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Originally Posted by swiss
Actually the point was: If you want to play Crysis2 - you'll have to get an Nvidia.
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No, it is not. It's what nVidia would like to tell you.
As the article says, Crysis2 will be
optimized for nVidia and support PhysX, but that doesn't mean it won't run on ATI/AMD-cards. Actually PhysX also runs on ATI/AMD-cards, with no noteable performance-loss - well, it official ran, until nVidia decided to include a blocking routine that deactivated PhysX as soon as an ATI/AMD-card was detected in the PC....
Needless to say, that was a futile attempt. A driver-patch is available on many sites on the internet.
But even if it wasn't, as it was stated here a lot of times: PhysX is used primarily for graphical effects. It's not rendering the fundamental physics-engine of the game. Even the money nVidia gave EA, it wouldn't be a compensation for the loss of potential sales - how many idiots would buy a 400$ nVidia-card for a 27$ game? LOL
09-14-2010, 01:39 PM
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