PhysX made the frame rate choppy and uncomfortable even on the 'Normal' setting in Batman; that was with a GTX260 @ 1920x1200, max settings. It's just not really acceptable for a few bits of fluttering paper. Installed a 5850 yesterday and won't be looking back.
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2x8800GTS 640MB In Sli = What single card solution?
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PhysX made the frame rate choppy and uncomfortable even on the 'Normal' setting in Batman; that was with a GTX260 @ 1920x1200, max settings. It's just not really acceptable for a few bits of fluttering paper. Installed a 5850 yesterday and won't be looking back.
No problems with framerate here - 2048x res, everything including physx on max, lots of AA... fraps showed it above 50fps most of the time - generally hard pegged against the limit.
The only time I saw problems was if I stayed in those "old" sections with the aqeducts/brick towers for too long (more than 20-30 minutes) - only really noticed it when I went back to do old puzzles - think it was due to the physx falling rubble not being cleared properly and building up a "backlog" after awhile.
EDIT: Oh just realised thats due to the 190 series drivers - I put on to test mid way through playing - I should go back to the 186.18s again - was no slowdown at all with those.
The only time I saw problems was if I stayed in those "old" sections with the aqeducts/brick towers for too long (more than 20-30 minutes) - only really noticed it when I went back to do old puzzles - think it was due to the physx falling rubble not being cleared properly and building up a "backlog" after awhile.
EDIT: Oh just realised thats due to the 190 series drivers - I put on to test mid way through playing - I should go back to the 186.18s again - was no slowdown at all with those.
Caporegime
Yeah the games need to run at about 100+ frames before you can use PhysX, as the cards take about a 30 frame hit with it on, so be no good in a game like Crysis, as if you can't break 50 in that with no PhysX, then when you turn it on, you're gona be down to 20.
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Considering you completely missed the other 2 PC's in his sig running nVidia cards, I suggest you go for a 5800 series card. Obviously your eyes do not pick up details, so the little value PhysX brings would be wasted on you
Yeah the games need to run at about 100+ frames before you can use PhysX, as the cards take about a 30 frame hit with it on, so be no good in a game like Crysis, as if you can't break 50 in that with no PhysX, then when you turn it on, you're gona be down to 20.
I think those numbers are slightly exagerated
But this is one reason I like SLI + PhysX - a lot of the time neither card is running above 70% load so theres plenty of space to run physx work before it starts to touch the framerate at all.
Caporegime
Theres a review posted in here somewhere, shows the 275/285 running Mirrors Edge with and without PhsyX, with PhsyX on, the 285 dropped about 26 frames, the 275 dropped about 30, now thats some hit for some waving flags. 
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Soldato
Batman with the physx is fine, runs really smooth and looks stunning, dunno what people are going on about up there tbh 
Soldato
I don't own a 5870, my main rig has a 260, and I actually picked up another for 260 SLi, so well done
Waiting for a 5870 2gb for 6 screens.
Enjoy PhysX
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Or you could do what I have just done. Have a 5850 running at 950/1250 with a gtx260 for the physx.
Best of both worlds.
have nvidia stopped people running an ati and nvdia GPU , from a driver version number ?
Batman with the physx is fine, runs really smooth and looks stunning, dunno what people are going on about up there tbh
Calling me a liar then
It ran like arse, shouldn't do, no idea why, end of
Not worth the hassle given how much of a total marketing gimmick PhysX is anyway.
And I'm supposed prefer Nvidia...
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Soldato
Calling me a liar then
It runs like arse, shouldn't do, no idea why, end of
Not worth the hassle given how much of a total marketing gimmick PhysX is anyway.
And I'm supposed to like Nvidia...
Grow up, I didnt even quote you (in my previous post, lol)
Grow up, I didnt even quote you (in my previous post, lol)
No, you inferred. Granted it could have been a driver issue and I didn't look into sorting it out, but that just shows how worthless I felt the PhysX effects were.
Regardless, as for the original question, two G80 core 8800GTSs should be around as fast as a GTX260, given that a 9800GX2 which ran two G92 core 8800GTSs was a bit higher than that.
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They did from 186. However theres a patch available whcih switches it back on
lol
nice one.
Soldato
Calling me a liar then?
Awesome Thread!
Yes. Yes I am. You said just the other day you could fly.
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