Guest victoryo Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 I run windows vista home premium 86x with the latest geforce drivers off this site :) Everything runs fine with my 8600M GS and also the demo's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yakuza Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 I have the same problem as the member Adolfotregosa. How do you go? Sorry Google Translation:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Marley Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 I am not sure why you have this problem, but you should try the 3DMark Vantage Physics test. When I compared the CPU ops with PhysX off and on, it was 5 and 25, respectively. Quite a difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yakuza Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 Ok. I have done it. I have the driver 177.39 64bit and the Physx 9.07.18 installed. It also works with 3dmarkVantage06 33OPS and cpu score 9043rd Super. But with the drivers 177.79 64bit remains the black image in 3dmarkvantage06 physx test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hannes The Hun Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 on my XPS M1530 running XP 32bit, the 177.79 geforce drivers allow me to use PhysX GPU support with this PhysX driver on my 8600 GT. it doesn't matter if the panel shows "no nvidia PhysX processor installed" as this only means no ageia add-on card/coprocessor is found. everything's alright as long as you can select the "GeForce PhysX" hardware device on the other screen. just look on your CPU and GPU load when starting the demos: with geForce PhysX enabled, your GPU frequencies should go up to the max, while "No Acceleration" gives you maximum CPU load and only moderate GPU load. of course, if you have a really fast CPU, you won't notice any difference in speed while running the demos with the different settings. alas, I can't give any hints for Vista since I hate this OS :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wee Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 Does the 177.66 driver support physx? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Marley Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 It appears to be a hit-and-miss thing. You could try it, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolcop06 Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 it says GeForce PhysX is enabled, but when i try to play a demo i get htis error message "Direct X9.0 installed (589824). Requires 9.0c (October 2006) or later." But in my Nvidia Control Panel says i have Direct X 10.0... does anyone know whats going on here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eXeC Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 I had the same problem, my vista doesnt had the newest direct-driver. Just download the DirectX9 driver http://www.chip.de/downloads/DirectX_13002926.html and it will work. greetZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Marley Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 It would be better to download this file directly from Microsoft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 For those who works, do you find any difference in game before and after activate the physx? I have a 8600m GT and currently using the 177.66 as well, the physx driver did work but I don't see any differences having it or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Marley Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 No, but this is because I have no games that use PhysX. I do notice quite an improvement in 3Dmark Vantage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compusmurf Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 I have 1 game that's PhysX enabled. The ONLY thing I've noticed is it seems a bit less "laggy" in areas with alot of movement and nothing more. I can't quite put my finger on the truth. It "could" just be wishful thinking on my part. :) Some say the psychological value is the important part. hahahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Got 100 points more on 3DMark Vantage with my Quadro FX 1600M, it's about 6%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covert Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 (edited) IF THE PHYSX DEMOS ARE WORKING THEN YOU ARE USING ACCELERATION JUST FYI! As some of you have noticed it says "No AGEIA PHYSX INSTALLED" But below it says "PhysX Processor" That means you don't have the AGEIA processor, but it is using your video card for acceleration! It IS working! if it did not detect you had an nVidia card it would not let you use acceleration! What cannot be done on the video card (e.g. too much load on the GPU from some video intesive program) will be moved to your CPU instead, very likely if you don't have SLi. Edited August 7, 2008 by Covert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted August 8, 2008 Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 erm i have 8800mgtxsli and my vista is on 177.79 and the geforce physx option is available and it works but on xp wif 175.32 the option is greyed out.. is it becos of the driver version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted August 8, 2008 Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 i have a 9500M GS with 174.++ but it can't work with the physX? can anyone tell me where to update latest laptop driver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nasu Posted August 8, 2008 Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 OMG JUST READ PREVIOUS POSTS !!!! DOWNLOAD 177.79 !!!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted August 8, 2008 Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 177.79 gives poor performance for me. dont type as if ur so smart. OMG JUST READ THE PREVIOUS POSTS why not you try giving suggestions or answering the questions instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackovich Posted August 8, 2008 Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 (edited) Hi all! :) This is a quite interesting driver. It has changed my "AGEIA PhysX" application to "NIVIDIA PhysX", but it's OK it doesn't matter. But the problem is that I can't select "AGEIA PhysX" in the settings (because I do have an PPU card AGEIA PhysX as explained in my profile): when I clicked on "apply", I had a error message that tell me that I have to run this application/this control panel as an administrator, otherwise it can't save my changes into the registry. Nevertheless, I do have administrator's rights (I can run any other application i want as an administrator)! So I tried everything but nothing work... that really sucks!, doesn't it? So, I was wondering if you guys would help me and tell me how to run this control panel as an adminsitrator! PS: I use Windows Vista Ultimate - 32 bits. PSS: I'm french, so please use an simple language and I apologize for any mistakes I would have done^^ Edited August 8, 2008 by Mackovich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xelcius Posted August 8, 2008 Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 Can anyone help me with this? why it didn't show anything? :) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvalencia Posted August 8, 2008 Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 Hi all! :) This is a quite interesting driver. It has changed my "AGEIA PhysX" application to "NIVIDIA PhysX", but it's OK it doesn't matter. But the problem is that I can't select "AGEIA PhysX" in the settings (because I do have an PPU card AGEIA PhysX as explained in my profile): when I clicked on "apply", I had a error message that tell me that I have to run this application/this control panel as an administrator, otherwise it can't save my changes into the registry. Nevertheless, I do have administrator's rights (I can run any other application i want as an administrator)! So I tried everything but nothing work... that really sucks!, doesn't it? So, I was wondering if you guys would help me and tell me how to run this control panel as an adminsitrator! PS: I use Windows Vista Ultimate - 32 bits. PSS: I'm french, so please use an simple language and I apologize for any mistakes I would have done^^ Create a shortcut to "PhysX.cpl" (e.g. can be found in "C:\Windows\" folder) and set it to "Run as administrator" (in "Advance Properties" window). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvalencia Posted August 8, 2008 Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 (edited) on my XPS M1530 running XP 32bit, the 177.79 geforce drivers allow me to use PhysX GPU support with this PhysX driver on my 8600 GT.it doesn't matter if the panel shows "no nvidia PhysX processor installed" as this only means no ageia add-on card/coprocessor is found. everything's alright as long as you can select the "GeForce PhysX" hardware device on the other screen. just look on your CPU and GPU load when starting the demos: with geForce PhysX enabled, your GPU frequencies should go up to the max, while "No Acceleration" gives you maximum CPU load and only moderate GPU load. of course, if you have a really fast CPU, you won't notice any difference in speed while running the demos with the different settings. alas, I can't give any hints for Vista since I hate this OS :) You could download PhysX SDK 2.8.1 and run PhysX test applications. Some test applications shows (in text e.g. "hardware" or "software") if the PhysX functions being accelerated by hardware (e.g. PPU or GPU) or by software (e.g. CPU). Edited August 8, 2008 by rvalencia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 on my XPS M1530 running XP 32bit, the 177.79 geforce drivers allow me to use PhysX GPU support with this PhysX driver on my 8600 GT.it doesn't matter if the panel shows "no nvidia PhysX processor installed" as this only means no ageia add-on card/coprocessor is found. everything's alright as long as you can select the "GeForce PhysX" hardware device on the other screen. just look on your CPU and GPU load when starting the demos: with geForce PhysX enabled, your GPU frequencies should go up to the max, while "No Acceleration" gives you maximum CPU load and only moderate GPU load. of course, if you have a really fast CPU, you won't notice any difference in speed while running the demos with the different settings. alas, I can't give any hints for Vista since I hate this OS :) i having the same problem too~ haiz... >.< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest huepper Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 Hi there, it runs on y Acer 8920G !!! (9500 GS GFX) In GRAW2 i can activate PhysX very high. :) Greetz huepper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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