physx - cpu

r00tr00t Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11173Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">weird message in console / loading screen</div>I am talking about huge letters on top of the screen.

Is this part of the images themselves, or something hardcoded?

I have made sure in NVIDIA control panel that PhysX is enabled by default, but this still says CPU.
Maybe I misunderstand the meaning, can I enable PhysX on GPU? (I have Quattro 1000M - should be able to support it, and the option is in control panel, as I mentioned).
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  • AngeluszAngelusz Harmonic entropist Join Date: 2003-07-10 Member: 18072Members, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester
    What exactly is the problem?

    If it's something you see, can you please post a screenshot? Also, tell us what your console shows.
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  • r00tr00t Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11173Members
    Sorry, I really tried to find anything related to physx using forum search, but googling for "nvidia physx status overlays" actually found a thread in this forum.
    <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=116861" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index....howtopic=116861</a>
    I didn't realize it was nvidia's overlay - looked too much like in-game. That's until FRAPS couldn't take the screenshot of it.


    The real question is, is there any way to enable physx on GPU? I have nvidia driver 296.20 and installed latest available physx from <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.12.0613-driver.html" target="_blank">http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.12.0613-driver.html</a> - it says it only supports v300+ drivers (but not quite clear - maybe only for 2.8.4?). I have enabled CUDA in settings (well, that's default).
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  • r00tr00t Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11173Members
    Installed latest available drivers for my card (beta 300) - no change
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  • ObraxisObraxis Subnautica Animator & Generalist, NS2 Person Join Date: 2004-07-24 Member: 30071Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Silver, WC 2013 - Supporter, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    We really need a screengrab to see what is actually going on. NS2 doesnt use GPU for physx calculations, it uses the CPU so that it works on both ATi and Nvidia cards.
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  • r00tr00t Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11173Members
    Again, it was just nvidia's overlay that I didn't know about. I can't even screengrab it since it's an overlay from driver.

    Ok, yes, I understand about ATI, but I thought this was transparent to the developer - i.e. enabling hardware acceleration of physx can be turned on/off by customers with no change of code. Is it just to ease testing for now? Just trying to push my relatively slow computer to get better perf.
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