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<div>From what I've read, UT3 visuals will be no better or worse *out of the box* with a PhysX card. You have to download add-on maps and mods from Ageia that are made specifically to show off the power of the hardware (zillions of particles, big soft and squishy collisions, there's a whole slew of neat demos in the Ageia driver package that comes with the game on the Windoze side). Related to this list, PhysX cards lack linux drivers, of course. Ultimately, UT3 uses Ageia's Physics library through and through, but the game was targeted at people that lack a PhysX card. The engine is capable of taking advantage of one, that's all. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Interestingly, though the contrary has been stated a few times on this list and elsewhere, I am under the impression that servers do need to do physics calculations, for vehicles in particular. As such, a server would indeed need the Ageia library as much as a client does. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-Rob</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Dec 15, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Rick Page wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">This brings up an interesting question. I have not kept up with reading all about the PhysX card. So some facts would be great, before it gets mixed in with speculations. Now my question. What happens on the client side for all of us that don't have the PhysX card? If someone online that has a card blows up a building and it comes tumbling down on top of you, and you don't have the card, do you still see a building wall coming down on you? I am sure that it just won't be as spectacular on your end as their end. <br>Rick<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 15, 2007 10:16 AM, Kingster <<a href="mailto:kingster@unrealplayground.com">kingster@unrealplayground.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Additionally, he says that PhysX would be client-side only... That would be<br>smart... Let's keep track of falling stuff that will kill you only on the<br>client! Sounds like a great place to start hacking to me.... I can see it <br>now... Skull-crusher bots.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Kingster<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Yannick Delwiche [mailto:<a href="mailto:yannick@i4games.eu">yannick@i4games.eu </a>]<br>Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 4:15 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:ut3@icculus.org">ut3@icculus.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [ut3] LINUX CLIENT RELEASE DATE - OFFICIAL<br><br>Furthermore, he also seems to miss the fact that Apache can be run on <br>Windows servers. So these graphs are pretty useless.<br><br>Bensch Blaser a écrit :<br>> While this guy might be accurate about Gamespy causing the holdup, he<br>> clearly has no idea what the difference between Unix based, and <br>> unix-like is. Linux is not Unix based. It might be a derivate of Minix,<br>> which you might call Unix based, but it's still a derivate. And that<br>> might also be why I don't think we're ever going to run the Linux ded <br>> server on OS X natively. Because OS X IS Unix based.<br>><br>> Anyhow, all this speculation doesn't change a thing.<br>> However, I'd like to have an update on the Mac client version. Ryan?<br>> <br>> Bensch<br>><br>> On 14.12.2007, at 22:48, Pierce Ward wrote:<br>><br>>> *SPECULATION* <a href="http://www.prounreal.com/?t=73341&f=180" target="_blank">http://www.prounreal.com/?t=73341&f=180 </a> *SPECULATION*<br><br><br>---<br>To unsubscribe, send a blank email to <a href="mailto:ut3-unsubscribe@icculus.org">ut3-unsubscribe@icculus.org</a><br>Mailing list archives: <a href="http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?64" target="_blank"> http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?64</a><br><br><br>---<br>To unsubscribe, send a blank email to <a href="mailto:ut3-unsubscribe@icculus.org">ut3-unsubscribe@icculus.org</a><br>Mailing list archives: <a href="http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?64" target="_blank"> http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?64</a><br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>