Guest RJK Posted April 30, 2008 Posted April 30, 2008 Does anyone know anything about this. It was installed into a Packard Bell iXtreme 6052 / XP Home ed. i.e. there was an icon for it in control Panel. Glancing through :- http://www.ageia.com/physx/faqs.html#3 ....it seems to be a software accelerator / part of a game called Unreal Tournement 3, which appears to make use of some hardware ...if installed ? Well UT3 was in there, I uninstalled it. PCI slots are all empty / the machine is using onboard SiS 650 graphics chip. I'm guessing it invited itself into this machine when UT3 was installed ? Was there any benefit to having it in there, even though the "partner" PhysX chip was never in there ? ....have just uninstalled it, ...I wonder what junk that left behind ? any info. appreciated. regards, Richard
Guest sgopus Posted April 30, 2008 Posted April 30, 2008 RE: ageia PhysX ? Some software require the drivers without the actual chip being installed, I have one that is like that "RJK" wrote: > Does anyone know anything about this. It was installed into a Packard Bell > iXtreme 6052 / XP Home ed. i.e. there was an icon for it in control Panel. > Glancing through :- > http://www.ageia.com/physx/faqs.html#3 > ....it seems to be a software accelerator / part of a game called Unreal > Tournement 3, which appears to make use of some hardware ...if installed ? > Well UT3 was in there, I uninstalled it. PCI slots are all empty / the > machine is using onboard SiS 650 graphics chip. > I'm guessing it invited itself into this machine when UT3 was installed ? > Was there any benefit to having it in there, even though the "partner" PhysX > chip was never in there ? > > ....have just uninstalled it, ...I wonder what junk that left behind ? > any info. appreciated. > > regards, Richard > > > >
Guest RJK Posted May 1, 2008 Posted May 1, 2008 Re: ageia PhysX ? Thanks, I suspected that, though I have unisntalled UT3 now. regards, Richard "sgopus" <sgopus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:761DF5E5-03AB-4548-8EEF-CD8C91CB17CD@microsoft.com... > Some software require the drivers without the actual chip being installed, > I > have one that is like that > > "RJK" wrote: > >> Does anyone know anything about this. It was installed into a Packard >> Bell >> iXtreme 6052 / XP Home ed. i.e. there was an icon for it in control >> Panel. >> Glancing through :- >> http://www.ageia.com/physx/faqs.html#3 >> ....it seems to be a software accelerator / part of a game called Unreal >> Tournement 3, which appears to make use of some hardware ...if installed >> ? >> Well UT3 was in there, I uninstalled it. PCI slots are all empty / the >> machine is using onboard SiS 650 graphics chip. >> I'm guessing it invited itself into this machine when UT3 was installed ? >> Was there any benefit to having it in there, even though the "partner" >> PhysX >> chip was never in there ? >> >> ....have just uninstalled it, ...I wonder what junk that left behind ? >> any info. appreciated. >> >> regards, Richard >> >> >> >>
Guest RJK Posted June 1, 2008 Posted June 1, 2008 Re: ageia PhysX ? ....after lots of tweaking, to retain a minimum 15 fps, so as to keep the darned game - UT3/patched to 1.2, and to have at least the beginnings of a semblance of "responsiveness," (on this old "was a Celeron 2.6 256mb ddr266 with shared graphics" ! ..."now a little better - P4 2.5ghz, 768mb ddr266 and agp nVidia 6200 ...and annoyingly slow 5,400 rpm Samsung "spin*something or other hd that Packard Bell ought to be ashamed of themselves for ever having sold - even at that time - iXtreme 6052 !!! ....so now with the minimum spec. 350mhz gpu, and texture and rendering etc up as high as it can go without degrading fps to less that 15 to 20 fps, the game is sort of playable, and looks alittle better than DOS based DOOM from many years ago !!! I tried nTune, (not knowing much at all about overclocking), and increased the gpu core speed a little, the "test" showed okay but, after a reboot I got a scrambled picture - had to reboot in Safe mode, and unisntall nTune, and reinstall nVidia drivers (latest Forceware that supports 6200's), ...AND manually get rid of a couple of nTune entries left in registry "run" ....anyhow, ...if anyone could throw a few tips about gpu overclocking I would be grateful. The defaults frequencies for this 6200 are gpu 350mhz and memory 600mhz. Is there a realtionship between the two inasmuch as does the memory mhz have to be increased in some sort of proportion to an increase in gpu mhz ? I've glanced through some sites to try and pick up some tips, ..already spotted that the 6200's aren't really suited to overclocking. ....ps already fitted a copper Zalman VF-900 to it. regards, Richard "RJK" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%23SS9e8xqIHA.552@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Thanks, I suspected that, though I have unisntalled UT3 now. > > regards, Richard > > > "sgopus" <sgopus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:761DF5E5-03AB-4548-8EEF-CD8C91CB17CD@microsoft.com... >> Some software require the drivers without the actual chip being >> installed, I >> have one that is like that >> >> "RJK" wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know anything about this. It was installed into a Packard >>> Bell >>> iXtreme 6052 / XP Home ed. i.e. there was an icon for it in control >>> Panel. >>> Glancing through :- >>> http://www.ageia.com/physx/faqs.html#3 >>> ....it seems to be a software accelerator / part of a game called Unreal >>> Tournement 3, which appears to make use of some hardware ...if installed >>> ? >>> Well UT3 was in there, I uninstalled it. PCI slots are all empty / the >>> machine is using onboard SiS 650 graphics chip. >>> I'm guessing it invited itself into this machine when UT3 was installed >>> ? >>> Was there any benefit to having it in there, even though the "partner" >>> PhysX >>> chip was never in there ? >>> >>> ....have just uninstalled it, ...I wonder what junk that left behind ? >>> any info. appreciated. >>> >>> regards, Richard >>> >>> >>> >>> > >
Guest RJK Posted June 1, 2008 Posted June 1, 2008 Re: ageia PhysX ? ....reposted, ...didin't notice this one was so old ! regards, Richard
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