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PhysX and Linux question

Started by Prune Mar 9, 2009 at 6:32 PM 0 replies 550+ views
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Prune
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Since there's no PhysX system software, just the SDK, available for Linux, as opposed to Windows, where there are both, does that mean that PhysX on Linux won't be accelerated by the graphics card and will run purely on the CPU? Or is the system software a driver only for the PPU, not the GPU, and thus the GPU can be used by just using the SDK?
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Original post by Prune
Since there's no PhysX system software, just the SDK, available for Linux, as opposed to Windows, where there are both, does that mean that PhysX on Linux won't be accelerated by the graphics card and will run purely on the CPU? Or is the system software a driver only for the PPU, not the GPU, and thus the GPU can be used by just using the SDK?


I would assume that the necessary system software is included in the driver package for the graphics cards these days. (Though I'm stuck with an AMD/ATI card on my Linux laptop so I'm a bit out of touch with nvidias Linux drivers at the moment)
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