NVIDIA embraces Open Source, offering PhysX to ATI
Nvidia has scored some brownie points with the open source crowd by offering PhysX support to AMD/ATI and for that matter, any other company who wants to use PhysX’s realtime physics engine. Looking to build upon PhysX’s middleware platform, Nvidia is offering PhysX’s API freely to anyone who wants it. This will no doubt encourage game developers to use the physics engine in their games, making it more widely used in future titles. Nvidia has already scored points with those who have bought GeForce 8 series video cards, by planning on a future release of free PhysX GeForce 8 drivers that will enable the cards to utilize the realtime physics of PhysX without having to buy new hardware.
PhysX is a proprietary real time physics engine middleware developed by AGEIA. They were bought by Nvidia earlier in the year.
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