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AnthonyW86 on 13 April 2013
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Shinobi-san said:
Pemalite said:
Shinobi-san said:

I don't get why people are so quick to call this PR bullshit.

The reality is, there are almost no games out there that fully utilize high end GPU's. There must be about a handful of games that do and have amazing physics (not that i can name 1 off the top of head, and thats coming from a PC gamer).

You can have all the gpu power in the world, but it really doesnt matter if no games are built for it. Unless you using that power for non gaming tasks.

So this guys statement stands.


Play Borderlands 2 on an nVidia graphics card with PhysX enabled. It looks brilliant. Batman ain't to bad either. :)
Those games weren't really "built" for it as the lead platforms for those games were targeted with consoles in mind.

I've played both batman games on PC with physx enabled, as well as Mafia 2. I wouldnt say either had a major impact.

I've seen quite a bit of videos on Borderlands 2 for PC with physx enabled, and it looks good plus theres added effects i think? Again nothing amazing.

Dev's don't really use physx that much or to its full potential, simply because games are built for console. And theres the 40% (i think?) of pc gamers who have AMD cards who wont get that improvement.

This is exactly my point though.

Physics on ps4 will be on an entirely new level though, and will impact gameplay like we have never seen before. Even on the highest end pc all that enabling physx does is add some eyecandy, it can't really be part of the gameplay because not every pc supports Physx or is powerfull enough to handle it. All PS4's will have the same ability to handle physics calculations and the speed of communication between cpu and gpu because of the one chip design is unrivaled even on PC.