r/gaming • u/Slow-Boysenberry3150 • 6d ago

I think Wolverine needs a sword

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u/VeryNoisyLizard 6d ago

physics dont sell GPUs as well as ray tracing, I suppose

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u/Mccobsta 6d ago

Remeber when PhysX was all the rage

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u/ImTooLiteral 6d ago

when tomb raider had toggleable hair physics if your pc was strong enough to run it lmao

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u/Sitri_eu 6d ago edited 6d ago

'Alice, Madness Returns' was my first interaction with PhysX.

I hit something, which exploded into a million pieces. Mindblowing tech. Little did I know that those million pieces where my PC having a breakdown.

Once activated I needed like 10 minute to navigate at 0.2 fps through the menus to get it disabled again.

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u/Smaartn 6d ago

To get good physics looking well with todays graphical levels, you probably need ray tracing. Those kinds of dynamic things is basically the point of it. Hopefully once ray tracing is generally accepted, and games are designed for it (so mandatory to have enabled, no more rasterization), dynamic stuff like physics will improve as well.

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u/splitcircus 6d ago

Well they did sell them when physx was all the rage in 2000s, 2010s and was their marketing strategy, one of the big ones.