Aegia's PhysX API has a software mode that can do most but not all of the physics calculations (no cloth, fluid dynamics, etc, but it can do the collisions, particles, and whatnot).
Is it possible to have DP not require PhysX hardware to be present except for things that the API can't do in software?
I ask because there's a growing consensus of "Why should we pay $200 for a physics card when we have quadcore CPUs that have 4 logical CPUs per core, and all running at 4ghz?". I know that's a bit of an exageration but it's not far off from what someone used to criticize me when I told him that I bought a PhysX card to play around with on DBPro.
Another reason I ask is because when I installed my PhysX card, it was defective. I RMA'ed it with the manufacturer, but the factory sent it out without putting my apartment number on the box, and now it's been sent back and they're being a pain about sending it back out. It's not my fault the apartment number's not on there, it's clearly on the RMA form they gave me that I printed out. So they have the apartment number on their computers and in the RMA form in the box, so wtf?
It's been a month now and the new card should get here tomarrow, but it would've been nice if DP weren't griping at me every time I Try to run a compiled EXE. All I really want to use DP for is the collisions.
Nothing I say is intended to be rude. My autism means that I do not know what is rude and what isn't rude. I apologize if I seem rude. It is not my intention.
