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Dark Physics & Dark A.I. & Dark Dynamix / How to know if the PhysX is installed ?

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Eduardo Henrique
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Hi,
I want to make a test program for joysticks. I whant to say wich model of joy, teste, wich model of video board and do a score. And say if have PhysX installed...
Its a good test.. See on:
www.bit9.com.br/TesteJoy.exe
Have any function thats return if the PhysX is installed ????
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Eduardo.

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DJ Chena
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PHYSX()

Used to determine if the PhysX PPU is available.

Syntax

Return Integer=PHYSX()

Returns

returns a value of 1 when the PPU is present and 0 when not

Description

This command is used to determine if the PhysX PPU is present on the computer. If it is then you can take advantages of its capabilities and call phy start and use a hardware scene.

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DJ Chena
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well, maybe PHYSX() is used to determine if your graphic card support PhysX, not if PhysX (Driver) is installed.

I don't know any command to determine if PhysX Driver is installed.

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Duke E
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Seems like driver detection is hardcoded in to the exe file.

If you don't have any PhysX drivers installed the exe closes and opens the default browser and sends you to "http://www.ageia.com/physx/drivers.html"

I was figuring binary editing on the exe replacing the above URL with your own html page in the local dir where you can explain why the program is not running and send people to the correct download site. The Aegia URL is not valid anymore so you will get a 404 on NVidias site instead.

Haven't gotten to it yet though so I am not sure it will work.
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HowDo
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if the driver is not installed your code will send you to the Nvidia site to find it.

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Eduardo Henrique
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Posted: 8th Apr 2009 16:01
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I believe that Its a sugestion to Dark Physx.

Im making a Joystick test, thats says the video board name and performance (by FPS), and want to say if the system have PhysX. If yes test it.
Today if I put a button to test physx and the computer dont have apear that extrange error (a broken link).

www.bit9.com.br/TesteJoy.exe

Eduardo.

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kaedroho
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Im sure that PhysX is in the registry somewhere. Just look for an item which has the PhysX version on it.

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Eduardo Henrique
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Perfect, kaedroho,
Its works.

PhyVer=get registry("SOFTWARE\AGEIA Technologies","PhysX Version")

Very thanks !
Eduardo.

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