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I am really new to programming in Dark basic and Dark Physics. I have an AGEIA Physx card and have run some of the demos (like water) and see that you can specify to run in hardware or software, but I don't really see a performance difference between the two.

Can someone show me a quick example of using a bunch of objects, say 2 or 3 thousand, running in software only mode then running in hardware mode so I can see what the fps is with or without?

Thank you.

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Mike Johnson
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Try the Dark Physics\Demos\PhysX\Bricks demo. The demo creates a large quantity of rigid body boxes that construct 4 walls. A further set of rigid bodies are created and dropped into the scene. Initially this process starts off in software and if you let it run to the end you will get a good idea of the typical frame rate. Once everything has collapsed press the space bar to switch to hardware mode. There will be a significant increase in the frame rate when running in hardware mode.
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Also be aware that once the physics is being handled by the PPU, you CPU is freed up for other tasks!

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Actually, that just made me think of something. When we quote minimum specs for our games now, it'll probably make sense to quote different specs with or without a PPU. Instead of just saying PPU supported, I suppose a game that needs a 3ghz CPU might only need a 2GHZ CPU with a PPU equiped.

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This is perfect. Thank you all very much.
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Actually I have a few questions about this demo. I bumbed the amount of bricks up to 2852, and in software I see that it starts running at about 11fps, but as the bricks begin to tumble the fps goes up to 23fps. Shouldn't this be the opposite? I would think that when the bricks are in motion, that the cpu would have to work harder to calculate the motion and collisions now going on vs. when they are just sitting there. When I run the same test in Hardware, I start at 23fps, and it stays there through out the whole simulation.

I also noticed that my cpu usage in software was on avg 58% and when running in Hardware was about 49%. That's nut much of a difference. Is there something in the code that may be incorrect? It doesnt look it's using the card to it's potential. Is it that there is a gpu limitation? I see that you can have a fps counter, is there a way to display how hard the ppu, gpu, and cpu are working?

Thank you for your time.
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I am also getting this error quite a bit when I try to run the hardware version.

PPU Assert: ASSERT [../../core/dma.c 364]: bytes < (64*KILO) called from 0x16a

Maybe my hardware isn't working properly.
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actualy when they are all just sitting in there stacks is when iit is going to use the most processing because of the proximatey when they start to pull away and fall apart they no longer have any vector forces between them that needs to be calculated.

think of the old archway and keystone construction method...the entire arch is held together by 1 wedge stone at the top because of this one stone the other stacks of stones do not fall therefore it has an effect across all of the stones beside and below it...if you remove the stone it's effect is no longer applied and the whole thing topples

Ink all over the screen...and dang it! Signature still does not show.
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That makes perfect sense.

soooo why such a low delta between hardware and software? Does it have something to do with the error message I posted? I also tried one of your other demos, "Rigid Bodis" It said in the notes that there should be a 30% difference. I got none. Started at 25 then dropped down to 12 on both cases.

Am I doing something wrong?
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Quote: "That makes perfect sense.

soooo why such a low delta between hardware and software? Does it have something to do with the error message I posted? I also tried one of your other demos, "Rigid Bodis" It said in the notes that there should be a 30% difference. I got none. Started at 25 then dropped down to 12 on both cases.

Am I doing something wrong?"


i think if people post their specs it is easier to understand this, maybe your graphic card cant keep up?

Scorched Skies is waiting,can you help

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Sure I am using a Shuttle with a dual core fx-62 with 2 gigs of ram and a 7900gt.

Is there any feature of dark physics that can display either the physics card usage, or especially the gpu performance so I can see where the bottle neck is?
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I am also getting several errors (crashes)when running in hardware, but I run tests on the Ageia PPU card, all chips appear to be OK. If I reset the card, demos like slime run fine for a couple of seconds then fail with "Internal Driver Error:" but no # after the colon.

Looks like the SDK might have some problems .......
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Also, just for the Record. "I LOVE DARK PHYSX" It's so easy to use and I love the stuff you can do with it.

Thank you for making it!!!
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