Among various bug-fixes, this version also features support for GPU acceleration on Linux platform (CUDA-capable devices only) and reworked documentation.
Previously it was done on the CPU for Linux gamers which would be a lot slower.
This really excites me as the effect PhysX has in the Borderlands series is pretty cool. Hopefully support will be enable within Borderlands 2 shortly and perhaps we'll have launch day support for Borderlands the pre-sequel.
The updated PhysX SDk can be found here. You can also see the official changelog here.
What are your thoughts?
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In my country only a few percents of customers have money to buy windows. I think, you understand, what i want to say....
Linux is interesting thing. Linux give opportunities, that windows can`t give (installing program with only one string of code using "sudo apt-get install" for example).
About open source. Noveau driver is bad driver because it open source. It has bad perfomance. I do not see a reason to use it. And I do not understand, why people don`t use proprietary drivers. They paid for videocard, so they get support with this driver.
And, as I say, if you like free ideology, why do you buy games? they are not free, they are not open source.
About steam os - there were promised, that their drivers will work faster, that windows.
Hello Ivan.
AMD refused to use CUDA, and it's seems normal for me.
If AMD used a proprietary software from a competing company for their hardware, they would have no control on the performances and stability.
You don't know which APIs is best, and I tell you I know. OpenCL is best.
Because it is 'libre'. Performance isn't the more important point.
It is nVidia, that refused to use libre stantards, and prefered to make something by themself, for themself. Also OpenCL can perfectly be compilated for GNU/Linux. The thing is that developpers don't really care about physics.
CUDA is something bad for all users that want to use GPGPU for any purpose.
Firstly because such a closed format can't take off. It can't be popularized because it is anecdotic for developper, require more work, and work for only half of costumers. Sort of lost of time. And also sort of blackmail : play with our cards to have the complete experience.
Secondly because it is a try to impose them on the market. And when the market is not equilibrated, price and offers are bad for costumers.
French economists say "concurrence pure et parfaite" which mean pure and perfect competition, and which is a paradigm of market where they would be plenty of little companys in competition. We only got 2 company on the video card market(for gaming), if furthermore one is much bigger than the other, the market will be horrible for costumers.
Finally, if you truly like the ideology of GNU/Linux, I beg you to say GNU/Linux, and not just Linux. GNU is precisely the ideologic part of GNU/Linux systems.
If you had not seen it yet, watch this brief talk about "libre" software :
View video on youtube.com
Nowadays, you have more games, more software, better drivers(more stable, more efficient, that support multi gpu between others things), installation of software is very simple, maybe not as fast as on GNU/Linux with the exact name of the package but easy.
More peripherics run on it also. For exemple Mad catz RAT 7 mouse is a pain in the ass to configure it on GNU/Linux. It is also more difficult to have sound cards that work easily on GNU/linux.
etc.
Maybe you can find very few advantages for GNU/Linux for a nowaday gamer. But those advantages are ridiculous in front of the ton of argument in favor of M$ Windows.
For the rest of your comment, you can find my answer in the video i posted above.
Freedom > performance.
And If for you, Performance > Freedom, then you should stay on windows.
I want to add that CUDA isn't a better "performing" API than OpenCL.
It's just an API. Unless not completely broken (which OpenCL isn't),
the API does not affect performance much.
Leaving that aside, the APIs don't even differ that much:
Porting CUDA Applications to OpenCL
The implementation (also the hardware, ofc) is what matters to the performance.
IMHO there is no valid reason why Nvidia couldn't make OpenCL perform as good
on their hardware as CUDA currently does.
You understood nothing of the speech of Richard Stallman, or you just didn't listened it.
All programm must be free (for free conception), but almost all games are not free, and steam is not GNU. So, what are you doing on gaming site?
And still, from philosophy point of view, linux users are not completely free, because they have restrictions of GNU.
But since you can read the source code of GNU programs and modify them however you wish, it follows up that obviously GNU==Freedom.
Teodosio answered in part to your comment. I'll add that closed source games damage the freedom of users, but at least it protect to creation of developpers. Sort of blessing in disguise. So I accept it, even if i would prefer libre games.
But for PhysX is is different, it provide very few adventages that only few will be able to appreciate for, huge disadventages for all users and costumers.
Read my posts above for explanation.
At first you show yourself as uncompromise fighter for freedom. Now you show some compromise. Interesting.
About PhysX.
I can turn on PhysX on Windows and watch cool effects. I don`t see a reasons, why turning on PhysX on Linux is disadventages? I am gamer, not programist, not owner of AMD. So I`m not interesting in changing code of PhysX and other stuff. But I am interesting in having of PhysX effect on Linux.
Teodosio
With that philosophy you can`t use proprietary because of your inner restrictions (only GNU). And restriction does`t give you freedom. So your actions are not truly free. From philosophy point of view.
From techical point of view I can`t read the source code of GNU programs and modify them, because I
1. don`t know how to do it.
2. don`t see a reason to do it.
So conception of free-only software is not my conception. My conception is free-to-choose: use free or use non-free.
It look obvious to my eyes now that english is not your mother tongue.
Also I'll bet my arm that you're under eighteen, your avatar is a big hint.
I'm sorry to tell you that, but I tried as long as I can to be gentle, comprehensive and explain my of view, so now I've to tell you that you're only here to have reason, and you DON'T want to understand what WE are telling you.
Read all the conversation again, rewatch the videos of Mr Stallman, try to undersand if it is what you really want, but I can't do anything more than I already did.