Red Faction Guerrilla GeoMod 2.0 Physics (Tower & Lab)

This video is yet another attempt to open up gaming community eyes regarding NVIDIA PhysX and it's requirement to use GeForce card to hardware accelerate it.
This video is demonstrating environment destruction using only CPU based physics, based on Havok physics engine. Now i am aware that GeoMod 2.0 engine is not perfect, but you'll see it's damn near perfection. And you don't need an extra graphic card to enjoy it. All you need is CPU that you already have.

Highlights:
- large number of physics affected debris after explosion
- structure integrity failure and collapse based on integrity failure
- collision system
- destruction of secondary building due to collision

I'm a total sucker for GeoMod 2.0 and i can't wait to see what they'll bring up in Red Faction Armageddon. I hope it will feature even more advanced GeoMod 3.0. When the game is released, i'll test it out for sure!

Game: Red Faction Guerrilla
Game engine: GeoMod 2.0
Physics engine: Havok
Hardware used: Core i7 920 & Radeon HD5850

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• destruction
• physics
• physx
• geomod
• video
• game

[rejzor]

In some games you explicitly need it. In others it works but is intentionally crippled by running on just one CPU core. I've done a test with Mirror's Edge. Software PhysX and it was running the same (slow) on E5200 @ 3,7GHz (dual core) and now on Core i7 920 @ 4GHz (quad core with 8 threads). Just because it was intentionally coded in a way that you can't run it smoothly on CPU even though i'm quie sure i could get a pretty decent performance on Core i7...

[alkafrazin]

nVidia PhysX is, and was, as Ageia PhysX, primarily targeted at large scale precision particle and cloth physics, such as interactive smoke, cloth, water, and wind effects.

It has absolutely nothing to do with rigid body physics.

I really wish people would smarten up and realize that GPU accelerated physics could greatly improve gaming as a whole, and are not some new replacement for oldschool CPU based physics. They are made to work together.

[gmanhell94]

Now if we can implent this into battlefied

[TheEffectPerson]

@Spyker619 im getting....sleepy.....Curse you Morpheus.......

[ComradeMagnum]

@Spyker619 I pick the yellow pill

[Spyker619]

@ComradeMagnum I'm gonna go Morpheus on you, and tell you that you can believe, whatever you want to believe.

[ComradeMagnum]

@Spyker619 probably, BUT I CAN MAKE EXCUSES, CAN'T I!?!?!? T_T

[Spyker619]

@ComradeMagnum I think it's just bad programming.

[ComradeMagnum]

@Spyker619 remember that this is mars. their gravity is several times weaker than that of earth. Things that would be considered structurally unstable on earth would be fine on mars. (though that doesn't explain why everything still falls at the speed most would see on earth)

[dcshoeco2746]

crysis 2