Mafia II PhysX Trailer

Hardware accelerated PhysX effects showcase in upcoming Mafia II title. This video is accompanying launch of new GTX480/470 GPUs from Nvidia.

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Mafia II - GPU PhysX profile

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Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Nvidia
• GPU
• PhysX
• Mafia
• II
• Physics
• GTX480
• GTX470

[HeistSpaggiari]

@H2hTrifid

you do realize that you cannot compare Havok, which is a physics engine (software) to PhysX, which is hardware in the terms with which you are trying to compare them. Saying that PhysX is better than Havok (or vice versa) in terms of physics engine performance is like saying that my car is better than your bike in terms of internal combustion performance, or that oranges are better than shoes in terms of nutrition.

[HeistSpaggiari]

@pelihullu69

Are you serious with that comment? Havok is a Physics engine, PhysX is piece of hardware for enhancing the performance of a physics engine. It is entirely possible to have a Havok-based game run with the help of a nVidia PhysX card. Do you know what that would do? It would allow the Havok engine to tax the PhysX card more than your system's processor, allowing for better physics effects without wasting cpu time. Your comment is ridiculous; you've compared two entirely diff. things.

[DJsharp707]

@HeistSpaggiari thumbs up ur own comment much?

[Barderoth]

they could have just made the game on the source engine. there you go. a perfectly good physics engine. that way, the physics carries over to consoles. why did they not think of that?

[FRURMELLL]

@PhoenixBird1983 What the heck are you saying? Please think about it.

GAMES can have graphics. Nvidia and ATI can't. You are probably talking about performance level. And obviously this isn't true: ATI will release the 6970 which is way better than anything out there. Oh and the 5970 toxic still kicks nvidia's asses!

[FRURMELLL]

I HATE NVIDIA! You can't run ATI for graphics and Nvidia for physics anymore. WHY?! If I buy a nVidia card for physics, they FUCKING HAVE THEIR MONEY! Also, CPU physx is a mess: it uses ancient coding and uses only 1 cpu core!

[TerribleTony]

Just finished this game. Sure it is a showcase for PhysX but thats about it as a game it is tedoious, far too much video imbedded and the gameplay reminded me of games I was playing ten years ago, very one dimensional. IMO you concentrated too much on the hardware and PhysX and the gameplay suffered because of it. As a showcase for PhysX it works but as a game???????

[Granpire]

I had nothing against Nvidia, until they took this awesome technology and made it exclusively usable on Nvidia cards. However, I can see that there are modified drivers to use it on ATI cards, that is, when two are present.

[Roflbrowser]

@bigboss25262 For physx? why would you switch to nvidia just for PHYSX?

I mean if your card is old, then sure, upgrade but don't choose nVidia for PHYSX I mean come on...

This coming from an nvidia fanboy, proud owner of a 8800gt then a gtx 460.

[bigboss25262]

Man, i want to be able to enable Physx in my games so bad... Time to switch to Nvidia.

[NotoriousBIG1997]

@HeistSpaggiari You are a well educated man/woman