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Saturday, September 19, 2009

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PhysX has been added to the PC version of Batman with the v1.1 update. It does not ship with PhysX settings out of the box. Once installed you are provided several options for PhysX - Off, Normal, or High with various card recommendations.

The nVidia drivers allow you to change the PhysX settings - turning optimization on or off as well as the ability to choose which card handles the PhysX acceleration. I had thought offloading PhysX from my 2 x 285GTX2G cards working in SLi to the built-in 980a/780a would make things faster:

However, after applying the v1.1 w/ patch PhysX Batman, Normal PhysX was enabled. I was suddenly getting very low framerates (15fps). I turned on the "Show SLI Indicators" in the 3D settings menu so I could see how hard each of the video cards were working. They were both very low, indicating the cards were not working up to their ability, yet things were still slow. CPU usage hadn't spiked high enough to be a bottleneck and memory was free and clear.

It appeared having the PhysX on the older (and slower) chipset was slowing everything down. To test the theory I turned off PhysX and was getting framerates in the high 50s. It certainly was PhysX related.

I turned PhysX back on, normal setting and in the nVidia control panel I changed the setting to enable PhysX on the 285s instead of the 980a/780a. When I tried it again PhysX was visibily running, fallen leaves moving under your feet accompanied by smooth framerates between 55 to 60fps.

Based on this experience it appears that having PhysX enabled on an older chipsets may actually decrease performance over having PhysX enabled on the same video card(s) doing the graphics processing.

Here is a video of Batman running @ 2560 x 1600, Very High Detail, comparing PhysX - Normal to PhysX - High

Labels: games, games for windows, graphics, hardware, movie, screenshot, SLi

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Video will be updated - it cut me down to 16:9 so most of the leaf effects fell out of frame.

I'm also hoping for higher quality once I install the new codecs.

By Josh, at Saturday, September 19, 2009 8:22:00 PM

Posted link to PhysX forum:
http://forums.slizone.com/index.php?showtopic=33559&st=0

By Josh, at Sunday, September 20, 2009 9:48:00 AM

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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I kept hearing it in the trailer and couldn't get it out of my head so I made aringtone of the song from Pineapple Express.

Labels: movie, mp3, music, ringtone

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Monday, August 27, 2007

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I saw Stardust yesterday, had to get out of the house for a few hours while there was babyshowering going on for Nicole's sister's baby's stomach birth.
So yes - I went by myself, to the movies.

It wasn't anything like I thought it would be from the previews. There was adventure, there was magic, but no where near what they made it out to be. An epic battle between worlds, magic flooshing here and there - no, it was much more realistic, and I think it was better that way.

Just outside of England exists a magic world, there is only one portal, and it's heavily guarded... A young man ventures into it to collect a star, which instead of being a hunk of rock, turns out to be Claire Daines. Imagine his surprise!
So he throws her in chains and drags her with him.

Because everyone else is after the star for their own reasons - adventures abound, magic gets thrown about, and some amusing hijinks ensue.

It was a rather light, lovey, fantasy movie. A welcome change from the usual cookie cutter movies. I felt the cross-dressing Robert DiNero was a little unnecessary, it's seems there's a token homosexual ("wooftie") as of late, however I still give it 4 out of 5 stars. (HA! Stars!)

Labels: movie, review

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

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Eddie Izzard is acting... he's got facial hair, and is dressed like a man.
Watch the whole first episode of "The Riches"

Labels: movie, tv

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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

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Exclusive my ASS!
7.5 min preview of Spiderman 3
720p Quicktime HD

Labels: download, movie

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Thursday, February 22, 2007

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Check out the Crime Scenes - Apparently a new movie about a series of murders in 1989. I like the idea of a modern movie taking place in a realistic time period. One that I can actually watch and recognize the time period while getting all nostalgic.

I'm posting it because it's a superbly done flash site, and a good example of what can be done with modern web authoring.

Labels: flash, movie, web

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