Mars GPU PhysX Benchmark

• June 23, 2011
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There is a pretty cool new PhysX GPU benchmark you can download from a new third person shooter being developed by Epic games in China called Mars.The game and demo implements GPU PhysX effects on a pretty large scale with everything from fluid, particles, cloth, smoke, and destruction. You can find out more info from Geforce.cn and the games website. The level in the benchmark is called Global Mission and shows off the entire range of PhysX effects that are implemented into the game. Check out a video of the demo below.

Download and more info:

http://www.geforce.cn/whats-new/articles/qqsm-benchmark
http://www.qqsm.com/v5/benchmark.html

Torque 3D Pacific Physics (PhysX) Demo and Video

• June 21, 2011
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This is a video of the new Torque 3D South Pacific Foliage and Physics demo that GarageGames has released to show off the new features of Torque 3D 1.1. The demo is a tropical island you can run around and play around with the different PhysX features that you could implement into a game with Torque 3D. It has some pretty cool PhysX objects you can destroy and fluid physics for the water that can float and carry away the PhysX objects down a stream in a realistic manner. Check it out below and download it from here.

More info about Torque 3D and GarageGames: http://www.garagegames.com/products/torque-3d/overview

you can download it from this link: http://demos.torquepowered.com/t3d/Pacific.exe

From the Torque 3D website:

PhysX — Torque 3D comes with an out-of-the-box PhysX integration on Windows which
includes cloth dynamics, rigid body physics, destructible objects, fluid buoyancy, and
destroyable joints.

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NVIDIA PhysX Fluid Demo Updated To 1.0.1.3

• August 10, 2010
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NVIDIA has updated the PhysX fluid Demo to 1.0.1.3. The demo is basically a demo to show off PhysX based water or the more technical term, Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). This is a great little program( less than 20MB) that can be used to quickly test out a new PhysX setup such as a dedicated PhysX card or a Hybrid ATI and NVIDIA PhysX setup. Using a simple toggle you can easily switch between Hardware(GPU) and Software(CPU) PhysX to not only to see if your dedicated PhysX card is working but to also see how a GPU helps improves PhysX performance. When I am installing a new PhysX setup I always install this program along with PhysX FluidMark to make sure everything is up and running properly.

You can download the demo here from the NVIDIA Power Pack page and in the event that it is not working PhysXinfo.com always has the latest PhysX Files. You can download it here.

From NVIDIA:

Fluids: Technology Demo
The primary purpose of the NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology Fluid Demo is to illustrate Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). The demo contains two different scenes, the Outdoor and the Logo Scene.

Outdoor Scene
This scene showcases SPH fluid flooding an outdoor area. As soon as the demo is started, a flood occurs and interacts with a stack of rigid bodies. Switch from dark water to clear water, to oil, or just show the real nature of fluids: spheres.

New Updates to 1.0.1.3:

Updates in this release:

1. Allocate only 64MB of VRAM heap instead of 128MB
2. Adjusted text output to not conflict with the PhysX Visual Indicator
3. Added option to toggle the display of all text (in screen space) on/off.

If you have never seen this demo before the below video from NVIDIA shows the demo in action.