New Dark Void PhysX Screenshots Released, Benchmark Coming Soon

• January 16, 2010
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The Dark Void page over at nzone.com has been updated with a bunch of newscreenshots showing off the PhysX that will be implemented into the game. Also interesting to note is that under the download section it says “Benchmark Coming Soon”. Hopefully this will be a nice PhysX benchmark we will be able to play around with as we were dissapointed with the recently released PC demo for Dark Void that did not have support for GPU PhysX and the PhysX effects that will be exclusive to the PC version. Check out the screenshots below or at the nzone.com Dark Void information page. We also embedded the recently released Dark Void PhysX trailer at the bottom so you can see what these PhysX effects look like in action.

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Here is the Dark Void PhysX Trailer showing what these effects will look like in action:

Dark Void PC Demo Released, Does Not Support GPU PhysX

• January 16, 2010
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Although it was initially reported that there would not be a PC demo of Dark void it turns out that a PC demo has been released. The demo however does not support any kind of GPU PhysX, there are no options in the graphics settings to change this or anything about PhysX and using the new PhysX visual indicator confirms that PhysX is running on the CPU and not the GPU. You can download the demo which is 1.02GB from the following links. FilePlanet, WorthFlaying, FileFront.

Looks like we are going to have to wait until the full release of Dark Void to play around with the GPU PhysX that the game is going to be implementing in the PC version of Dark Void. This past week the PhysX video for the PC version of Dark Void was released showing off the cool PhysX effects that will be enabled on the PC version such as Particle Effects and PhysX Turbulence. The PhysX Turbulence effects in Dark Void will be the first time they have been used in a game. Check out the Dark Void PhysX video and trailer below in case you have not seen them yet.

Dark Void PhysX Trailer:

Dark Void Official Trailer:

GF100 Fermi Techdemo PhysX Supersonic Sled HD-720p-Video

• January 11, 2010
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PCGamesHardware has a new 720p version of the PhysX Rocket Sled Demo that was being shown off by NVIDIA on the new GF100 Fermi Video card at CES 2010 this past week. The video is not only 720p a lot better than the previous videos of this we posted about but also shows several different run through’s of the demo, check it out below.

In this 720p HD Video we see Nvidias GF100-Fermi Techdemo called Supersonic Sled, directly from CES 2010. In the box running the Demo were 3 graphics card, apparently of the GF100 Fermi breed. Nvidias Sean Cleveland tells us, that only one card was working to make the demo run. In his further comments, he explains how the demo uses DirectX 11 tesselation for improved geometry count and how Nvidias own Physx API helps to model all the parts of the demo, making the volumetric smoke from the engine being deflected by blast screens, the overhanging rock arc crumbling and the bridge break down. Not to mention to ragdoll the poor sledge pilot. Have Fun!

PhysX Rocket Sled Demo Showcased On NVIDIA GF100 Fermi Video Card Triple SLI Setup [VIDEOS]

• January 9, 2010
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Legit Reviews made a pretty nice video of the new PhysX Rocket Sled demo running on a triple SLI GF100 Fermi setup being showcased at CES2010. Check out the video below. The idea of the demo itself may not be that interesting but what is fascinating about it is that most of the objects in the demo are rendered as PhysX objects. The smoke is also PhysX based and not just as animation and as you can see from the video the PhysX based smoke moves and reacts to it’s surroundings. The video states that the demo was an in-house engineering demo to show off tessellation and DX11 features. Since it was made to show off  DX11 and has heavy PhysX implementation NVIDIA probably won’t release it to download even if they do for a few months until the new Fermi video cards are released.

The second video is from golem.de and shows more of the demo all the way until the end, check it out below or here.

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Legit Reviews got a chance to look at test system that had not one, but three GF100 Fermi graphics cards running in triple SLI demo. The demo is being narrated by NVIDIA and all looks great until the very end. GF100 is due out in March 2010, so the driver team is still tweaking the software on these graphics cards. NVIDIA also announced that GF100 was in volume production today, so it looks like Fermi will still be out in Q1 2010.

This second video from golem.de is slightly better video quality showing a complete run through of the video all the way to the end, notice as the sled moves past the house it is destroyed.