Kudos where due, the Havok engine is amongst the best known and revered.
Not sure if its efficient or well designed though, but if Havok can provide hardware abstraction in the same way as 3D graphics acceleration works, it means games physics can be interchangeable between hardware acceleration and software where no hardware acceleration is present.
Very cool!
But for the meantime, I'll be sticking with my Quad core Intel and my Nvidia 8800! ;-)
IIRC both the Xbox and the PS3 use ATI based designs, futhermore Havok is more of an API, like Direct X to allow for complex physics to be coded easier and be more realistic.
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AMD to pair CPUs, GPUs with Intel's physics tech
Phil Hare
PS3 Confusion #
Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 12:37 GMT
How come most of the games on my PS3 - which uses an nVidia GPU - are labelled as using Havock? What have I missed?
Paris because I think my IQ is hovering somewhere around hers today. maybe it's time to start believing in God.
Stu
Kudos to AMD #
Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 12:37 GMT
Kudos where due, the Havok engine is amongst the best known and revered.
Not sure if its efficient or well designed though, but if Havok can provide hardware abstraction in the same way as 3D graphics acceleration works, it means games physics can be interchangeable between hardware acceleration and software where no hardware acceleration is present.
Very cool!
But for the meantime, I'll be sticking with my Quad core Intel and my Nvidia 8800! ;-)
Anonymous Coward
@Phil Hare #
Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 19:56 GMT
IIRC both the Xbox and the PS3 use ATI based designs, futhermore Havok is more of an API, like Direct X to allow for complex physics to be coded easier and be more realistic.
Gregg Bond
In Other News.... #
Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 19:56 GMT
Scientists in hell have managed to achieve 0 degrees Kelvin, Satan is quoted as saying "It's a trifle chilly".
Oscar
@Phil Hare #
Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 22:39 GMT
Because Havok has an SPE optimised version. You don't have enough spare processing power on either the 360 or PS3 graphics chips to do physics.
kain preacher
@Gregg Bond #
Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 23:01 GMT
Scientists in hell have managed to achieve 0 degrees Kelvin, Satan is quoted as saying "It's a trifle chilly".
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They lied its really only 3ºK
Kaal Alexander Rosser
@Gregg Bond/kain preacher #
Posted Friday 13th June 2008 09:05 GMT
Kelvin is an absolute scale. You don't talk about 'N degrees Kelvin', it's just 'N Kelvin'.
Chris
Graphics chips in consoles #
Posted Monday 16th June 2008 14:08 GMT
The PS3 uses an NVIDIA chip, RSX. The Xbox 360 and Wii use AMD/ATI chips: Xenos and Hollywood.