BFG Tech - BFG PhysX 128MB PCI

BFG PhysX 128MB PCI

Take your gaming rig into the future of PC gaming with BFG Tech physics accelerator cards powered by the AGEIA™ PhysX™ processor. Experience a new dimension in gaming physics performance. Things don’t just look real; they act real and feel real. Massively destructible buildings and landscapes; explosions that cause collateral damage; lifelike characters with spectacular new weapons; realistic smoke, fog and oozing fluids are all now possible with the AGEIA PhysX processor!*

*Requires compatible game titles. See list of compatible games and system requirements on this
box and at PhysX Detailed Specs Page.

What is Physics?

Physics is all about how objects in your game move and react. It’s not just how things look, but how they behave. In many of today’s games, objects just don’t seem to act the way you’d want or expect. Most of the action is limited to pre-scripted or canned animations. Even the most powerful weapons leave little more than a charred smudge on the thinnest of walls; and every opponent you take out falls in a strangely familiar way. Serious gamers are left with a fine game, but one with a missing sense of realism to make the experience truly immersive.

Until now, only limited software physics has been integrated in games. That means physics computation has been handled by the general purpose CPU which is already burdened with the ever increasing demands of today’s advanced games including game logic and AI. Meanwhile, the highly specialized graphics processor is fully engaged with handling the rendering requirements of cinematic visuals at interactive framerates. As a result, physics in games has been limited to a few objects in a scene, one-off “effects” or visual trickery that just mimics real physics.

Now for the first time, the AGEIA PhysX Processor delivers the computing horsepower necessary to enable true, advanced physics in games.

What is AGEIA PhysX?

Delivering advanced physics is an extremely compute-intensive undertaking, based on a unique set of physics algorithms, requiring tremendous amounts of mathematical and logical calculations with massive memory bandwidth. Simply put, it requires a highly specialized processor to deliver rich immersive environments with features such as:

Explosions that cause dust and collateral debris
Characters with complex, jointed geometries for more life-like motion and interaction
Spectacular new weapons with unpredictable effects
Lush foliage that sways naturally when brushed against
Dense smoke and fog that billow around objects in motion

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Together with a PC’s CPU and GPU, the AGEIA PhysX Processing Unit (PPU) makes up the new Gaming Power Triangle, in which the CPU “thinks and orchestrates” to drive playability, AI and overall game-logic, the general purpose GPU “renders and displays” to deliver beautiful 3D imagery, and the new AGEIA PhysX Processor, “moves and interacts” to take gaming to the next level.

Features and Benefits of the
AGEIA PhysX processor

Feature	Feature
Massively Parallel Physics Architecture	Highly tuned multi-core processor complex optimized for dynamic, large-scale physics processing. Accelerates real-time physical motion and interaction at a scale and quality far beyond what’s possible with CPU or graphics processors.
High-speed GDDR3 Memory Interface	Support for GDDR3 memory delivers smoother game play via on-board acceleration of dynamic physics geometry and simulation objects.
AGEIA Universal Continuous Collision Detection	Enables entire environments to be interactive and destructible, with massive scale of collisions and response between fast moving objects.
AGEIA Physical Smart Particle Technology	Empowers tens of thousands of realistic smart particle calculations of volume, density and pressure for pervasive fluids, smoke, rain and debris. Goes beyond simple graphical particle systems which are unable to interact with dynamic objects.
AGEIA Complex Object Physics System	Drives physics processing beyond a few primitive shapes and simple effects to more accurate and realistic representations of physical objects and interactions.
AGEIA Scalable Terrain Fidelity	Delivers physical landscape accuracy and genuine surface reactions for true environmental experiences.
AGEIA Dynamic Gaming Framework	Flexible AGEIA PhysX hardware architecture provides an upgrade path to tomorrow’s powerful feature and performance enhancement via software.