Havok 4.0 Video Demonstration

October 2nd, 2006 Posted in News

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The software physics engine Havok, powering games such as Half Life 2, is a serious threat to the hardware based counterpart, Ageia PhysX. Version 4.0 looks advanced enough to match Ageia’s $300 physics card.

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2 Responses to “Havok 4.0 Video Demonstration”

  1. Anuban Says:

    October 3rd, 2006 at 1:05 am

    Those are some brilliant guys and that looks awesome … I can’t wait to see that in action in the upcoming games. Now I can hold off on buying that ppu all the hardcore gamers have been talking about.



  2. John frew Says:

    October 3rd, 2006 at 11:08 am

    Lots of collision errors in there, objects going through polygons. Apart from quantity, theres nothing new here.

    This and Ageia can really be compared, this is the equivalent of a software render running on a fast computer. It works but pow, you’ve lost 50% of your game processing resources. Ageias solution is to remove this burden into hardware allowing for the rest of the PC to concentrate on graphical effect, AI, better game play etc…



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