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Terminator Salvation PhysX Still Coming?

[Aug 14, 2009, 09:43 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Though NVIDIA announced PhysX support for Terminator Salvation before the movie tie-in game was released, it was not part of the game when it shipped. A movie on the YouTube from June 1 has a ShakyCam presentation showing PhysX in the game, promising it in an expansion: "this is going to release next month as an expansion and new game pack with all new levels for the game where you are going to be able to see some remarkable physics effects." With that month more than passed, and the game's developer GRIN now closed, this plan would seem to be in doubt. However, the Terminator Salvation page on nZone (thanks game|phys, dedicated to such topics) now has a new movie showing a side-by-side comparison of the game running with and without PhysX, suggesting a patch with PhysX support is still on the way. There's also a deceptive link to download an "exclusive, PhysX-packed Terminator Salvation timedemo," but this leads to a "coming soon" message.

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Re: Terminator Salvation PhysX Still Com

Aug 14, 2009, 14:31

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Financially speaking, I'm not sure what the big deal is. Exclusivity isn't an unheard of tactic to give a company an edge in whatever market they're in. I understand we're consumers and we want it all, but that's not always reasonable.

The deal is I have an nVidia card that supports PhysX but they've actively blocked me from using it because I have an ATi card. That and they keep pressuring developers / publishers to add support and boycott DX10.1. So I'm left with an nVidia card that's useless simply because of their politicking.

Only thing I could say to that, then, is you'll be missing out. The additional graphical eye candy you get with PhysX is nice.

Sure, but I'm not going to support a company trying to damage gaming for the sake of profit.




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