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lkyng
03-23-2006, 08:19 PM
Earlier this week NVIDIA made quite a splash with their announcement that they were partnering with Havok to bring physics acceleration to their latest GeForce 6/7 GPUs. According to the PR, through Havok’s GPU-accelerated “effects physics” SDK dubbed Havok FX, Havok plans to use Shader Model 3.0 GPUs to simulate “the interactions of thousands of colliding rigid bodies, a fundamental technique of physics computation seen in today's latest games.

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