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		<title>ATI: Better Physics Through SLI</title>
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		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m all for better physics, because the sooner it gets here, the sooner developers will have smoke and running water, which will create a small chance that they&#8217;ll give up on the ridiculous floating rubber rag doll corpse physics.
Maybe not.
But regardless, what ATI and Havok are working on&#8212; doing physics simulation acceleration through an extra [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.metafuture.com/media/2006/06/ragdoll.jpg" alt="So realistic!" title="So realistic!" />I&#8217;m all for better physics, because the sooner it gets here, the sooner developers will have smoke and running water, which will create a small chance that they&#8217;ll give up on the ridiculous floating rubber rag doll corpse physics.</p>
<p>Maybe not.</p>
<p>But regardless, what ATI and Havok are working on&mdash; doing physics simulation acceleration through an extra graphics card in SLI with the main card&mdash; is a way better idea than doing it through a physics-only card, because then games that aren&#8217;t based on wiggly cadavers and exploding crate mountains can use the second video card as, well, a second video card.</p>
<p>The most interesting part of the interview says that this SLI solution is more capable than even unloading physics onto a dual-CPU machine, even when the CPUs are in turn dual-core. We&#8217;ll see if that&#8217;s marketing fast-talk or not.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10649" target="_blank">Read &#8211; Havok FX/ATI Interview</a> [Firing Squad]</p>
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