Question about Nvidia Physx and Borderlands 2

[Strelok]

PhysX runs best with an SLi setup, one card dedicated to PhysX only. I have seen many people take older cards like 8800s and 9800s and use them as dedicated PhysX cards. Personally I love PhysX, really adds to the game, was really good in Mafia II, Alice: Madness returns, Metro:2033/Last Light and the Batman series.

 

[Sewa_Yunga]

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Oh, right. I play on 1280x1024. 5:4 ftw! I have some serious letterboxing going on in Dark Souls though.

[small]Actually, I'm thinking about getting a 16:9 monitor...[/small]

I play on a 32 inch HDTV which claims to be capable of 1080p, but it's actually 720p, so I play most of my games at 1360X768.

That looks like an odd resolution. Isn't 720p supposed to be 1280x720?

 

[Vausch]

Well, that's Mirth's Law for you. Software gets less efficient and more power hungry as hardware increases in power.

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

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Oh, right. I play on 1280x1024. 5:4 ftw! I have some serious letterboxing going on in Dark Souls though.

[small]Actually, I'm thinking about getting a 16:9 monitor...[/small]

I play on a 32 inch HDTV which claims to be capable of 1080p, but it's actually 720p, so I play most of my games at 1360X768.

That looks like an odd resolution. Isn't 720p supposed to be 1280x720?

Well, it's a 720p TV, but it scales 768p a lot better than 1080p. It's a cheap HDTV, and everything looks very crisp anywhere between 1280X720-1366X768. Anything lower is obviously pixelated, and anything above becomes washed out and blurry. I have a second monitor that has a native of 1440p, but it's a 23", and since I sit relatively far from the screen it's not ideal to play games on.

 

[Irridium]

What is PhysX meant to do? I turn it off in games that allow and to be honest I can't see a difference.

Here's a video showing what it does.


Basically it adds a bunch of particle effects/physics.