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Batman Arkham Origins; The game I almost swore off
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Okay, since I won't likely find anything else to play this Christmas this just made the top of my list. Sounds like they ditched Kevin Conroy though, that's a bummer.
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I've still yet to play either of them, despite owning them on PC for a long while now. More than anything, I am just waiting to get an Nvidia card capable of doing the Phys-X that makes them both look so mind-numbingly incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=batman+physx&oq=batman%2C+phy&gs_l=youtube.3.1.0l9j0i10.23.1107.0.2821.8.7.0.0.0.0.171.716.4j3.7.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.mg-r5XQF1XY

Check it out sometime...fucking amazing!

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My HTPC is capable of rendering the physx effects withoun an Nvidea card. It is pretty impressive I have to say even though it cuts the framerate in a half or third in many cases. The lighting and extra graphical details are nice, but they don't change the game even a little bit. I good Direct X 11 compatible card can do either Arkham games more justice than the PS360 ever did.
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Well, and I may be wrong here, but doesn't the framerate only get cut on non-Nvidia cards with a compatible Phys-X processor? I've read that if you have the Nvidia hardware you won't have any issues, but if you're using an ATI card, because it doesn't have that extra processor it really wreaks havoc on the framerate.

Not trying to knock ATI cards, mind you...they are all I had ever since I got in to computers(even back on my iMac) and I love them to death...but that Phys-x is just mind-blowing, and has me dead-set on sticking with Nvidia for a good while now(I've got an Nvidia GeForce 9800GT right now and it's pretty awesome).

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I haven't been able to figure out how the PhysX stuff works in the "authorized" way. It sounds like they want you to have TWO Nvidia cards, one for the general rendering, and another for the PhysX processing. If that is correct then my octal core FX8150 may be doing as well as any other solution I could come up with. The Nvidia cards that are advertised as PhysX ready aren't cheap, and I don't even have a second PCI-E port in any of my computers anyway. The mini port is in both, but not I don't have a full one.
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I don't think you have to have two Nvidia cards...you just have to have one that has the required Phys-X processor onboard. My GeForce has one, but it's just not powerful enough to push what the Batman games require for that extra level(stuff like his cape and other low-end Phys-X run items would still run fine). From what I've read, you just need a newer Nvidia GeForce card...that's about it.

Now, in terms of ATI cards running Phys-X, I hear they can do it, but when it comes to games that use it heavily, enabling it takes a large chunk out of the framerate. How they manage to make it work on the Xbox 360 is beyond me, but it does seem to work fine(though they never seem to use the higher-end Phys-X stuff).

Either way, it's not like you're missing anything...it's just added effects. Hell, I couldn't see virtually any of the higher-end graphical effects of Doom 3 on PC for the longest time and it just blew me away...then, years down the line when I got a more powerful card I was able to see them...and it blew me away again! ;)

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Yeah I haven't looked at the latest graphics cards so I don't know if any Nvidia ones that I would even be able to buy support PhysX in a single card. I was only looking at solutions for me and I didn't buy the right motherboard for a second card to use with my ATI cards. It is a neat effect that I can at least see on the HTPC, but it isn't worth the framerate dips. I wonder if any Nvidia cards I could afford just for that effect could do any better.

I wish they would just make a module or something that fit in a PCI port or the smaller PCI-E port that are in most motherboards nowadays.
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