Take your gaming rig into the future of PC gaming with BFG Tech physics accelerator cards powered by the AGEIA™ PhysX™ processor. Experience a new dimension in gaming physics performance. Things don’t just look real; they act real and feel real. Massively destructible buildings and landscapes; explosions that cause collateral damage; lifelike characters with spectacular new weapons; realistic smoke, fog and oozing fluids are all now possible with the AGEIA™ PhysX™ processor!*

*Requires compatible game titles. See list of compatible games below.

What is Physics?

Physics is all about how objects in your game move and react. It’s not just how things look, but how they behave. In many of today’s games, objects just don’t seem to act the way you’d want or expect. Most of the action is limited to pre-scripted or canned animations. Even the most powerful weapons leave little more than a charred smudge on the thinnest of walls; and every opponent you take out falls in a strangely familiar way. Serious gamers are left with a fine game, but one with a missing sense of realism to make the experience truly immersive.

Until now, only limited software physics has been integrated in games. That means physics computation has been handled by the general purpose CPU which is already burdened with the ever increasing demands of today’s advanced games including game logic and AI. Meanwhile, the highly specialized graphics processor is fully engaged with handling the rendering requirements of cinematic visuals at interactive framerates. As a result, physics in games has been limited to a few objects in a scene, one-off “effects” or visual trickery that just mimics real physics. 

Now for the first time, the AGEIA PhysX Processor delivers the computing horsepower necessary to enable true, advanced physics in games.

What is AGEIA PhysX?

Delivering advanced physics is an extremely compute-intensive undertaking, based on a unique set of physics algorithms, requiring tremendous amounts of mathematical and logical calculations with massive memory bandwidth. Simply put, it requires a highly specialized processor to deliver rich immersive environments with features such as:

• Explosions that cause dust and collateral debris
• Characters with complex, jointed geometries for more life-like motion and interaction
• Spectacular new weapons with unpredictable effects
• Lush foliage that sways naturally when brushed against
• Dense smoke & fog that billow around objects in motion

Tired of shooting at walls and nothing happening?  Now watch the individual bricks go flying; better yet, blow up that roof and let your enemy perish as it collapses on top of him.		Fully interactive, flow-dynamics fluid weapons let you take out enemies around corners and behind barricades…while smoke and dust from explosions make it hard to see if anyone’s still alive out there.		Everything’s real; everything’s interactive…everything’s a potential shield or a potential weapon – for you or the enemy. Throw everything at them… including the kitchen sink.

Together with a PC’s CPU and GPU, the AGEIA PhysX Processing Unit (PPU) makes up the new Gaming Power Triangle, in which the CPU “thinks and orchestrates” to drive playability, AI and overall game-logic, the general purpose GPU “renders and displays” to deliver beautiful 3D imagery, and the new AGEIA PhysX Processor, “moves and interacts” to take gaming to the next level.

The Start of Something Big

Over the last two years, leading game developers have been using the AGEIA PhysX SDK to optimize their games for the AGEIA PhysX Processor. Exciting PhysX-optimized titles are available today and over 100 more are being created by 60+ leading developers. This will be an unbelievable new physics entertainment experience...and it’s just the beginning.