NVIDIA PhysX Modded to Run on ATI Hardware? Seems Fishy

There is a rumor on the NGOHQ forum saying that someone has been able to modify (“mod”) a set of ATI drivers to run NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated PhysX cipher on older (pre-4800) ATI cards. At the moment, there is no proof that the claim is true, as the author of the forum post did no release the modified material for others to try. That seems pretty fish to me, as it seems to be a lengthy shot to “port” (rewrite) PhysX by ATI without rewriting the CUDA driver and plus parts of the ATI graphics driver that would access CUDA

input. All that without the most recent top-secret ATI driver source cipher. Of course, “in theory” everything is possible, but “in theory” all the traffic from Google could additionally be diverted to that blog by accident… (and that would build us very happy)

PS: whether the guy could actually do it, I’d like to order a DX10 driver for Windows XP, that would be far more useful…

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