In order to enable GPU accelerated NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology or NVIDIA® CUDA™ acceleration, a NVIDIA® GeForce® GPU 8-series or later with a minimum of 256MB of memory is required.
See list of supported GeForce GPUs below. Also required is GeForce graphics driver v178.24 or later.
Download drivers here.
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce 9800 GTX+
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 9600 GSO
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 9500 GS
GeForce 9400 GT
GeForce 9300 GS
GeForce 9300 GE
GeForce 8800 Ultra
GeForce 8800 GTX
GeForce 8800 GTS 512
GeForce 8800 GT
GeForce 8800 GS
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 8400 SE
GeForce 8400 GS
GeForce 8400
GeForce 8300 GS
GeForce 8300
GeForce 8200
GeForce 8100 / nForce 720a
GeForce 8100 / nForce 720a
This driver supports NVIDIA® Phys™ acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory. NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.09.04 is automatically installed with this driver package.
Owners of a NVIDIA® GeForce® 8 series or later graphics card with a full version of Unreal Tournament 3 have the unique opportunity to tear up additional levels of Unreal Tournament 3 through some exclusive NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology features. The PhysX Mod offers three new levels of environmental destruction including destructible walls, floors, walkways, rooftops and new weapons. New levels include: Heat Ray, Lighthouse & Tornado
The UT3 PhysX Mod Pack requires a full version of Unreal Tournament 3 - It is not a stand-alone title. Make sure to enable "Hardware Physics" under Video Settings in the UT3 settings.
This totally free to download and play online first person shooter is now upgraded with two new levels – Tombstone and Asylum . Featuring NVIDIA® PhysX™ gaming effects, you have to keep on your toes in this fast moving game – play on your own, have your own LAN party or join one of our servers, but watch out– this is no ordinary game!
Warmonger is a UE3 based first person shooter, with advanced PhysX™ effects throughout the game adding a new dimension to multi-player gaming, players can no longer safely hide behind a brick wall or on the top of a building, the highly destructible scene opens up many different game play paths. The two new levels present a dark foreboding battle field – take care not to become one of the permanent residents.
System Requirements:
Compatible with WinXP and Vista. For best enjoyment PhysX acceleration is required. NVIDIA® Geforce® 8, 9 and 200 Series GPUs are recommended. Please install the latest NVIDIA GeForce ®drivers which include the latest PhysX system software.
The primary purpose of the NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology Fluid Demo is to illustrate Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). The demo contains two different scenes, the Outdoor and the Logo Scene.
Outdoor Scene
This scene showcases SPH fluid flooding an outdoor area. As soon as the demo is started, a flood occurs and interacts with a stack of rigid bodies. Switch from dark water to clear water, to oil, or just show the real nature of fluids: spheres.
Logo Scene
The Logo Scene showcases SPH fluid simulation in an enclosed environment.
The Badaboom™ Media Converter formats video and audio files for a variety of devices using a process called transcoding. By utilizing a NVIDIA® GeForce® GPU, badaboom™ enables users to painlessly convert video in multiple formats and view them on their portable media devices - all in a convenient, intuitive application.
Version 1.1 now includes new input file formats (DivX, Xvid, MPEG-1, MPEG-4, VC-1, WMV, AVI, MKV, MOV), new output profiles (YouTube, Blackberry Bold and Microsoft Zune), higher output resolution (1080p), higher quality output (H.264 Main Profile) and Multi-GPU support
Minimum Recommended Hardware: 1.6GHz Dual Core Processor, GeForce 8 Series or later graphics.
Download Folding@home and band together with people across the globe by adding the massive compute power of a NVIDIA® GeForce® GPU to one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Use your PC to help fight many of the world’s most devastating diseases while you sleep at night.*
*Please Note: The NVIDIA Folding client is a High Performance client that does not just run un-noticed in the background. It uses compute resources. We recommend only running when you are not using your PC.
Featuring GPU accelerated NVIDIA® PhysX™ effects.
Like to solve puzzles? Crazy Machines 2+ offers a unique gaming experience which can be enjoyed by players of all ages. Players are challenged to complete 20 mind bending tasks using the provided set of tools and components. This fully playable mini version features fluid simulation using NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology throughout the game.
Be warned this game is highly addictive, and once these tasks are complete there are even more amazing puzzles in the full version of the game now available on NZONE.
System Requirements:
Compatible with WinXP and Vista. For best enjoyment PhysX acceleration is required. NVIDIA® Geforce® 8, 9 and 200 Series are recommended. Please install the latest NVIDIA GeForce drivers which include the latest PhysX system software.
Sneak Peek - Featuring GPU accelerated NVIDIA® PhysX™ effects
In development by 1C games, Cryosatasis is a FPS horror game set in 1968 on a Russian nucLear powered ice breaker. With freezing conditions around the ship, and only partly working heating the conditions are tough – but ideal for creating a very cool looking FPS with interactive nvidia® PhysX gaming effects. This sneak peak demo gives you an opportunity to be one of the first to see the game actually running on your gaming rig. This scripted flythrough makes full use of GPU-accelerated PhysX features of your GeForce graphics card with some very cool environmental effects.
Read more about this game at www.cryostasis-game.com
System Requirements:
Compatible with WinXP and Vista. For best enjoyment PhysX acceleration is required. NVIDIA® Geforce® 8, 9 and 200 Series are recommended. Please install the latest NVIDIA GeForce drivers which include the latest PhysX system software.
By Kenneth Bugeja
A fun little application developed by Kenneth Bugeja to demonstrate NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology fluid simulations . This is one of his many entries from the recent Dark Basic PhysX Contest. Ken is one of the millions of new NVIDIA® GeForce® GPU users enjoying PhysX acceleration, he also enjoys writing physics applications and games in his spare time. The PhysX SDK is available for download from NVIDIA’s developer sites, and the easy to use Dark Physics SDK is available from The Game Creators.
System Requirements:
Compatible with WinXP and Vista. For best enjoyment PhysX acceleration is required. Geforce® 8, 9 and 200 Series GPUs are recommended. Please install the latest NVIDIA GeForce drivers which include the latest PhysX system software. Requires DirectX9.0c to be installed – which is included with Crazymachines2 Demo and Warmonger.
By Kenneth Bugeja
Another fun application written by Kenneth Bugeja – author of the Dark Basic PhysX Fluid Demo. Written with Dark Basic and Dark Physics powered by NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology. This application demonstrates how soft body objects can be inserted into a simple environment. This application demonstrates that PhysX simulation is accessible to all users using simple to use tools.
System Requirements:
Compatible with WinXP and Vista. For best enjoyment PhysX acceleration is required. Geforce® 8, 9 and 200 Series GPUs are recommended. Please install the latest NVIDIA GeForce drivers which include the latest PhysX system software. Requires DirectX9.0c to be installed – which is included with Crazymachines2 Demo and Warmonger.
Featuring NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology
Featuring NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology, this screen saver will ensure your screen will be full of action even when you’re taking a breather. Developed by The Game Creators using their Dark GDK included with Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual C++ Express, now available free of charge. Fully customizable options give users an opportunity to see PhysX action high above their own panoramic landscape, and a rolling ball tear into cloth banners featuring your own photo collection.
System Requirements:
Compatible with WinXP and Vista. For best enjoyment PhysX acceleration is required. Geforce® 8, 9 and 200 Series GPUs are recommended. Please install the latest NVIDIA GeForce drivers which include the latest PhysX system software. Requires DirectX9.0c to be installed – which is included with Crazymachines2 Demo and Warmonger.
Featuring NVIDIA® CUDA™ Accelerated Video Effects
PowerDirector 7 is a comprehensive, semi-professional video editing software, featuring end-to-end support for high definition video, from importing to editing and output which enables users to create movie masterpieces with powerful, yet easy-to-use tools to make video editing enjoyable.
PowerDirector 7 now contains (10) NVIDIA® CUDA™ accelerated video filters like Radial Blur and Light Ray that reduce rendering time by up to 5x and is now available for free to current PowerDirector users.
Please note that this version does NOT feature GPU-accelerated encoding; this will be added in a subsequent release.
MINIMUM Recommended Hardware:
Dual Core Processor, NVIDIA® GeForce® 8 Series or later GPUs
Featuring NVIDIA® CUDA™ Accelerated Video Effects
TMPGEnc XPress is a very popular transcoding application with simple cut-edit tools & powerful video effects filters. TMPGEnc XPress now contains NVIDIA® CUDA™ accelerated video filters like Noise Reduction and Image Sharpening that reduce rendering time by up to 4x!
MINIMUM Recommended Hardware:
Dual Core Processor, NVIDIA® GeForce® 8 Series or later GPUs
Star Tales is a highly ambitious social networking game from the acclaimed Chinese developer QWD1. Think of Star Tales as The Sims online with Unreal Tournament 3 level graphics and GPU-accelerated physics.
Characters are modeled with incredible detail. Dancers in the game employ intricate motion captured animation. Because dancing is a central aspect of the game, clothing animation was designed for the highest level of realism and interactivity. In the Star Tales benchmark which features a main dancer wearing a long shirt and four supporting dancers, more than 14,000 clothing vertices are simulated in total. Because this is such an overwhelming workload for the CPU, Star Tales leverages the GPU to achieve scalable performance. For example, the modestly priced GeForce GTS 250 is able to render the game at 1920 x 1200 with advanced graphical effects such as HDR and depth of field, and at the same time, simulate collision between 14,000 clothing vertices against dynamic geometry, all at 35 frames per second.
This is the first game of its kind to achieve this level of physical and graphical realism on consumer hardware.
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel is an Action Role-playing Game (RPG) set 2,000 years before the original Sacred: Fallen Angel. In Sacred 2, player can chose between six races and wander the vast world of Ancacria.
The Sacred 2 PhysX Game Patch is now available for download and features stunning in-game effects taking the gameplay to the highest level of realism.
Sacred 2 PhysX Effects include:
- Physically Simulated Spell Particles
- Physically Simulated Ground Debris
- Physically Simulated Wind
- Physically Simulated Footsteps
- Physically Simulated Force fields
Full Patch Option (837 MB)
Download this Full Patch to update your United States retail v1.0 of Sacred 2: Fallen Angel to v2.40.
Note: To experience the PhysX features you will need a GeForce 8-series or later PhysX enabled GPU.
Small Patch Option (206 MB)
Download this Small Patch to update your United States Sacred 2 v2.34 to v2.40.
Note: To experience the PhysX features you will need a GeForce 8-series or later PhysX enabled GPU.
(Note: Must have full version of Sacred 2: Fallen Angel)
MotionDSP’s vReveal is an exciting NVIDIA® CUDA™ enabled application for consumers. vReveal features an adaptation of the “CSI-style” video enhancement technology behind MotionDSP’s “Ikena,” the high-powered forensic software used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. This technology allows vReveal to enhance low resolution or poorly captured video with a single click.
While vReveal will run on the CPU, it has been programmed specifically to leverage the tremendous parallel processing power of CUDA enabled GPUs. By tapping into the many parallel cores of CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPUs, vReveal can process videos up to five times faster compared to just using a CPU. That means consumers can enhance their videos in less time and have their CPUs available for normal everyday tasks like emailing and internet browsing.
Official Website: http://www.vreveal.com/
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
1.6 GHz Intel or AMD dual core CPU,
CUDA-enabled GPU* with NVIDIA graphics drivers version 178 or above,
Windows XP 32-bit or 64-bit, 1GB RAM,
Windows Vista 32-bit or 64-bit, 1GB RAM,
Supported Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish,
Coming soon: Chinese, Korean, Japanese.
*Support for GeForce 8800 Ultra, 8800 GTX, 8800 GTS 640, 8800 GTS 320; Quadro 4600 and 5600 coming soon.
SETI@home lets you participate in the “Search for extra-terrestrial intelligence” by contributing some of the extra computing power of your NVIDIA® CUDA™ enabled graphics processor when you’re not using it.
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology. You can participate by running this free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data. And now, with this CUDA GeForce GPU client, your system can deliver as much as 10 times the computational power of an average home PC CPU.
System Requirements:
CUDA enabled GPU (NVIDIA GeForce 8-series or later),
256 MB RAM, 1 GB or higher recommended,
PCI Express or PCI Express 2.0 compliant motherboard,
Microsoft Windows Vista, 32-bit or 64-bit, Windows XP or Windows XP Professional ×64 Edition,
50 MB of available hard disk space,
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