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| − | [https://web.archive.org/web/ | + | The physx gpu runtime had several CUDA branches, that didn't always evolve linearly (I tried to guess the SDK version from the minimum supported driver version when unspecified, though it may be not every dll in a given release is always recompiled): |
| + | * CUDA [https://web.archive.org/web/20090206001230/http://developer.download.nvidia.com:80/compute/cuda/2_0/docs/CUDA_SDK_release_notes_windows_2.0.pdf 2.0]: in the beginning there was [https://web.archive.org/web/20081003224356/http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_8.06.12_whql.html just] PhysX 2.7.3, which eventually [http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_9.09.0428_whql.html expanded] by mid-2009 with every version between 2.7.1 and 2.8.1 being accelerated. 2.7.1, 2.7.4 and 2.7.6 were [https://web.archive.org/web/20100710043337/http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_9.09.1112.html somehow] dropped after some month. | ||
| + | * CUDA [https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/3_0/sdk/docs/CUDA_SDK_release_notes.txt 3.0]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100329000556/http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_9.10.0129.html everything] is back in, except for 2.7.2 (in a "supported set" that is already reminiscent of the present). | ||
| + | * CUDA 4~[https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/DevZone/C/html/doc/Release_Notes.txt 4.2]: from just the release notes you'd think [http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.12.0613-driver.html 2012] is when this happened, but judging from the dlls this had already happened in [http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.11.1107-driver.html 9.11] (after more than a year of radio silence nonetheless, and after updating their installer toolset) | ||
| + | * CUDA 5(?): nothing [http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.12.1031-driver.html much] to add, except this was around the time they [https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/physx-9-12-0807.369267/ decided] not to ship anymore the non-accelerated versions | ||
| + | * CUDA 6: like above, you would think that it's only with the big Tesla [http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.14.0702-driver.html bye bye] that something significant happened, yet dlls were already there in the [http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.13.1220-driver.html previous] release | ||
| + | * CUDA 6.5: what we have today? | ||
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| + | Other funny juicy facts is that [http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40096 once] upon a time somebody got ''Curie'' to reportedly flag physx support... and a guy was [https://web.archive.org/web/20080917150322/https://techreport.com/discussions.x/15071 in touch] for real with nvidia for physx to work on ATI cards (fat chance, yeah, for the moment the best hope is [https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA ZLUDA]) | ||