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Topic on Glossary talk:PhysX

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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):
 
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):
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* 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.
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* 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 <small>([[Crazy Machines 2#Broken physics|CM2]] allegedly relies on this one version for some reason)</small>
 
* 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 [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 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)