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AMD just announced that they are working with Havok on physics acceleration,
but probably not how you thought. Nope, nothing about GPUs and Havok working
together again, it seems that ship has sailed. But did you know that Havok's
APIs work with CPUs too?? All kidding aside, the article is a pretty deep
analysis of what AMD is attempting to say in their PR and a good look and
update at the current state of accelerated physics in general.

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=574

Quote: "It's this next line that really puzzles me: "The two companies will
also investigate the use of AMD's massively parallel ATI Radeon GPUs to
manage appropriate aspects of physical world simulation in the future."
So...what they are saying is that AMD and Havok WILL look into ways that the
GPU can help with physics simulations; NOT that they already have
investigated or that they successfully found some areas that can utilize
Havok on the GPU or anything like that at all. Instead, we are supposed to
gobble up a news release that says 'we'll get to it, maybe, if it makes
sense.'"

Thanks for a post!

Ryan Shrout
Owner - PC Perspective
rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com