Both systems use older hardware and, while Nvidia makes its PhysX middleware engine available to developers on all three consoles, we’ve seen that plenty of developers would rather use their own engines or other third party tools instead of Nvidia’s technology. The picture is no rosier on consoles, either.

With ATI coming up with superb GPUs and gaining market share, it’s become even less tempting for developers to spend hundreds of hours incorporating PhysX into their games while knowing that a large proportion of players won’t be able to see those effects in action.

In the same period, overall sales of desktop GPUs fell, shrinking the potential market for PhysX (and any other competing physics system) further. Various reports from the end of 2008 cite the release of ATI’s Radeon HD 4000-series as the major reason why ATI’s market share had grown from 35% to 40% in three months, forcing Nvidia to cut the prices of some of its flagship products in the meantime. In practise, though, Nvidia needs a near-monopoly on hardware to make PhysX worthwhile – and its position in the discrete GPU market is looking more precarious now that it has done over the past couple of years. It also meant that using PhysX had never been cheaper or easier. In theory, that meant that the majority of gamers using Nvidia cards were able to unlock the hidden power of physics and suddenly populate their games with realistic sparks, gently swelling water and other impressive effects, increasing realism ten-fold. please help so i installed the game fine and configured the settings for graphics and i am about to run the game it requests the Physx.

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