PhysX
Sign in to savethumb|A BFG Technologies|BFG Physx card PhysX is an open-source realtime physics engine middleware SDK developed by Nvidia as part of the Nvidia GameWorks software suite.
Key facts
- Software.logo
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- Software.name
- PhysX
- Software.author
- NovodeX (ETH Zurich) Meqon (Meqon Research AB)
- Software.developer
- Nvidia Corporation(2008-present)Meqon(2005)Ageia(2004-2008)NovodeX AG(2001-2004)
- Software.latest_release_version
- Blast 5.0.6; PhysX SDK 5.5.0; Flow 2.1.0; PhysX System Software 9.23.1019
- Software.repo
- https://github.com/NVIDIA-Omniverse/PhysX (5.x) https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/PhysX (4.x and 3.4) https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/PhysX-3.4 (3.4)
- Software.programming language
- C++
- Software.operating_system
- Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii, iOS, Android
- Software.genre
- Physics simulation
- Software.license
- BSD-3
- Software.website
- Nvidia PhysX developer site Documentation
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
PhysX SDK - Latest Features & Libraries | NVIDIA Developer
A scalable multi-platform physics simulation solution for a wide range of devices, from smartphones to CPUs and GPUs.
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Source code
Welcome to NVIDIA's PhysX and APEX SDK source code repository. This depot includes the PhysX SDK, the APEX SDK, and the Kapla Demo application. NOTE: The APEX SDK is not needed to build either the PhysX SDK nor the demo and has been deprecated. It is provided for continued support of existing applications only. We recommend the following libraries as replacements: The documentation can also be found in the repository under PhysX 3.4 Documentation APEX 1.4 docs Please also see the following readme files: PhysX 3.4 readme .html, APEX 1.4 readme.txt. (1) Build PhysX SDK by opening one of the solutions found under PhysX 3.4 Source compiler. Supported platforms: Windows, Linux, OSX, Android, iOS. (2) The APEX SDK distribution contains pre-built binaries supporting GPU acceleration. Re-building the APEX SDK removes support for GPU acceleration. The solutions can be found under APEX 1.4 compiler. Supported platforms: Windows, Linux, Android. To build PhysX Snippets: open one of the solutions found under PhysX 3.4 Snippets compiler. To build PhysX Samples (windows only): open one of the solutions found under PhysX 3.4 Samples compiler. To build APEX Snippets: open one of the solutions found under APEX 1.4 snippets compiler. To build APEX Samples: open one of the solutions found under APEX 1.4 samples v2 compiler. To build and run the Kapla Demo (KaplaDemo samples compiler) please make sure to build the PhysX SDK with the same Visual Studio version and with the same build configuration before compiling the Kapla Demo. This will make sure the appropriate DLLs are copied to the KaplaDemo bin directory. Alexander Chemeris, The Android Open Source Project, Brian Paul, Brodie Thiesfield, Electronic Arts, Emil Mikulic, FreeImage, Hewlett-Packard Company, Independent JPEG Group, John W. Ratcliff, Julio Jerez, Kevin Bray, The Khronos Group Inc., Kitware, Inc., Mark J. Kilgard, Microsoft Corporation, Open Dynamics Framework Group, Python Software Foundation, Univ. of Western Ontario, and the ASSIMP, clang and glew development teams.
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.nvidia.com/de-de
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- software version identifier
- 9.23.1019
- source code repository URL
- github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/PhysX-3.4
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Article
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Features
- Hardware acceleration
- PPU
- GPU
- APEX
- Nvidia FleX
- Criticism from Real World Technologies
- Usage
- PhysX in video games
- PhysX in other software
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|A BFG Technologies|BFG Physx card PhysX is an open-source realtime physics engine middleware SDK developed by Nvidia as part of the Nvidia GameWorks software suite.
Initially, video games supporting PhysX were meant to be accelerated by PhysX PPU (expansion cards designed by Ageia). However, after Ageia's acquisition by Nvidia, dedicated PhysX cards have been discontinued in favor of the API being run on CUDA-enabled GeForce GPUs. In both cases, hardware acceleration allowed for the offloading of certain physics calculations from the CPU, allowing it to perform other tasks instead.