Havok FX/ATI Interview

Last week, graphics card maker ATI announced a plan to use their Crossfire multi-GPU set up to enable physics effects in PC games with hardware, using an ATI graphics card as the physics chip in a 1X1 or a 2X1 setup. They also announced that support for Havok’s physics software Havok FX.

It’s hard to be ‘sold’ on this idea right now. The technique is similar to the PhysX card, except here you can just a third GPU, unless you don’t mind sacrificing your highest frame rates. It’s been said about the PhysX, and it is said here… we need to see some killer app’s. 2 or 3 games are not going to cut it.