Unreal Engine 4 Will Natively Support PhysX 3.0, Launch Next-Gen Titles Will Support It

DSOGaming writes: "Great news for all gamers as Unreal Engine 4 will natively support the latest version of the PhysX SDK, PhysX 3.0."

[ZHZ90]

Awesome.

[john2]

Indeed. Good to see more games supporting PhysX 3.0 (instead of its older versions)

[HelpfulGamer]

Make People believe that Physx isn't a gimmick. Proof to us all, that it can make a sexy shower scene.

Nvidia did made that Sexy Mermaid Demo for GeForce™ 6800.

[UltimateMaster]

Next gen PC games only. ~Article

[john2]

Article has been updated. Hmmmmmmm, seems that the PC build of UE4 will support PhysX 3.0 (with certainty). Curious as to why there is silence regarding the console front (could be cause of the fact that they're using AMD's GPUs?)

[Pandamobile]

Most likely. Getting GPU accelerated PhysX working on consoles would likely require some collaboration between Nvidia and AMD.

[christrules0041]

http://www.engadget.com/201...

Except for Nvidia already said they are supporting the ps4 with Apex and PhysX

[Pandamobile]

But not with GPU acceleration. Next-gen consoles support PhysX the same way current gen does. It's calculated on the CPU.

[limewax]

Well PhysX 3.0 on consoles could of course be a hard sale to Nvidia, but it's also a perfect match since 3.0 has significantly better performance than the previous builds.

Unfortunately even if it did end up on the consoles though, it probably wouldn't perform quite as well as on its native cards. Plus it would still be incredibly power hungry. Even a high end card normally needs a middle end card as back up to max PhysX settings on games that use it heavily, especially when paired with tessellation.

I doubt the console GPU's could push it all too well right now. Maybe a few years down the line though with some more optimization to the source code.

[Rageanitus]

I guess this wont be happening on consoles. PhysX is NVIDIA owned

[elhebbo16]

wrong.

http://www.engadget.com/201...

http://nvidianews.nvidia.co...

[cunnilumpkin]

it likely won't be happening on consoles, not because of the NVidia/amd thing

more likely because ps4/xbox1 have laptop gpu's in them

[Grimhammer00]

So no WiiU support? ;)