using PhysX with an AMD graphics card

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using PhysX with an AMD graphics card

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When trying to run the (64 bit) samples of the PhysX SDK with an AMD graphics card (Windows 7 64), an error "nvcuda.dll missing" occurs. What can I do?
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Re: using PhysX with an AMD graphics card

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA

You can't use hardware accelerated PhysX with an AMD card. You can use PhysX on the CPU just fine though.
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and where can I download the PhysX CPU driver?
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Why would there be a driver to use the SDK without special hardware? To be clear, you cannot use CUDA without a card from nvidia, but you do not need an nvidia card to use the PhysX SDK. I don't use PhysX but I imagine all this is covered somewhere in the RDP section of their site or in docu that came with the SDK. Dig a bit.
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The physx drivers come with the NVIDIA Graphics drivers. So if you dont have a NVIDIA GPU then you need to to download the physx drivers separately from here;
http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.13 ... river.html
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