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Installing the Card, Ageia Driver panel and demo

Installation of the Physics card is extremely straight forward. You insert the card into an empty PCI slot (yes PCI not PCI Express), hook up a Molex connector from your power supply and you can boot into windows. Once windows has loaded the hardware installation wizards will start. Cancel it.

Now download the latest Ageia PhysX drivers, install them and then everything is setup. As states, easy ...

We now have a tray icon which once clicked on reveals the Ageia driver properties and a demo. With the card installed, the user can move to the next tab and run a series of diagnostics to troubleshoot any current issues they might be having. There are dozens of tests the card must run to complete these diagnostics. Ours came out 100%

The driver furthermore is low-level. Nothing to see or detect here. The driver also lacks proper information, no functionality history, no revision history... it would be good to know what game was optimized or supported with new features or bug-fixes right ?

On another CD we did see an additional (and an actually better looking) PhysX Demo, Hanger of Doom.

One interesting addition is a small Physics demo. Here's a negative point immediately as you just spend a good 250-300 bucks on the card, install the drivers, see a demo and then get that. Horrible looking colored boxes with physics applied to them that can be hit by a ball.