Skanect, GPU and ATI?

Question

GPGPU

Problem number 36113 (with an asterisk):
Given:
1. Microsoft™ Kinect™ for Windows®
2. ATI Radeon HD 7000s (7850 to be exact)
3. Skanect software .
Task:
Use the GPU in the Skanect program. At the moment, the GPU item in the settings is crossed out, and when you click it, it requires you to install a video card driver with support for CUDA 2.0 (which, as Google told me, is “NVIDIA closed technology”). At the same time, he did not suggest alternative solutions. He pointed me to a certain ATI Stream, as well as PhysX (Physics itself is installed on the computer).
Considered:
1. Installing additional software, libraries (including those patched by third-party developers).
2. Using other programs to work with the scanner (provided that all Skanect features are supported).
3. Replacing a video card (purchased recently, you can change it, but overpaying one and a half thousand rubles just for the sake of replacing ATI with NVIDIA - the toad is choking).

Answer 1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9022171/cuda-and-ati-graphic-card

Answer 2

Written for the stupid:
What graphics cards are supported?
In general, any NVidia graphics card with more than 1Gb or memory and compatible with CUDA 2.0 should work. However, to ensure a good framerate, the GTX series is highly recommended, both for laptop and desktop configurations.
We develop Skanect using an Asus laptop with a GTX 560M, an Alienware laptop with a GTX 580M, and an Alienware X51 desktop with a GTX 660.

Answer 3

When CUDA technology first appeared, a certain hacker adapted drivers for ATI OpenCL, for which the company unanimously banned him, taking him on his staff: ixbt

This time, Eran Badit from the mentioned resource took up the development kits for NVIDIA CUDA SDK and PhysX SDK, resulting in a modified PhysX driver (previously available only for NVIDIA cards), which allows using GPU physics acceleration on AMD accelerators, in particular, on the Radeon HD 3870

ps that it's me, everything is chewed on the wiki