{"id":424363,"date":"2025-12-04T15:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424363\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:41:12","slug":"nvidias-new-rtx-50-series-gpu-driver-restores-physx-support-for-popular-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424363\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia\u2019s new RTX 50-series GPU driver restores PhysX support for popular games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Nvidia launched its first RTX 50-series graphics cards earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/615768\/nvidia-rtx-5090-5080-5070-drop-physx-support-32-bit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">without support for PhysX<\/a>, the GPU-accelerated technology that let games realistically simulate shattering glass, moving liquids, smoke, fog, and more. Now, Nvidia is bringing back PhysX support for the RTX 50-series GPUs for top-played games like Borderlands 2, Mirror\u2019s Edge, and Batman: Arkham City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWe heard the feedback from the community, and with the launch of our new driver today, we are adding custom support for GeForce gamers\u2019 most played PhysX-accelerated games, enabling full performance on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, in line with our existing PhysX support on prior-generation GPUs,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/geforce\/news\/battlefield-6-winter-offensive-geforce-game-ready-driver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says Nvidia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">PhysX was a big part of games like Borderlands 2 and Mirror\u2019s Edge, and it originally didn\u2019t ship with Nvidia\u2019s latest GPUs because the RTX 50-series dropped support for 32-bit CUDA support. That prevented these older games using PhysX from being GPU-accelerated on the latest Nvidia GPUs. Some titles like Borderlands 2 dropped below 60fps, because the games were relying on a CPU to deliver PhysX effects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Nvidia has now created \u201ccustom support\u201d for top-played PhysX-accelerated games, but not all games are supported yet. Here\u2019s the current list:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Alice: Madness Returns<br \/>Assassin\u2019s Creed IV: Black Flag<br \/>Batman: Arkham City<br \/>Batman: Arkham Origins<br \/>Borderlands 2<br \/>Mafia II<br \/>Metro 2033<br \/>Metro: Last Light<br \/>Mirror\u2019s Edge<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Nvidia says it\u2019s also planning to support Batman: Arkham Asylum \u201cin the first part of 2026,\u201d but there\u2019s no word on any additional games. PhysX was always limited to a handful of titles anyway, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/rtx-50-series-gpus-have-dropped-support-for-32-bit-physx-many-older-pc-games-are-impacted-mirrors-edge-borderlands-etc.1111698\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resetera forum<\/a> members have been tracking more than 40 games that have been affected by the removal of PhysX support on RTX 50-series GPUs. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that Nvidia will fully support all of these older PhysX games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">You can download Nvidia\u2019s new Game Ready driver (591.44) over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/geforce\/drivers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nvidia\u2019s website<\/a> or through the Nvidia app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia launched its first RTX 50-series graphics cards earlier this year without support for PhysX, the GPU-accelerated technology&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":424364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[393,50,1671,9597,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-424363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gaming","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-nvidia","11":"tag-pc-gaming","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}