Nvidia, PhysX

Nvidia’s RTX 50-Series Cards Fail to Preserve Our Favorite Games From 10 Years Ago
Nvidia dropping 32-bit PhysX from the RTX 50-series' CUDA infrastructure is another sign that game preservation can't depend on those making gaming hardware.
Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs
That’s because Nvidia has quietly removed support for PhysX in its latest graphics chips, the company confirmed this week, after buyers noticed PhysX games like Borderlands 2 we
Nvidia’s 50-series cards drop support for PhysX, impacting older games
Technically, a 64-bit game could still support PhysX on Nvidia's newest GPUs, but the heyday of PhysX, as a stand-alone technology switched on in game settings, tended to coincide with the 32-bit computing era.
PhysX quietly retired on RTX 50 series GPUs: Nvidia ends 32-bit CUDA app support
With the retirement of 32-bit CUDA application support on RTX 50 series GPUs, PhysX is now end-of-life starting with Blackwell and newer Nvidia GPU architectures.
Some Games Run Better On Older GPUs Than On Nvidia's New 50-Series Cards
Nvidia's new 50-series graphics cards just aren't as good at running certain older games as previous hardware generations were, some PC gamers have discovered. With its latest generation of GPUs, Nvidia has quietly removed support for PhysX, a physics simulation technology that was used in a number of popular titles in the early 2010s.
RTX 50 series no longer supports one of Nvidia’s oldest GPU technologies
The once popular PhysX graphics technology by Nvidia is now out of support, leaving fans of the legacy games it powers saddened.
Nvidia quietly kills off 32-bit PhysX on RTX 50 Series
End of an error Nvidia has officially retired 32-bit PhysX support on its latest RTX 50 series GPUs, marking the end of an era for the once heavily marketed physics simulation technology. According to Tom’s Hardware the announcement was made on Nvidia’s forums,
NVIDIA Confirms GeForce RTX 50 GPUs Don't Support 32-Bit CUDA And PhysX
The change makes some classic PC games run poorly even on modern hardware due to a lack of GPU-accelerated physics.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series gaming GPUs just lost PhysX support in many games
With removal of hardware support for 32-bit PhysX, the likes of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 no longer accelerate this fancy physics feature.
NVIDIA RTX 50 Series Cards No Longer Support PhysX
NVIDIA has stopped supporting 32-bit CUDA applications. Now, many games, including Mirror's Edge, Borderlands 2, and the Batman: Arkham series, can no longer use GPU acceleration for PhysX. This affects the PhysX feature on its RTX 50 series graphics cards.
Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series cards have issues playing older PhysX games
Technology always marches forward, but often there are a couple of hobbled lurches backwards at the same time. One of them appears to be Nvidia PhysX, a proprietary graphics technology that was all the rage about 20 years ago but has since fallen out of fashion.
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PhysX feature unlocked for RTX 5090 with RTX 3050 'helper' to enable full performance
As Nvidia has dropped support for PhysX in legacy games on its RTX 50 GPUs, a Redditor has bought a separate RTX 3050 as a ...
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NVIDIA ends support for PhysX physics engine
PhysX, the game-specific graphics technology that was highly promoted from the 2000s to the early 2010s, is no longer supported by NVIDIA's RTX 50 series. PhysX is a proprietary physics ...