Nvidia launched its first RTX 50-series graphics playing cards earlier this yr with out assist for PhysX, the GPU-accelerated expertise that permit video games realistically simulate shattering glass, shifting liquids, smoke, fog, and extra. Now, Nvidia is bringing again PhysX assist for the RTX 50-series GPUs for top-played video games like Borderlands 2, Mirror’s Edge, and Batman: Arkham Metropolis.
“We heard the suggestions from the neighborhood, and with the launch of our new driver at this time, we’re including customized assist for GeForce players’ most performed PhysX-accelerated video games, enabling full efficiency on GeForce RTX 50 Collection GPUs, according to our current PhysX assist on prior-generation GPUs,” says Nvidia.
PhysX was an enormous a part of video games like Borderlands 2 and Mirror’s Edge, and it initially didn’t ship with Nvidia’s newest GPUs as a result of the RTX 50-series dropped assist for 32-bit CUDA assist. That prevented these older video games utilizing PhysX from being GPU-accelerated on the most recent Nvidia GPUs. Some titles like Borderlands 2 dropped under 60fps, as a result of the video games had been counting on a CPU to ship PhysX results.
Nvidia has now created “customized assist” for top-played PhysX-accelerated video games, however not all video games are supported but. Right here’s the present record:
Alice: Insanity Returns
Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag
Batman: Arkham Metropolis
Batman: Arkham Origins
Borderlands 2
Mafia II
Metro 2033
Metro: Final Gentle
Mirror’s Edge
Nvidia says it’s additionally planning to assist Batman: Arkham Asylum “within the first a part of 2026,” however there’s no phrase on any extra video games. PhysX was at all times restricted to a handful of titles anyway, however Resetera discussion board members have been monitoring greater than 40 video games which were affected by the elimination of PhysX assist on RTX 50-series GPUs. Sadly, it appears unlikely that Nvidia will totally assist all of those older PhysX video games.
You may obtain Nvidia’s new Sport Prepared driver (591.44) over at Nvidia’s web site or via the Nvidia app.
