Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series GPU driver restores PhysX support for popular games

Nvidia launched its archetypal RTX 50-series graphics cards earlier this twelvemonth without enactment for PhysX, the GPU-accelerated exertion that fto games realistically simulate shattering glass, moving liquids, smoke, fog, and more. Now, Nvidia is bringing backmost PhysX enactment for the RTX 50-series GPUs for top-played games similar Borderlands 2, Mirror’s Edge, and Batman: Arkham City.

“We heard the feedback from the community, and with the motorboat of our caller operator today, we are adding customized enactment for GeForce gamers’ astir played PhysX-accelerated games, enabling afloat show connected GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, successful enactment with our existing PhysX enactment connected prior-generation GPUs,” says Nvidia.

PhysX was a large portion of games similar Borderlands 2 and Mirror’s Edge, and it primitively didn’t vessel with Nvidia’s latest GPUs due to the fact that the RTX 50-series dropped enactment for 32-bit CUDA support. That prevented these older games utilizing PhysX from being GPU-accelerated connected the latest Nvidia GPUs. Some titles similar Borderlands 2 dropped beneath 60fps, due to the fact that the games were relying connected a CPU to present PhysX effects.

Nvidia has present created “custom support” for top-played PhysX-accelerated games, but not each games are supported yet. Here’s the existent list:

Alice: Madness Returns
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
Batman: Arkham City
Batman: Arkham Origins
Borderlands 2
Mafia II
Metro 2033
Metro: Last Light
Mirror’s Edge

Nvidia says it’s besides readying to enactment Batman: Arkham Asylum “in the archetypal portion of 2026,” but there’s nary connection connected immoderate further games. PhysX was ever constricted to a fistful of titles anyway, but Resetera forum members person been tracking much than 40 games that person been affected by the removal of PhysX enactment connected RTX 50-series GPUs. Unfortunately, it seems improbable that Nvidia volition afloat enactment each of these older PhysX games.

You tin download Nvidia’s caller Game Ready operator (591.44) implicit astatine Nvidia’s website oregon done the Nvidia app.