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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.
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.
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.
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,
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. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox
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: Transitioning Away from 32-Bit PhysX and CUDA
Nvidia has recently confirmed that its RTX 50 series graphics cards will no longer support 32-bit PhysX, a technology historically used for rendering in-game physics effects.
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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NVIDIA ends support for PhysX physics engine
PhysX is a proprietary physics simulation SDK that handles ragdolls, cloth simulation, particles, volumetric fluid simulation, and other physics-specific graphic effects. It was originally ...
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PhysX quietly retired on RTX 50 series GPUs: Nvidia ends 32-bit CUDA app support
PhysX was a proprietary physics simulation SDK capable of processing ragdolls, cloth simulation, particles, volumetric fluid simulation, and other physics-focused graphical effects. By the ...
This reddit user bought a RTX 3050 to pair with a RTX 5090 and uncripple 32-bit PhysX games
Following confirmation that Nvidia does not support PhysX for 32-bit games anymore with the RTX 50 series, someone has found an interesting solution to the problem.