Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series gaming GPUs just lost PhysX support in many games
Nvidia has quietly removed support for 32-bit PhysX hardware acceleration in its latest RTX 50 gaming GPUs, such as the Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090. This means games such as Mirror's Edge, Borderlands 2, and Batman: Arkham Asylum no longer have GPU-accelerated support for the impressively complex physics simulations PhysX can provide. With the Nvidia RTX 5090 now the best graphics card you can buy, you'd be forgiven for thinking that as well as supporting brand new features such as DLSS 4, it would also still bring full feature support for old but still popular game features. However, this latest development means any gamers firing up older PhysX-supporting titles will find PhysX calculations being run on the CPU, sometimes resulting in huge performance drops. Continue reading Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series gaming GPUs just lost PhysX support in many games MORE FROM PCGAMESN: RTX 5090 review, DLSS explained, Best graphics cards


Nvidia has quietly removed support for 32-bit PhysX hardware acceleration in its latest RTX 50 gaming GPUs, such as the Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090. This means games such as Mirror's Edge, Borderlands 2, and Batman: Arkham Asylum no longer have GPU-accelerated support for the impressively complex physics simulations PhysX can provide.
With the Nvidia RTX 5090 now the best graphics card you can buy, you'd be forgiven for thinking that as well as supporting brand new features such as DLSS 4, it would also still bring full feature support for old but still popular game features. However, this latest development means any gamers firing up older PhysX-supporting titles will find PhysX calculations being run on the CPU, sometimes resulting in huge performance drops.
MORE FROM PCGAMESN: RTX 5090 review, DLSS explained, Best graphics cards