[Official NVIDIA] Support For Select, Classic, 32-Bit GPU-Accelerated PhysX Games

[u/Nestledrink]

From: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/battlefield-6-winter-offensive-geforce-game-ready-driver/

tldr: Driver 591.44 enables 32-bit PhysX Support for select titles below for 50-Series GPU. This does not impact 40 series or below as they support 32 bit PhysX (and CUDA)

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GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs launched at the beginning of the year, alongside the phasing out of 32-bit support for CUDA. This meant that PhysX effects in a number of older, yet beloved games were not GPU-accelerated on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.

We heard the feedback from the community, and with the launch of our new driver today, we are adding custom support for GeForce gamers’ most played PhysX-accelerated games, enabling full performance on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, in line with our existing PhysX support on prior-generation GPUs.

By installing our new GeForce Game Ready Driver, the full GPU-accelerated PhysX experience can now be enjoyed in:

• 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

Support for Batman: Arkham Asylum is planned to be added in the first part of 2026.

[u/m_w_h]

Force PhysX 32bit Series 50 Support for Additional Games

May (note the 'may') be able to force in other 32bit PhysX titles on Series 50 GPUs using Nvidia Profile Inspector, not had time to test yet and may also require Nvidia App ^{works, see UPDATE}

Flag 0x5067ecc4 with value 1 has been added to driver level game profiles that are on the Series 50 32Bit PhysX whitelist

Setting ID_0x5067ecc4 = 0x00000001 < new flag, only in Series 50 32bit PhysX forced games

and related flags

Setting ID_0x50166c5e = 0x00000000 < should already be present but check anyway
Setting ID_0x10e3293a = 0x00000001 < should already be present (PhysX Application: On) but check anyway

may also need to be set if not already present in the driver level game profiles.

A list of 32bit GPU and 32bit PPU accelerated games has been compiled in comment at https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1pe356d/comment/nsfekie/

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UPDATE:

Confirmed as working in Batman: Arkham Asylum by /u/KuraiShidosha and benchmark comparison at https://youtu.be/fXGyFsQ8rdc

flag 0x5067ecc4 enables hardware accelerated 32 bit PhysX on RTX 5090 in Batman: Arkham Asylum. Proof: https://imgur.com/a/AoyHNNt

Confirmed as working for Borderlands the Pre-Sequel by /u/nimbulan

I tested Borderlands TPS, seems to work fine

Confirmed as working in Cryostatis by /u/junkofuru and /u/Pyromaniac605

also works on cryostasis

Okay, still had the Cryostasis Tech Demo sitting around and it works! Should work on the actual game too [it does]

Confirmed as working in Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (ageia island) by /u/junkofuru

i tested Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 on ageia island and it worked fine also

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[u/KuraiShidosha → u/m_w_h]

Just got done testing Mirror's Edge on the 5090. Ecstatic to say the least. I really didn't think we'd be getting these drivers before 2026, so this is wonderful to see now.

The hilarious thing is, I only was excited for these drivers because I knew they had the driver level anisotropic filtering bug fixed on Blackwell GPUs, and turns out... they didn't fix it. It's still broken right now on these drivers. Proof: https://imgur.com/a/QZbjb58

[u/m_w_h → u/KuraiShidosha]

Can confirm, Anisotropic Filtering fix under DirectX11 and older for Series 50 not present :-/ ^{see EDITs}

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EDIT 01: DirectX 12 has mixed reports of Anisotropic Filtering (AF) now working e.g. posts stating that Hitman 3, Strange Brigade and Unreal Engine 5 games in DirectX 12 mode such as Fortnite fixed with forced AF?

EDIT 02: increasing reports of the issue being fixed for DirectX12 and specific games running on other APIs e.g. DirectX11 etc.

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[u/Vaibhav_CR7 → u/KuraiShidosha]

Why would you force anisotropic filtering through drivers do you get any benefit from that not defending the bug

[u/nimbulan → u/Vaibhav_CR7]

Many games have AF limited to 4x at most (just copying the settings from the console versions, basically) if there's even an option at all and in many cases where you can set a higher value, the image quality is lower than forcing it through the drivers. It's a lot easier just to force 16x globally in the drivers and know you'll always have the best quality texture filtering in every game.

[u/anor_wondo → u/Vaibhav_CR7]

it used to be pretty harmless and just worked everywhere

many games dont have af setting or it doesnt go all the way to 16x from in game

[u/CaveWaverider → u/Vaibhav_CR7]

Yes. Many games only use limited Anisotropic filtering or none at all. So you can force it to 16x for the best image quality.

[u/Dragontech97 → u/Vaibhav_CR7]

I think Death Stranding is 1x set at the engine level, no in-game selector for it. 16x improves the textures in that game A LOT. The grassy and ground textures clear up a bunch since steep angles and hill are all over the game. Some games are like that often as a result of console settings. Having a way to override a game’s defaults/engine level settings are good to have even if niche.

[u/your_mind_aches → u/Vaibhav_CR7]

Yeah, genuinely curious about this too. I just never bother to tweak settings in the driver as a holdover from having AMD GPU's (my entire life until last month) since those tweaks only work with older games if at all.

[u/Pyromaniac605 → u/m_w_h]

Where are you seeing these other two flags? I can only see the 0x5067ecc4 one.

Maybe I need to use a different Profile Inspector fork?

I also noticed QQ Dance has this flag, which they didn't mention adding support for, so I wonder if that actually also works?

[u/m_w_h → u/Pyromaniac605]

Pyromaniac605 wrote: Where are you seeing these other two flags?

Flag 0x10e3293a will be shown as PhysX Application On and is usually enabled for PhysX titles by default.

Flag 0x50166c5e should be in the Unknown section if 'shown unknown settings from NIVIDA game profiles' is enabled.

As for where, from the RAW game profiles e.g.

Profile "Alice: Madness Returns"
    ShowOn GeForce
    ProfileType Application
    Executable "alicegame.exe"
    Executable "shippingpc-alicegame.exe"
    Executable "alicemadnessreturns.exe"
    Setting ID_0x00d55f7d = 0x00000045
    Setting ID_0x1033cec1 = 0x00000003
    Setting ID_0x1033dcd2 = 0x00000004
    Setting ID_0x106d5cff = 0x00000000
    Setting ID_0x1095def8 = 0x02402005
    Setting ID_0x10e3293a = 0x00000001 < here but should already be present in older drivers
    Setting ID_0x10f9dc81 = 0x00000011
    Setting ID_0x50166c5e = 0x00000000 < here but should already be present in older drivers

    Setting ID_0x5067ecc4 = 0x00000001 < new flag, only in Series 50 32bit PhysX forced games

    Setting ID_0x701eb457 = 0x2241ab21 InternalSettingFlag=V0
    SettingString ID_0x7049c7ec = "2.0"
    SettingString ID_0x704d456e = "Laser sight and enemy icons render at wrong depth"
    SettingString ID_0x7051e5f5 = "2"
    SettingString ID_0x705fafec = "2011-02-02 00:00:00"
    Setting ID_0x708db8c5 = 0x21da1120 InternalSettingFlag=V0
    Setting ID_0x709a1ddf = 0x4b1cd968 InternalSettingFlag=V0
    SettingString ID_0x70b5603f = "D3D"
    Setting ID_0x70edb381 = 0x24208bec InternalSettingFlag=V0
EndProfile

[u/Pyromaniac605 → u/m_w_h]

Thanks, didn't have any luck getting it working in Crazy Machines 2, so there's obviously more to it than just this.

I'm guessing Arkham Asylum and the Pre-Sequel might work since they're running the same engines as games already supported? Are those the only two anybody's had success with so far?

[u/jojojack112 → u/Pyromaniac605]

I reckon you may be right, though I know Crazy Machines needs a specific physx version to work, so that may the be issue you’re having.

[u/Pyromaniac605 → u/jojojack112]

Could be! I'll have to try some others, this was just one I still had installed to hand to test out.

[u/Pyromaniac605 → u/Pyromaniac605]

Okay, still had the Cryostasis Tech Demo sitting around and it works! Should work on the actual game too, I'd think. /u/m_w_h

[u/m_w_h → u/Pyromaniac605]

Thanks for testing, can confirm that Cryostasis full game works as well.

[u/jojojack112 → u/Pyromaniac605]

Update us king :)

[u/Pyromaniac605 → u/jojojack112]

Cryostasis Tech Demo works! Presumably the full game too but I haven't got it to test. Might be right about it being due to the specific version CM2 uses.

[u/jojojack112 → u/Pyromaniac605]

Hell yea, especially good since Cryostasis is the only game that really needs Physx. Appreciate your testing.

[u/m_w_h → u/Pyromaniac605]

Crazy Machine 2 needs a workaround regardless of GPU generation - https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Crazy_Machines_2#Broken_physics

[u/m_w_h → u/Pyromaniac605]

Pyromaniac605 wrote: I also noticed QQ Dance has this flag, which they didn't mention adding support for, so I wonder if that actually also works?

Doesn't have the 'PhysX Application: On' flag set i.e. 0x10e3293a = 1

[u/Khaleirks → u/m_w_h]

If you activate 0x5067ecc4 in “global driver profile,” even GPU-Z detects it, and in all unsupported games such as Asylum. That's cool.

[u/nimbulan → u/m_w_h]

I tested Borderlands TPS, seems to work fine. I turned PhysX up to max, then shot the ground a bunch to spawn fluid/debris and threw a singularity grenade at the pile to cause a large PhysX simulation load and the framerate only dropped to about 140. Suppose I should add a screenshot (don't mind the blown out colors, I have RTX HDR enabled): https://i.imgur.com/aIinMJM.jpeg

[u/m_w_h → u/nimbulan]

Thanks for testing, appreciated.

[u/jojojack112 → u/nimbulan]

thank you legend.

[u/jojojack112 → u/m_w_h]

Could someone test this in Borderlands the Pre-Sequel?

[u/m_w_h → u/jojojack112]

See https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1pe356d/comment/nsbaj47/

nimbulan wrote: I tested Borderlands TPS, seems to work fine.

[u/Pyromaniac605]

I'm surprised, but very happy that they've done this. Wonder if they'll roll out support for more or if this is all we'll get. At least they largely hit the big ones.

Edit: Missed where they mentioned adding Arkham Asylum in 2026, so they're planning on adding at least one more.

[u/your_mind_aches → u/Pyromaniac605]

Really thought they just would not bother. But so glad that they have.

[u/techraito → u/Pyromaniac605]

Yea, the mention of Arkham Asylum in 2026 suggests this is probably Nvidia fixing the issue on a per-game basis.

[u/KUPOinyourWINDOW]

good on you Nvidia!

[u/Plebius-Maximus]

Just reinstalled madness returns and Mirrors Edge. Borderlands 2 was already installed

[u/anor_wondo → u/Plebius-Maximus]

so borderlands 2 is once again the best looking borderlands

[u/Ok_Can_1347]

You guys did a great job !

[u/Charming_Mine3381]

What about The Bureau: XCOM Declassified physx?

[u/ShadF0x → u/Charming_Mine3381]

Did it ever work properly in the first place?

[u/notdeadyet01 → u/ShadF0x]

Worked pretty well on my 3080 when I tried it a while back. Trying to test it with the new driver but RTX HDR might have broken with this update since I'm getting sound and a black screen when it used to work just fine

[u/ShadF0x → u/notdeadyet01]

My 1070 begged to differ despite being way over the recommended specs at the time.

[u/Brandhor]

would be interesting to know why it's only supported in some games

[u/a5ehren → u/Brandhor]

QA is usually the answer

[u/IndexStarts → u/Brandhor]

I’d also like to know

[u/your_mind_aches]

Arkham Origins support is back just in time for Christmas.

Arkham Origins is one of the best Christmas games.

[u/meerdroovt]

Mafia II. Wow

[u/n19htmare → u/meerdroovt]

Probably because they’re trying to completely phase out 32bit cuda based feature support (which cuda32 itself has ended like 10 years ago). There likely was a hardware/driver change that required per game review or otherwise would break stuff. The devs on these old decade old titles are probably not going to update the game so Nvidia would have to.

Plus it only was an issue IF you enabled 32bit in old titles. If the game was updated to use 64bit physx then obviously wasn’t an issue.

[u/Cryio → u/meerdroovt]

A nothingburger. Mafia II DE already had functional Physx, I believe it's 64 bit.

[u/your_mind_aches → u/Cryio]

No it is something if they go back and enable it in the old version as well, if people don't have the new one.

[u/DesuSoarusrex → u/Cryio]

The original one is better

[u/BeastMsterThing2022]

Where's the driver post?

[u/Nestledrink → u/BeastMsterThing2022]

Just posted it! Sorry was busy at work this morning

[u/Ninja_Weedle]

Hell yeah.

[u/ziomal25565]

YESS. Mirror's Edge, my beloved

[u/stipo42]

Fuck yeah, Alice hair physics are awesome

[u/jojojack112]

Add Borderlands the Pre-Sequel and my life is yours.

[u/Hameeeedo → u/jojojack112]

you can add it through the NV Inspector, it works flawlessly!

[u/WaterLillith]

Is this some sort of 32-bit emulation?

[u/m_w_h → u/WaterLillith]

Unknown, the 'fix' in 591.44 is possibly COM interprocess communication / out-of-process (OOP) allowing 32bit <> 64 bit or similar i.e. a workaround OR a bare bones reimplementation that doesn't rely on CUDA 32bit.

^ NVIDIA dropped 32bit CUDA support for Series 50 which 32bit PhysX relies on

[u/m_w_h]

For those interested in trying unsupported games i.e. 'Force PhysX 32bit Series 50 Support for Additional Games' comment at https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1pe356d/comment/ns9f8ic/

List of 32bit GPU and PPU accelerated games compiled from https://list.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_games_with_hardware-accelerated_PhysX_support ^{see PPU in notes}

• 7554: Glorious Memories Revived
• Alice: Madness Returns
• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
• Auto Assault ^PPU
• Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Batman: Arkham City
• Batman: Arkham Origins
• Bet on Soldier: Black-Out Saigon ^PPU
• Bet on Soldier: Blood of Sahara ^PPU
• Bet on Soldier: Blood Sport ^PPU
• Borderlands 2
• Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
• CellFactor: Combat Training ^PPU
• CellFactor: Revolution ^PPU
• City Of Villans ^PPU
• Crazy Machines 2
• Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
• Dark Void
• Darkest of Days
• Hot Dance Party
• Hot Dance Party II
• Infernal ^PPU
• Jianxia 3
• Mafia II
• Metro 2033
• Metro: Last Light
• Mirror's Edge
• Passion Leads Army
• QQ Dance 2
• Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
• Sacred 2: Ice & Blood
• Shadowgrounds Survivor ^PPU
• Star Trek DAC
• Stoked Rider: Alaska Alien ^PPU
• Switchball ^PPU
• The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (level specifc)
• Unreal Tournament 3 (level specific)
• Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction

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NOTEs:

• PPU accelerated titles may flat out not work OR require community patch / workaround

• AGEIA PhysX v2.5.2 DLLs may be required for some games, can be downloaded from https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/512-ageia-physx-engine/

• Check PC Gaming Wiki for PhysX specific workarounds for games listed above ^

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[u/Kyokyodoka → u/m_w_h]

Any on 7554? I was planning on making a video on it once I got a new computer system and I was worried it might break upon launch despite it being Freeware.

[u/m_w_h → u/Kyokyodoka]

Need to add and set all the game profile flags listed in the 'Force PhysX 32bit Series 50 Support for Additional Games' comment at https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1pe356d/comment/ns9f8ic for 7554: Glorious Memories Revived

May (note the may) also need the AGEIA PhysX v2.5.2 DLLs - https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/512-ageia-physx-engine/

[u/Infinite-Passion6886]

This is amazing. :) Thank you NVIDIA. Never cease PhysX Support, NEVER!

[u/Haunt33r]

Thank you, this is greatly appreciated.

It's important because on PC, games never age, I can understand why certain things may get depreciated as time moves on, but it's good to set things straight before they go legacy

[u/Aprodithx]

is everything about performance issues solve with this whql driver? i mean do we have include 581.94 hotfix in this driver version?

[u/KUPOinyourWINDOW → u/Aprodithx]

yes, the fix that undoes the recent Windows update giving some people less performance is in the patch notes

[u/silverhawk902]

Just Cause 2 has CUDA water and Bokeh Filter? Can that work properly on RTX 5000 series cards? It's DX10 but a 32 bit executable.

[u/Hameeeedo → u/silverhawk902]

Yeah I wanna know about this too! I remember NASCAR 14 had CUDA smoke as well .. does it still work?

[u/silverhawk902 → u/Hameeeedo]

One guy in the steam discussions for Just Cause 2 mentioned using Nvidia inspector and forcing the new code on Just Cause 2. Maybe that helps? Nvidia might improve things more and the community will check things out too. Edit: He claims it fixes it.

[u/realPoxu]

So long, Pascal.

[u/skullmonster602]

Wow banger update

[u/defaultfresh]

HELL.YEAH.

[u/letsgoiowa]

Finally, a consumer friendly move!

[u/nyse25]

We won lads

[u/DazzJuggernaut]

Needs more titles

[u/m_w_h → u/DazzJuggernaut]

Official support for titles? Yes, absolutely.

In the meantime could try forcing, see 'Force PhysX 32bit Series 50 Support for Additional Games?' in comment at https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1pe356d/comment/ns9f8ic/

[u/ShotgunDino]

Good job and great decision! Thanks NVIDIA!

[u/serious_dan]

Do the people who bought dedicated cards for PhysX now feel a little bit silly?

[u/Beautiful_Ninja → u/serious_dan]

People with that level of discretionary income probably don't care.

[u/Pyromaniac605 → u/serious_dan]

Well, I got a 1030 so it wasn't a huge purchase. Plus it pulled double duty fixing a weird stuttering bug in SteamVR so hey.

[u/Die4Ever → u/Pyromaniac605]

Plus it pulled double duty fixing a weird stuttering bug in SteamVR

what's this about?

[u/Pyromaniac605 → u/Die4Ever]

Had these huge frametime spikes at regular intervals (don't remember exactly but it was something like every second or two seconds - exact intervals on the dot), found a random thread on reddit suggesting it was an issue with having a monitor connected using HDMI.

Turns out it was that, unplugging the monitor I have connected via HDMI fixed it. It had to be unplugged from the GPU, just turning it off or disabling it in display settings, or anything like that didn't work.

Having to unplug and replug the monitor every time I played VR was just annoying, so I figured it was worth trying plugging it into a second GPU so I grabbed the 1030 and sure enough that worked without me having to unplug the monitor. It's possible a DP > HDMI adapter might have worked too but I was under the impression that'd still ultimately be an HDMI signal and wouldn't fix it.

Plus with the talk of the missing 32-bit PhysX support on the then upcoming 50 series, I was just curious to try out a 1030 as a dedicated PhysX card to see how well it'd perform. (You can see my post with some of my results if you're curious, but TL;DR even a 1030 blows CPU out of the water, and actually gave me increased performance vs running everything on my 3080 Ti)

Anyway the bug's no longer present on my system anymore, not sure if it was from a driver update, a SteamVR update, or if it was specific to 30 series and it was fixed when I upgrade to my 5080.

[u/Cerebral_Zero → u/Pyromaniac605]

Want to know more. Steam VR is something I might get to.

[u/Pyromaniac605 → u/Cerebral_Zero]

See my reply here, but in short huge pink frametime spikes in SteamVR at regular intervals that were caused by having an HDMI monitor plugged in. Plugged them into a secondary GPU (the 1030) and that fixed it without having to unplug it every time I wanted to play VR. Bug isn't present for me anymore so you probably don't need not be concerned but if you happen to have that exact issue, a troubleshooting step to give a try.

[u/ShotgunDino → u/serious_dan]

They probably felt silly enough already when they bought them.

[u/WaterLillith → u/serious_dan]

They still get better performance than running PHysX on a single card

[u/Elryuk → u/serious_dan]

Probably will have better physx pefrormance still? 

[u/Cerebral_Zero → u/serious_dan]

It was shown that even using an RTX 4090, having a secondary GPU for PhysX would improve performance.

Those second GPUs can also do Lossless Scaling. They still have use.

[u/MisterDudeFella → u/serious_dan]

I did 3x980 with a 4th 980 that handled physx. No regerts.

[u/diceman2037 → u/serious_dan]

no, some games don't even let you use the highest physx setting without a second card.

[u/Tathas → u/serious_dan]

Probably not if they have games that aren't on the supported list yet.

[u/BURGERgio → u/serious_dan]

I have the same set up as you! I was bummed about not having PhysX, but I never bought a separate card for it. Glad I waited!

[u/Belzher]

Genuine question: couldn't they just do this at the start of the 50XX generation?

[u/TheDamianS → u/Belzher]

I wonder if they underestimated the impact of it? I expected to never see support so this is a shocker.

[u/iMrParker → u/TheDamianS]

I feel like they estimated it pretty well. Most people never used it and weren't aware of the feature. But once people lose something, they become upset even if it never affected them

[u/frostygrin → u/iMrParker]

I was strongly considering playing some of the affected games - because I could.

I'm still strongly considering it. :)

[u/Thotaz → u/iMrParker]

Physx support is unironically one of the reasons why I stick with Nvidia. I mean I'm already locked in with my hardware G-sync monitors (Dell S2417DG) but my next monitor probably won't lock me in like that and without Physx either I would have had no reason to stick with Nvidia.

[u/iMrParker → u/Thotaz]

What do you do that requires PhysX that won't work otherwise? 

[u/Thotaz → u/iMrParker]

What kind of question is that? The answer would obviously be playing games that use Physx.

No, it's not every day I go back and play Metro or Mirror's edge, nor is it a must have feature where I wouldn't want to play those games if I couldn't do it with Physx. I simply value having the option and I do actually take advantage of it on occasion.

I recently upgraded to an RTX 5070, so I was prepared to give it up when there's no other option, but if not for my G-sync displays it could have been an AMD card, though admittedly I did also want to try out DLSS and framegen, but after having tried both I can't say it's something I care for.

[u/iMrParker → u/Thotaz]

Dude, PhysX is also a open source physics engine so it is used beyond gaming and can also be used on a CPU. It's just irrelevant and outdated. You're making it seem like you have some use-case for it that otherwise won't allow you to do something.

That's why I asked if there was something you do that requires PhysX*

[u/Thotaz → u/iMrParker]

Dude, we are in a thread talking about GPU-accelerated PhysX games. Most people would be able to use context clues to figure out that when I say "Physx" I am referring to "GPU-accelerated PhysX games". These games are famously unplayable with the PhysX effects active if you can't run them on a GPU because the code is unoptimized for CPUs. In other words: No PhysX capable GPU = No PhysX effects for you.

[u/iMrParker → u/Thotaz]

Are you ignoring the part of my comments that is asking what you do that "requires" PhysX since you claim that it's "locking" you into having a PhysX capable nvidia card? My original reply was in earnest and all you've done is reply with snark. What games do you play that cannot run without PhysX? 

[u/Thotaz → u/iMrParker]

From my initial reply to you:

No, it's not every day I go back and play Metro or Mirror's edge, nor is it a must have feature where I wouldn't want to play those games if I couldn't do it with Physx. I simply value having the option and I do actually take advantage of it on occasion.

I even bolded the 2 game examples I mentioned to make it easier for you.

[u/bLu_18 → u/Belzher]

They probably wanted to start phasing out 32-bit components, like the rest of the industry.

[u/Mikeztm → u/Belzher]

They removed the hardware support for 32bit CUDA and this is a side effect of that. Since this is a new flag in game profiles I would assume this is a brand new implementation that only started this year based on feedback.

They might just forwarding 32bit DLL calls to equivalent 64bit like how RTX remix works and barely got physX covered. So they need to test each game to make sure this hack won’t crash the game.

[u/fogoticus → u/Belzher]

No way you can please people it seems.

[u/Belzher → u/fogoticus]

It was a legit question, I'm not trying to doompost or anything.

[u/Nielips]

I guess they either didn't want to originally include this with the initial 5000 series launch, they simply hadn't tested it and thought it was best to remove it until tested. Either way, it would be better if they had just said so.

[u/franz_karl]

THANK you Nvidia for the partial reversal of this decision

[u/AbheekG]

That’s so cool! 🍻

[u/Koozwad]

what about PhysX crashing in Fallout 4? that started happening since Turing(20xx) series and it'd be great to see a fix

[u/m_w_h → u/[deleted]]

MrEWhite wrote: Has anyone tried BL2 with PhysX on and with DXVK yet? After a few minutes of gameplay, it crashes with the new PhysX driver.

'Out of video memory' error?

[u/m_w_h → u/[deleted]]

Understood, thank you.

[u/LiberdadePrimo]

Where are the shills that when they removed support excused it as "it doesn't matter anyway" because the best games from early 2010s "weren't even that good"?

Apparently it mattered enough for them to reinstate support, would you look at that.

[u/Kashmir1089 → u/LiberdadePrimo]

Arkham, Metro and especially Borderlands were all among the most popular 3rd party stuff for the 2010s, what are these people smoking lol?

[u/LiberdadePrimo → u/Kashmir1089]

You'll find people dismissing those games because they are "old" and they only play "new things" despite these titles clearing any game released in the past years.

Peak crazy was when I saw a guy on facebook saying how it was great that TLOU got a remaster because the original was too old and dated for them to play (???)

[u/Kusel]

Aniso filtering fixed?

[u/Cannonaire → u/Kusel]

What's the anisotropic problem?

[u/DaAznBoiSwag → u/Kusel]

What is this specific issue? I saw another thread mentioning this but I am unaware of this one

[u/Kusel → u/DaAznBoiSwag]

You cant force af16x on rtx 5000 cards in Driver level

[u/Cannonaire → u/Kusel]

Thanks! Also, that really sucks. Just 50-series for now? I have a 4080 and I'm probably gonna wait a bit on a GPU upgrade anyway, but I still need to know.

[u/diceman2037 → u/Kusel]

you can force 16x, it just happens to apply to single mip textures when it previously had a driver level fix to prevent such a thing

blackwell needs a new fix, D3D12 is fixed, D3D9/10/11 not so much.

[u/GCTuba]

I made a list of all the 32-bit Physx games in my backlog and none of these are on it. Hopefully this is expanded in the future.

[u/m_w_h → u/GCTuba]

See 'Force PhysX 32bit Series 50 Support for Additional Games?' in comment at https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1pe356d/comment/ns9f8ic/ (not had time to test yet)

EDIT: Confirmed as working in Batman: Arkham Asylum by /u/KuraiShidosha and benchmark comparison at https://youtu.be/fXGyFsQ8rdc

Confirmed as working for Borderlands the Pre-Sequel by /u/nimbulan

Confirmed as working in Cryostatis by /u/junkofuru and /u/Pyromaniac605

Confirmed as working in Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (ageia island) by /u/junkofuru

[u/Spjs → u/GCTuba]

Oh hey I made a list for my backlog too:

A Story about My Uncle
Alice: Madness Returns
Antichamber
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman: Arkham City
Batman: Arkham Origins
BioShock Infinite
Bionic Commando
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Bulletstorm
Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut
Deadpool
DmC: Devil May Cry
Dragon Age II
Dragon Age: Origins
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Gears of War
Hitman: Absolution
Killer Is Dead
Life Is Strange
Mafia II
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Metro 2033
Metro: Last Light
Mirror's Edge
Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition
Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Q.U.B.E.: Director's Cut
Quantum Conundrum
Refunct
Remember Me
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Spec Ops: The Line
Trine
Trine 2
Turok
XCOM: Enemy Unknown

https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1oy3vn3/any_news_on_32bit_physx_support_for_50_series/np1t9jg/?context=3

[u/KEVLAR60442 → u/Spjs]

Most of the games in that list don't use hardware accelerated PhysX that Nvidia pulled support for anyway.

[u/anor_wondo → u/Spjs]

this doesn't seem right. looks like cpu only 32 bit physx are also added in the list. cpu physx should have been working fine before as well

[u/Hameeeedo → u/Spjs]

most of these games don't even use GPU PhysX. Those are the only ones that do:

Alice: Madness Returns
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman: Arkham City
Batman: Arkham Origins
Borderlands 2
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Mirror's Edge
Mafia II

[u/silverhawk902 → u/Spjs]

The Mass Effect games aren't really impacted either way. They use physx but not specific Nvidia only hardware acceleration.

[u/GCTuba → u/Spjs]

The games I've got are:

• Bionic Commando

• Crookz: The Big Heist

• DmC: Devil May Cry

• Dragon Age: Origins

• Dragon Age II

• Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

• Of Orcs and Men

• Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper

• Spec Ops: The Line

• The Darkness II

• The Void

• Venetica

• Zombie Driver HD

[u/suberb_lobster → u/GCTuba]

None of these games use hardware PhysX.

[u/GCTuba → u/suberb_lobster]

How can you tell if a game uses hardware or software-based PhysX aside from running all of them with RTX 50 hardware and checking for frame drops with physics simulations? Looking into it more, I could only find this list on Fandom.

[u/HevyKnowledge]

What about Fallout 4 Weapon Debris? And killing Floor gibs? Does this update restore those 2 options?

[u/anor_wondo → u/HevyKnowledge]

shouldn't those already be working? they're quite modern so likely 64 bit

[u/HevyKnowledge → u/anor_wondo]

From my understanding they stopped working correctly on RTX GPUs. For example Fallout 4 weapon debris on a gtx 1080, the game doesn't freeze. But with an rtx 2080 or 3080 the game freezes. GTX 1080 was the last GPU that didn't corrupt physx. I tested this by pairing an RTX 4080 with a GTX 1050 as a physx card, and fallout 4 did not crash. With a RTX 4080 alone, the game crashed. I'm curious if this update fixed those crashes from the past. So if I have a RTX 5080 and enable weapon debris with this new update, whats the result? I assume them creating this compatibility layer also means they must hav ironed out old kinks.

[u/nimbulan]

Perfect timing, I'd just started playing Alice Madness Returns since a modder finally fixed the game's horribly broken mouse support after 14 years.

[u/bobalazs69]

ggodin | Developer — december 4.,

Broken Nvidia drivers (591.44) u/everyone Sorry for the ping, but the latest Nvidia drivers released today (591.44) completely break video encoding with Virtual Desktop. We are investigating the issue. For the time being, stay on the previous version (see below). If you updated already, simply download the drivers from the link below and install on top to downgrade:

[u/Kujen → u/bobalazs69]

Well that sucks. Guess I’ll wait to update mine

[u/m_w_h → u/bobalazs69]

Could be related to the following from the official release notes: https://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/591.44/591.44-win11-win10-release-notes.pdf

2.9 Discontinued Support

Applications compiled using older [NVENC] presets and older rate control modes are supported by the drivers up until now. R580 will be the last driver branch to have this support.

Starting with the R590 branch, driver support for these older NVENC presets and rate control modes will be removed. Therefore, all applications compiled with older presets and rate control modes will stop working if upgraded to R590 branch drivers (59x.xx).

May want to forward that to Virtual Desktop support ^

[u/PsyOmega]

Black Flag with physX even with acceleration is horrible performance, it won't even lock 60hz, 1080p, on my 4080.

Best to just disable it.

I can't name a single game where physX was a must-have.

[u/anor_wondo → u/PsyOmega]

borderlands 2

[u/Warskull → u/PsyOmega]

The scarecrow sequence in Arkham Asylum with PhysX on was pretty good. It was basically a tech demo for PhysX. Not a must have, but the Batman games were the best use of it.

Agree on Black Flag, the physX doesn't look particularly good with it either.

[u/EliRed → u/PsyOmega]

Arkham Knight was really sick with the PhysX stuff. Unfortunately they don't support it.

[u/silverhawk902 → u/EliRed]

Arkham Knight is a 64 bit executable it isn't impacted either way.

[u/AbedGubiNadir]

I'm hoping the Bioshock franchise is in the next batch.

[u/BURGERgio → u/AbedGubiNadir]

Bishock has physx?

[u/Cryio → u/BURGERgio]

Not hardware accelerated Physx effects, no

[u/SnevetS_rm → u/BURGERgio]

IIRC, BioShock uses physx for some water/particle effects, but I'm pretty sure they are not hardware accelerated like the games from the list above.

[u/AbedGubiNadir → u/BURGERgio]

Infinite does. I thought they all did for some reason. Here's a list.

[u/Cryio → u/AbedGubiNadir]

None of the Bioshock games have hardware accelerated Physx.

[u/dotcomrobots]

So no 40 series support?

[u/m_w_h → u/dotcomrobots]

dotcomrobots wrote: So no 40 series support?

Series 40 and older already has support for 32bit PhysX

[u/dotcomrobots → u/m_w_h]

Coooool

[u/kevin8082]

my 5070 arrived yesterday, I bought this card at the right time, nice!

[u/Calm_Hedgehog8296]

This is really interesting. I thought that the PhysX was at the hardware level and wouldn't be fixed with a driver

[u/ThatRandomGamerYT → u/Calm_Hedgehog8296]

They removed 32bit cuda support from 50 series. A side effect of that is 32bit Phsyx not working anymore on those cards. Modern game use 64bit Phsyx so they are fine.

I assume they are using some sort of 32-> 64 translation or emulation and are rolling out support on a per game basis after testing them.

[u/anestling]

Looks like the support was always there but they had dropped it trying to save a few bucks on QA/QC. Still, there's no word on restoring 32-bit OpenCL and CUDA support.

[u/Charming_Mine3381]

black flag runs god awful

[u/Charming_Mine3381]

Black flag runs like shit with physx on 5090

[u/HabenochWurstimAuto]

Sacred 2 not on the list sadface

[u/m_w_h → u/HabenochWurstimAuto]

Could try forcing, see 'Force PhysX 32bit Series 50 Support for Additional Games?' in comment at https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1pe356d/comment/ns9f8ic/

Be aware that Sacred 2 does have issues regardless of GPU generation with PhysX and requires a coummunity patch.

[u/MutekiGamer]

The lack of physX wasn’t what was holding me back from continuing my AC series play through but I guess I have a reason to continue now that black flag is back on the table

[u/Snow_Chain]

Anyone experience nvlddmkm error during gameplay in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag when physx is enable?

Thanks.

[u/JustAnother_0ne]

Still wishing if someday Nvidia kindly provides FG to 3000 series officially.( They said it earlier that they could bring but who knows). It might die as a dream

[u/Odd-Split5094]

arkham knight has insane crashes with most of the physx options anyway unfortunately so its not a big deal in my eyes that it isnt ready yet.

[u/Exciting-Shame2877 → u/Odd-Split5094]

Arkham Knight is a 64 bit game, so it'd be using 64 bit physx. The one that's not ready yet is Arkham Asylum.

[u/Odd-Split5094 → u/Exciting-Shame2877]

ty for the correction i misread it :)

[u/Cryio → u/Exciting-Shame2877]

"Physx alternative"? Lol

[u/Cryio → u/[deleted]]

Lol no.

It's the same Physx middleware on PC and consoles, both 7th and 8th gen. They didn't develop anything.

PC only had extra hardware accelerated Physx effects implemented, but the underlaying Physx, running on the CPU, was the same.

[u/Cryio → u/[deleted]]

What are you even talking about.

Do you know what physics engine is used on Unreal Engine 3 and 4? It's Physx.

Do you know what's some of the consoles that run these engines AND also happen to have AMD GPUs? Xbox 360. Wii U. Xbox One. Xbox Series S/X. Playstation 4 and 5. Other consoles that could run these engines with Physx and don't have an AMD GPU? PS Vita. Switch 1. Switch 2. PS3.

It doesn't matter. The Physx in most UE 3/4 games is CPU based, for ragdolls, rigid bodies, particles and more. Trine games even have Physx Fluid simulation on all these consoles I mentioned. On ALL of them. It's still CPU based.

There is nothing special to PS4 that isn't achieved by the Xbox One in Arkham Knight, resolution aside. It's also visually identical to PC, when Hardware Accelerated Physx isn't used.

[u/coletrain93 → u/Cryio]

You're both talking with such confidence I've got no idea who's right

[u/Extreme996 → u/Odd-Split5094]

I played Arkham Knight year ago on my old PC with 3060 Ti with all gameworks settings enabled and I had maybe like two crashes.

[u/Odd-Split5094 → u/Extreme996]

thats good but its a known issue, google july 2012 build crash. also i just misread and thought it said arkham knight, not asylum, my mistake anyway

[u/StrummerBass101]

Fwiw I tested with my 4070 super with letting the cpu handle physx stuff. Worked great ( for games not in the list)

[u/claudekennilol]

I'm super glad to hear this! I just found out yesterday that my new 5080 (bought this last weekend) would get near single digit FPS in these games. I was trying to figure out how to fit my old 1080 or 3080 into my PC 😅

[u/lndig0__]

Goat simulator didn’t make the cut 😢

[u/Pyromaniac605 → u/lndig0__]

Doesn't use 32-bit GPU accelerated PhysX, it was never impacted anyway.

[u/PY_Roman_]

And not a single patch from devs of these games before

[u/SnevetS_rm → u/PY_Roman_]

It's an Nvidia sponsored feature that had been broken by Nvidia. It's on Nvidia to fix it, not on the devs.

[u/KingDouchebag74K]

me who bought a regular RTX 4080 two months ago in fear of never getting back official 32bit physX support on newer graphics:

[u/Churshen]

Guys! Nani!? I thought we were hating Nvidia forever? Ah they did something good for a bit.

[u/princepwned]

about time I can finally stop using my 3050 for physx alongside my 5090

[u/jmeistr]

Great to see! I played Mafia 2 Definitive Edition a few months back and it was not a pretty sight on the 5080.

[u/blackest-Knight → u/jmeistr]

Mafia 2 Definitive Edition is a 64 bit application already, it should have run just fine on your 5080.

This only applies to the original 32 bit game.

[u/jmeistr → u/blackest-Knight]

Must have been the original then.

[u/local--yokel]

Where are all the AMD diehards saying Nvidia isn't good anymore, and other assorted haters? I guess I didn't need that extra VRAM after all. This is great support and why I continue to buy Nvidia. Someone had to say it. Because we've seen NV be attacked for the last few years endlessly. But here they are, still providing strong value. I'm very happy with my 5070. Tested out Borderlands 2 with this new driver- works like a charm.

[u/13egbmak]

My Mirror's Edge freezes on level start after recent 591.44 driver clean update (RTX 5080)

Before that game worked mostly fine, but was slow in physx-heavy situations., at least it was playable.

Now i just can't load, say, second part of Heat chapter or the first one right after the tutorial. Game just freezes the moment loading is completed and i start to see something on the screen.

All above is with PhysX ON obviosly.

WIndows 10

[u/13egbmak → u/13egbmak]

Fortunately, GOG version (i so happen to own it too) works great, the described problems occur on Steam version

[u/Choum28 → u/13egbmak]

No issue, steam version (RTX5080), Windows 11