{"id":1216833,"date":"2025-02-18T18:25:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T23:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216833"},"modified":"2025-02-18T18:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T23:25:45","slug":"nvidias-50-series-cards-drop-support-for-physx-impacting-older-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216833","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia\u2019s 50-series cards drop support for PhysX, impacting older games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Most PC games that you can play on a modern PC would run faster on an <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/01\/geforce-rtx-50-gpus-run-from-1999-to-549-lean-heavily-on-ai-generated-frames\/\">Nvidia RTX 5080 or 5090<\/a> than, say, a <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2017\/11\/nvidia-gtx-1070-ti-review\/\">GTX 1070<\/a>. But some games, from a particular phase of enthusiasm for particles, destructible environments, and smooth-moving hair, will take a notable hit if their owners upgrade to the latest Nvidia cards.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/physx-sdk\">PhysX<\/a>, once a dedicated physics simulation tool and card that became a selling point for Nvidia&#8217;s gear, has been largely deprecated on Nvidia 50-series cards. The transition was announced in January, but it seems to have taken some time for someone to notice the impact on 32-bit, PhysX-enabled games (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamesn.com\/nvidia\/geforce-rtx-50-series-cards-physx-support\">as seen by PCGamesN<\/a>). The most recent of these affected games, <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creek IV: Black Flag,<\/em>\u00a0came out in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>What follows is a brief primer on PhysX: what it was, what it did, and why it&#8217;s left out of Nvidia&#8217;s road map.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/02\/batman-arkham-games-among-those-losing-physx-powers-on-newer-nvidia-gpus\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/02\/batman-arkham-games-among-those-losing-physx-powers-on-newer-nvidia-gpus\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most PC games that you can play on a modern PC would run faster on an Nvidia RTX 5080 or 5090 than, say, a GTX 1070. But some games, from a particular phase of enthusiasm for particles, destructible environments, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216833\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}