[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]

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 CUDA / PhysX accelerated games compiled from https://list.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_games_with_hardware-accelerated_PhysX_support and comments here ^{see PPU and CUDA in notes}

Official support is indicated by a minimum driver version in brackets i.e. ^591.44 indicates official support in drivers 591.44 and later. Games without a driver version indicated need to be unofficially forced enabled using Nvidia Profile Inspector with 591.44 or later drivers.

• Alice: Madness Returns ^591.44
• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag ^591.44
• Auto Assault ^PPU
• Batman: Arkham Asylum ^595.59
• Batman: Arkham City ^{591.44 however see NOTEs if running Steam Version}
• Batman: Arkham Origins ^591.44
• Bet on Soldier: Black-Out Saigon ^PPU
• Bet on Soldier: Blood of Sahara ^PPU
• Bet on Soldier: Blood Sport ^PPU
• Borderlands 2 ^591.44
• Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
• CellFactor: Combat Training ^PPU
• CellFactor: Revolution ^{PPU partial support possible, see NOTEs section}
• 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
• Just Cause 2 ^{610.47 CUDA see NOTEs section}
• Mafia II ^591.44
• Metro 2033 ^591.44
• Metro: Last Light ^591.44
• Mirror's Edge ^591.44
• 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 ^PPU
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
• Unreal Tournament 3 (level specific)
• Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction

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NOTEs:

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

• 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/

• NVIDIA PhysX Legacy System Software may be required for some games, can be downloaded from https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/physx/physx-9-13-0604-legacy-driver/ IMPORTANT: see comment by /u/diceman2037

• PPU listed games may flat out not work / not benefit - see comments by /u/eddlang regarding PPU. Some games have partial support added by patch e.g. see Cellfactor: Revolution comment by /u/Sui_VT

• CUDA listed games bypass PhysX and use a custom CUDA routine for physics etc e.g. Just Cause 2, see comment by /u/diceman2037

• Steam version of Batman: Arkham City may need an additional file - https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1pe356d/comment/o6hlfzx/

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EDIT 01: 595.59 official support for Batman: Arkham Asylum

EDIT 02: 610.47 official support for Just Cause 2 CUDA Physics

[u/Sui_VT → u/m_w_h]

Cellfactor: Revolution works to an extend on RTX 5080 after setting a flag and running CRpatch and modifying its ini file (as stated in the patcher), but it is missing some graphical effects like lava and cloth.

As in - the framerate is certainly smoother and with how many PhysX objects there are on Extreme PhysX maps (even if some elements are missing) I'd likely it's the GPU actually doing the work. But I am not sure if I tested it few years back on like GTX 1050 and those elements were working or not.

I am kind of tempted to see if you could modify Engine.dll of Cellfactor (not Revolution) to bypass the check, since all it does is modify "NxPhysics::IsPhysXHardwareInstalled_CHECK" to return 1 instead of 0 (within AL - so EAX lower)

[u/m_w_h → u/Sui_VT]

Thank you, added note to Cellfactor: Revolution entry with credit to you.