NVIDIA adds PhysX support to GeForce RTX 50 cards

NVIDIA today (4) announced the release of the new GeForce Game Ready (591.44) driver, which adds support for the most classic games played with 32-bit GPU-accelerated PhysX on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.

The new cards were released at the beginning of the year, with 32-bit CUDA support discontinued. This means that PhysX effects in many old and beloved games are not GPU accelerated on these cards.

With the release of the new driver, NVIDIA is adding dedicated support for the PhysX games most played by GeForce owners, ensuring the full performance of GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, in line with existing PhysX support on previous generation cards.

As noted by NVIDIA, the following games can now be enjoyed with PhysX via GPU acceleration using this technology on the GeForce RTX 50:

• Alice: Madness returns
• Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
• Batman: Arkham City
• Batman: Arkham Origins
• Border areas 2
• The second mafia
• Metro 2033
• Metro: Last Light
• Mirror edge

The company also said that support for Batman: Arkham Asylum is expected to arrive in the first half of 2026.

However, a user on the ResetEra forum discovered that it is possible to force the use of PhysX on the RTX 50 through NVIDIA Inspector in any game that features the technology.

“The 0x5067ECC4 setting in Nvidia Inspector controls whether PhysX hardware is running or not. Forcing the value to 0x00000001 allows PhysX to run in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. It’s time to try out more games!”

In addition to testing with Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, he has tested with Batman: Arkham Asylum and has confirmed that he is working there as well.

Along with the addition of PhysX on the RTX 50, the new driver brings improvements to Battlefield 6, prepares players’ systems for the Winter Offensive update, which arrives on December 9 with new content, and delivers improvements to DLSS Ray Reconstruction resolution in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.