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Nvidia RTX 5090 and 50-series cards drop support for PhysX, affecting older games


Nvidia’s PhysX wowed gamers back in the day in titles like Batman: Arkham Asylum

It allowed developers to implement more convincing particle and clothing effects, like interactive smoke plumes or glass that shatters into pieces. Several marquee releases employed PhysX such as Batman: Arkham Asylum, Mafia II, and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. A Nvidia staff responded, saying: “This is expected behavior as 32-bit CUDA applications are deprecated on GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs”.

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