Nvidia’s new 50-series graphics playing cards simply aren’t nearly as good at working sure older video games as earlier {hardware} generations had been, some PC avid gamers have found. With its newest technology of GPUs, Nvidia has quietly eliminated assist for PhysX, a physics simulation know-how that was utilized in a lot of standard titles within the early 2010s.
In a Reddit post, as noticed by The Verge, one consumer questioned why PhysX was all of a sudden turned off by default, or when turned on was pressured to run on the CPU–causing main efficiency points in video games designed for GPU-enhanced PhysX. Responding to a post on the Nvidia forums, the corporate confirmed that PhysX has successfully been discontinued, resulting from Nvidia ending assist for 32-bit CUDA functions for 50-series graphics playing cards and future generations. Whereas the tip of assist for 32-bit CUDA was famous in a brief support article, Nvidia by no means explicitly talked about the impression to PhysX, or famous which video games is likely to be impacted with the sunsetting of this know-how.
PhysX’s GPU-accelerated physics tech was acquired by Nvidia in 2008, and its real looking simulation of shifting fabric, liquids, smoke and fog, and shatter particle results was carried out in a lot of standard AAA video games of the time–including Borderlands 2, Murderer’s Creed Black Flag, the Batman: Arkham trilogy, and the primary two Metro video games.
Whereas PhysX is now largely defunct and hasn’t been carried out in new video games for a while, many avid gamers had been nonetheless dissatisfied to find it had been discontinued with out warning. Customers on the Resetera boards have since banded collectively to create a list of games that will likely be impacted by the tip of PhysX assist. The record additionally notes how properly every sport will run when utilizing the CPU for PhysX, with customers testing every sport individually. The total record features a little underneath 50 video games, however embrace some standard titles from the interval between 2007-2014.
Earlier Nvidia generations, together with the 40-, 30-, and 20- collection will proceed to assist 32-bit CUDA functions, which means avid gamers who play lots of older video games could also be higher to stay to an older graphics card in the interim. As is normal for a brand new technology of graphics playing cards, the brand new 50-series GPUs are fairly exhausting to seek out for the time being, anyway.