NVIDIA STOPPED Supporting Old Games Tech!

Опубликовано: 27 Февраль 2025
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This news right here hurts, and I hate NVIDIA for this if they continue with this direction.

RTX 50s GPUs are ditching PhysX support for older games. What does that mean? Well, there are some older games that use NVIDIA PhysX, which is their proprietary physics simulation middleware for a lot of objects in games like dust, particles, cloths, etc. You can run games that have PhysX using CPU, but it would obviously run better using GPU, and NVIDIA just removes that support in the newer RTX 50 series cards, but not the older series cards, or at least for now.

This means that if you want to play older games like, say, the Batman Arkham games (City is my favorite), and you want to turn on NVIDIA PhysX, you need to have older NVIDIA GPUs that can run PhysX, or run PhysX using CPU. The Batman Arkham games are old. So, running the PhysX through a modern CPU should be fine, right? Nope. It'll dip your framerate to the 30s even on modern CPUs like the Ryzen 7 7700X. That's a great CPU, and so is the 5800X3D, but it's clearly not enough for running PhysX.

Alternatively, don't use PhysX at all, which still works, and you probably won't notice the difference that much, but again, you're definitely missing out on old technologies that make older games look great for their time.

I'm really pissed at this. Yes, we buy new hardware to play new games, but we also want to play older games, and you're telling me that the latest generation hardware cannot run the games as well as older hardware because they removed the support for it? What if in the next 10 years, all the old GPUs are no longer being sold anywhere? Does that mean we have to turn off PhysX and miss out on some effects?

I love how they're doing it quietly so that it doesn't get attention. Well, it did get our attention, and I do not tolerate losing compatibility to these older and amazing titles, especially Arkham City. For those of you who are rocking NVIDIA GPUs below the 50 series, you're good to go. So, you're not going to be affected by it for now. You will be in the future. So, keep that in mind.