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Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33099518

TLDR: NVIDIA removed support for PhysX with the 50 series GPUs, resulting in worse performance with PhysX games than previous GPU generations

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Mirror's Edge actually had a place with tons of broken glass falling down, where the framerate would drop into the single digits if it used CPU PhysX. I remember that because it shipped with an outdated PhysX library that would run on the CPU even though I had an Nvidia GPU, so I had to delete the game's PhysX library to force it to use the version from the graphics driver, in order to get it to playable performance. If you didn't have an Nvidia driver you would need to disable PhysX for that segment to be playable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, the good old days 😂 having to manually fix drivers but with limited help from the internet

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I disagree; people on the internet were a lot more helpful back then. These days it's difficult to get people to care about anything, let alone compel them to help.