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Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs (www.theverge.com)

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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] 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (16 children)

It only ever got deployed in a few dozen games

Is the only sentence in the entire article you need to be aware of.

This is rage-bait.

This is a list of the games it affects:

Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Crazy Machines 2
Unreal Tournament 3
Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction
Hot Dance Party
QQ Dance
Hot Dance Party II
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
Mirror's Edge
Armageddon Riders
Darkest of Days
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Sacred 2: Ice & Blood
Shattered Horizon
Star Trek DAC
Metro 2033
Dark Void
Blur
Mafia II
Hydrophobia: Prophecy
Jianxia 3
Alice: Madness Returns
MStar
Batman: Arkham City
7554
Depth Hunter
Deep Black
Gas Guzzlers: Combat Carnage
The Secret World
Continent of the Ninth (C9)
Borderlands 2
Passion Leads Army
QQ Dance 2
Star Trek
Mars: War Logs
Metro: Last Light
Rise of the Triad
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Batman: Arkham Origins
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

CPU accelerated physics were severeley dumbed down to make PhysX look better and there are several high profile games on that list that will forever have physics stupidified because of corporate BS back then that affects them now.

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