Popular games like Borderlands 2 and Mirror's Edge will now run properly with Nvidia RTX 50 series GPUs.
Nvidia released its first RTX 50-series graphics cards earlier this year without support for PhysX, the GPU-accelerated technology that allows games to simulate realistic glass shards, moving liquids, smoke, fog, and more. Now, Nvidia is bringing back PhysX support for its RTX 50-series GPUs for popular games like Borderlands 2, Mirror's Edge, and Batman: Arkham City.
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PhysX support by demand
“most-played PhysX-accelerated games gamers’ GeForce, enabling full performance on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, in line with existing PhysX support on previous-generation GPUs,” says Nvidia.
PhysX was a major part of games like Borderlands 2 and Mirror's Edge, and was not initially released with Nvidia's latest GPUs because the RTX 50 series dropped support for 32-bit CUDA. This prevented these older games, which used PhysX, from being GPU-accelerated on Nvidia's latest GPUs. Some titles like Borderlands 2 dropped below 60fps because the games relied on the CPU to render PhysX effects. Some titles like Borderlands 2 dropped below 60fps because the games relied on the CPU to provide PhysX effects.
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Nvidia has now created “custom support” for the most popular PhysX-accelerated games, but not all games are supported yet. Here’s the current list:
– Alice: Madness Returns
– Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
–Batman: Arkham City
– Batman: Arkham Origins
– Borderlands 2
– Mafia II
–Metro 2033
– Metro: Last Light
– Mirror’s Edge
Nvidia also says it plans to support Batman: Arkham Asylum “in the first part of 2026,” but there’s no mention of additional games. PhysX has always been limited to a small number of titles, but members of the Resetera forum have documented more than 40 games that have been affected by the removal of PhysX support on RTX 50-series GPUs. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that Nvidia will fully support all of these older PhysX games.
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You can download the new Game Ready driver (591.44) from the Nvidia website or through the Nvidia app.
