Neowin News Feed for: Physx

Our tests show lack of Nvidia PhysX brutally hammers even most powerful AMD, Intel CPUs

Sayan Sen — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:06:01 +0000

Nvidia's PhysX is a physics technology in games that has been around for a very long. However, it still manages to bring powerful modern CPUs to their knees. Read more...

Nvidia finally makes PhysX and Flow source code open

Sayan Sen — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 05:12:01 +0000

Nvidia has finally open-sourced the source code for PhysX and Flow SDKs that help in physics simulations. Read more...

This reddit user bought a RTX 3050 to pair with a RTX 5090 and uncripple 32-bit PhysX games

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:56:01 +0000

Following confirmation that Nvidia does not support PhysX for 32-bit games anymore with the RTX 50 series, someone has found an interesting solution to the problem. Read more...

Nvidia RTX 50 series doesn't support GPU PhysX for 32-bit games

Jay Kakade — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:38:01 +0000

Nvidia killed PhysX support on the RTX 50 series for 32-bit games, which significantly impacts performance in older titles. Read more...

NVIDIA releases GeForce 355.98 WHQL drivers for Windows 10

Matt Blowes — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 04:42:01 +0000

The latest NVIDIA Geforce WHQL driver update now enables PhysX FleX technology in Killing Floor 2. The update will also bring support for the new GTX 980 for notebooks. Read more...

NVIDIA PhysX demo shows highly realistic water effects

John Callaham — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:27:44 +0000

A programmer that works at NVIDIA on the PhysX team has posted some videos that show off some impressive and highly realistic watch effect which use a technique called Position Based Fluids. Read more...

NVIDIA PhysX SDK brought to the Wii

Sam Alderwick — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:45:16 +0000

It was only last week that NVIDIA announced they had made their PhysX SDK available for the Playstation 3. This week, NVIDIA have announced they are bringing PhysX to the Nintendo Wii, by making the... Read more...

NVIDIA to bring PhysX support to PS3

Sam Alderwick — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:13:20 +0000

NVIDIA announced in a press release today that it has signed an agreement which will allow registered PS3 developers free access to the binary version of the NVIDIA PhysX software development kit (SDK). The kit... Read more...

2K and EA to use NVIDIA PhysX technology

Sam Alderwick — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:37:32 +0000

Both EA Games and 2K Games have licensed the NVIDIA PhysX engine for use by the studios. EA had already implemented PhysX technology in Mirrors Edge for the PC. The PhysX engine "works across all... Read more...

nVidia to Add PhysX to Geforce 8-Cards

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:10:46 +0000

During Nvidia's fourth-quarter financial results conference call, Nvidia shed a little more light on its acquisition of Ageia and what it plans to do with the firm's PhysX technology. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed that Nvidia's... Read more...

Nvidia snaps up PhysX with Ageia buy

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:26:52 +0000

Graphics firm Nvidia has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ageia Technologies, a privately held gaming physics technology developer based in California. Ageia is best known for its PhysX software, which is shipping or in... Read more...

Introducing Dell XPS M1730: First Notebook with AGEIA PhysX

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:40:11 +0000

Dell's XPS M1730, aimed at gamer's with over $3000 cash to spare, is the first notebook to feature an optional AGEIA PhysX Accelerator on top of 512 MB of dedicated video RAM thanks to two... Read more...

Ageia PhysX Coming to Mobile Apps – Chief Executive

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:18:59 +0000

During an interview with ChileHardware web-site, Chief executive Manju Hedge of Ageia Technologies, announced that his company plans to offer a physics processing unit (PPU) for mobile applications, target the PhysX chips at non-gaming apps... Read more...

Driver: Ageia PhysX 6.09.28 (WHQL)

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:19:00 +0000

Guys, I was confused between 6.09.28 vs 2.5.1 vs 2.6.0 (but after research, the new 6.09.28 replaces them all). Release Date 3-October-2006 New Driver Naming Convention The version number... Read more...

Retail Ageia PhysX card available

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:32:18 +0000

WE didn't expect any AGEIA cards before May, as Asus told us we'd have to wait for May to get them. But AGEIA's other exclusive partner BFG actually has PhysX cards in retail already. BFG... Read more...

Major Ageia PhysX Annoucements

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:11:53 +0000

Ageia, maker of the upcoming PhysX Physics Processing Unit, has announced numerous titles shipping with support for the add-in card to enhance environment physics in PC games. Included in the plethora of press releases... Read more...

Ageia announces PhysX processing unit

Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:14:28 +0000

New hardware dedicated to physics computations to bring new level of realism to games. Your games are about to get a lot more interactive. Fabless semiconductor company Ageia has today announced PhysX,... Read more...