NVIDIA has released its GeForce Game Ready Driver 591.44, which adds new DLSS 4 titles & also enables PhysX support on select titles for RTX 50 GPUs.
NVIDIA PhysX Support Is Back on GeForce RTX 50 GPUs With Latest Game Ready 591.44 Drivers
A major change with the new GeForce RTX 50 GPUs when they launched was that NVIDIA dropped 32-bit support for CUDA. This meant that PhysX acceleration was no longer available on RTX 50 GPUs. This was disappointing news for gamers who wanted to play older titles (with PhysX) on their brand-new GPUs. It looks like NVIDIA has listened to these gamers, and almost a year after launch, the RTX 50 series will now receive full PhysX acceleration in select "top-played" PhysX titles. These titles include:
- 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
GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs launched at the beginning of the year, alongside the phasing out of 32-bit support for CUDA. This meant that PhysX effects in a number of older, yet beloved games were not GPU-accelerated on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.
With the launch of our new driver today, we are adding custom support for GeForce gamers’ top-played PhysX-accelerated games, enabling full performance on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, in line with our existing PhysX support on prior generation GPUs.
via NVIDIA
The following are the main highlights:
Game Ready for Battlefield 6: Winter Offensive
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including Battlefield 6: Winter Offensive and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. In addition, support for 32-bit GPU-accelerated PhysX effects has been added for select classic titles on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.
Fixed Gaming Bugs
- Battlefield 6: Gaming stability issues [5582125]
- Counter-Strike 2: Text may appear slightly distorted when in-game resolution is lower than the native resolution of the display [5278913]
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: Light flickering after driver update on some system configurations [5432356]
- Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name: Corruption after driver update on some system configurations [5432356]
- Black Myth: Wukong: Lower performance in driver branches newer than R570 [5562283]
- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne: Some particle effects may be missing on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs [5546598]
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3: Gameplay becomes dim over time [5488108]
- Madden 26: Stability issues [5535693]
- Users running R580 branch drivers (58x.xx) or newer may observe lower performance in some games after updating to Windows 11 October 2025 KB5066835 [5561605]
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Random corruption on main character's sword corruption [5363151]
Fixed General Bugs
- Adobe Premiere Pro: Freeze During Export Using Hardware Encoding [5431822]
- Sophos Home Antivirus: System stability issues [5581371]
- Green line observed while viewing videos in Chromium browser on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs [5535388]
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