Since its inception in 2004, the PhysX API that Nvidia acquired as part of its Ageia purchase (and then adapted to use GeForce GPUs instead) and physics technology has been integrated into a ...

But in the years between, there was PhysX. PhysX started as a simulation engine from a Swedish firm, NovodeX, then was acquired by Ageia in 2004 and expanded to include hardware cards. Nvidia's ...

PhysX, which was created by Ageia in 2004 and later acquired by Nvidia, played a key role in physics-enhanced gaming, powering effects like ragdoll physics, cloth simulation, and volumetric fluids ...

And as you can see in the video just above, PhysX just doesn’t run terribly well without a GPU’s assistance, tanking performance when its effects are most vividly felt on screen. One Redditor ...

Nvidia has recently confirmed that its RTX 50 series graphics cards will no longer support 32-bit PhysX, a technology ... s product line after acquiring Ageia. This change comes as a consequence ...

Just last week, it was discovered that Nvidia's shiny new RTX 50 series cards had axed support entirely for 32-bit software, which hit old-school physics engine software PhysX. Now, in order to ...