NVIDIA's New Driver Boosts Battlefield 6, CoD Black Ops 7 with DLSS 4; Expands Select PhysX Support
December 4, 2025
NVIDIA released the GeForce 591.44 WHQL Game Ready driver, adding DLSS 4 with Multi-Frame Generation for Battlefield 6: Winter Offensive and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and expanding 32-bit PhysX effects for select classic titles on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.
The driver includes general bug fixes such as resolving Adobe Premiere Pro export freezes with hardware encoding, improving Sophos Home stability, and addressing a green line issue when viewing videos in Chromium on RTX 50 Series GPUs.
A rotating list of supported titles remains, including Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Batman: Arkham City, Batman: Arkham Origins, Borderlands 2, Mafia II, Metro 2033, Metro: Last Light, and Mirror’s Edge, with Batman: Arkham Asylum slated for support in early 2026.
The piece notes PhysX’s decline in the late 2010s due to its CUDA dependency and competition from more flexible physics solutions, with some developers moving to custom frameworks.
Users can still play these games with PhysX disabled, but will lose immersive physics-based visuals and effects.
There is no announced timeline for future updates to additional 32-bit PhysX titles beyond the current list.
Community discussions suggest more than 40 games were affected by the loss of PhysX on RTX 50-series, making universal support unlikely.
The new PhysX support is experimental and selective; not all PhysX-accelerated games are supported yet, and Nvidia has not indicated plans for universal expansion.
NVIDIA emphasizes the support is not universal and will cover only a subset of titles for now, with broader compatibility unlikely.
Community data estimate around 40 titles were impacted by the deprecation, with the driver addressing roughly a quarter of the broken library, while some niche titles may remain nonfunctional unless whitelists expand.
GTX 900 and GTX 10 series GPUs are no longer supported by this driver and will not work with the 591.44 update.
DLSS 4 and Multi-Frame Generation aim to boost frame rates via AI-generated frames and upscaling, though latency benefits vary by resolution and settings.
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The Verge • Dec 4, 2025
Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series GPU driver restores PhysX support for popular games

