Borderlands 2 - PhysX on AMD

You have never needed a nvidia card for physx. ANY game with physx you can have it offloaded to the cpu instead taking a identical performance hit as if I had a Nvidia card, less actually. See Physx on cpu sucked back on dual and single cores. Now adays with 4-12core cpus its not a issue. So dont buy into the Nvidia hype. You have never needed a nvidia card for physx, nor will you ever. Game devs just lock the option out for us AMD guys but a simple ini change fixes that. Enjoy!

C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Borderlands 2\WillowGame\Config\WillowEngine.ini


Search for:

PhysXLevel

Change

PhysXLevel=0 (low)

to either:

PhysXLevel=1 (mid)

or

PhysXLevel=2 (high)


For those wondering I have a 6850 with a i5 2500k

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[galacticninja7]

@Quicksh0tHD Do you reckon an AMD Athlon II X3 440 (3.0 GHZ, 3 cores) can handle PhysX? My GPU's an AMD HD 6750.

[Quicksh0tHD]

Id say no. Your going to have drops below 30 for sure.

[LuoneS]

Hi guy, I did this on my 7850 card, but the game freeze when is doing the first loading or while I'm playing, I'm using Win8, you know how can I fix this?

[Quicksh0tHD]

Dont use windows 8 ^_^ ATM windows 8 is horrid for gaming. So much so that valve is pushing for gaming on linux. Personally id love it if gaming moved to linux in the next 10years

[Khaled Al-Muraydhi]

i have an i5 2400 and a a hd 7970 is there going to be any frame drops for me ?

[Quicksh0tHD]

Gpu wise no, you have one of the best on the market. But even then a i5 will struggle with intense physx scenes. If you disabled physx id expect to almost never see you drop below 100fps

[bocajbee]

Why is there a whole nvidia vs AMD debate?

Can't we just get along and conclude consoles are shit?

[TheWarCatz]

Some effects don't work without an Nvidia card.

[SirkMerrill]

There's no point of doing this through the config as the command in-game changes exactly this.

[justalgood]

My physx level was already on 2 as well, however im still not getting any dismemberment... no heads be rolling...

[jacob coker]

Do you need to have borderlands on the pc for physx or can you use it on other platforms?

[Kenneth Santana]

So I did a bit of research myself and enabled physx on my 7850. Since my frame rate isn't great I was wondering if anyone has successfully offloaded physx from the cpu to the igpu that the intel processors have. Why? Because I read that ever high performance cpus aren't as fast as doing calculations as gpus are.

[koolkatkittyman]

You sir, are a genius!