RetroGamer4Ever wrote on 2022-01-13, 13:05:
The PhysX performance of the 960 is superior to the Ageia card and the most recent 960 drivers likely negate any PPU requirement for the older PhysX games that were built around the PPU card.
It should let you install the PPU as the nVidia drivers should recognise it and let you choose which PPU/GPU to do the Physx on. Its listed under the Configure Surround, Physx tab in the nVidia control panel. I have not tried this myself as there isn't any point in using the Ageia PPU with modern nVidia GPUs and I have only ever used it with retro ATI/pre Physx nVidia GPUs. If you use it with Pre Physx nVidia hardware then its as simple as using the Ageia drivers for it. (The funny thing is that nVidia simply added the Ageia Physx core to their GPUs early on which is why the drivers are still an independent part of the driver package, later GPUs do Physx via Shader programs and CUDA cores and can ignore the Physx drivers altogether)
I dont think nVidia has done anything with Physx for years now, pretty sure its now just there as legacy for the few games that use it directly without shader programs. (I'm looking at you Borderlands 2)
The Ageia Physx PPU is a fun little card but not terribly useful, the games that could use Physx tend to require hardware that is more modern than retro gaming tends to use. I have used it with a Core 2 Quad and HD4890 X-Fire setup and a 7900 GTX SLI setup and it work quite well but that hardware isn't exactly Retro.
I will say Its fun for playing with the demos and experiments that are on the net for it, especially the fluid/explosion demos.
Edit - Just looking and it seems that version 2.8.3 of the Physx SDK dropped all support for PPUs, which means you will have to find a set of nVidia drivers that still support the PPU or use the old Ageia drivers. (version 8.09.04 of the nVidia Physx software was the last one to support Ageia PPUs)
See link above from Vetz