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Should I remove NVIDIA PhysX?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
6% remove it94% keep it
Overall Sentiment
Excellent
What do people think about it?
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How common is it?
Global Rank #5,331
United States Rank #3,968
Reach 0.0923%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 12.79 days
377.29 days >
Average installed length: 198.24 days

Versions

VersionDistribution
8.10.29 100.00%

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NVIDIA PhysX v8.10.29

What is NVIDIA PhysX?

PhysX is a proprietary realtime physics engine middleware SDK. Video games supporting hardware acceleration by PhysX can be accelerated by either a PhysX PPU or a CUDA-enabled GeForce GPU offloading physics calculations from the CPU, allowing it to perform other tasks instead. This typically results in a smoother gaming experience and additional visual effects.

About  (from NVIDIA)

NVIDIA PhysX is a powerful physics engine enabling real-time physics in leading edge PC games. PhysX software is widely adopted by over 150 games and is used by more than 10,000 developers. PhysX is optimized for hardware acceleration by massively parallel processors. GeForce GPUs with PhysX provide an exponential incr...  Read more

Overview

The main program executable is ose00000.exe. The setup package is about 1.24 MB (1,295,535 bytes) when donwloaded.

Program detailsProgram details

URL: www.NVIDIA.com
Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Temp\
Uninstaller: MsiExec.exe /X{D56B0E27-4A3E-46C9-B5C1-D93D580C099C}
(The Windows Installer is used for the installation, maintenance, and removal.)
Estimated size: 1.24 MB
Language: English (United States)

Program filesFiles installed by NVIDIA PhysX v8.10.29

Program executable:ose00000.exe
Name:Office Source Engine
Signed by:Microsoft Corporation
Path:C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Temp\ose00000.exe
MD5:5a432a042dae460abe7199b758e8606c

How do I remove NVIDIA PhysX?

You can uninstall NVIDIA PhysX from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program NVIDIA PhysX v8.10.29, click it, and then do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
    • Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove NVIDIA PhysX.

OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 55%
Win 7 0%
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 6%
Keep it 94%
 
GLOBAL RANK
#5,331

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 59.11%
Windows 10 31.23%
Windows Vista 7.14%
Windows XP 2.47%
Windows Server 2003 0.05%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 39.05%
Windows 10 Home 11.03%
Windows 7 Ultimate 10.48%
Windows 8.1 8.05%
Windows 7 Professional 7.50%
Windows Vista Home Premiu... 5.30%

Distribution by countryGeography

62.02% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 62.02%
  United Kingdom 5.43%
  Germany 3.86%
  Canada 3.65%
  France 3.44%
  Australia 2.49%
  Italy 1.53%
  Brazil 1.20%
  Netherlands 1.00%
  Sweden 1.00%
  Belgium 0.95%
  Spain 0.95%
  Poland 0.79%
  Argentina 0.50%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard 33.19%
Dell 19.83%
Acer 14.06%
ASUS 9.69%
Toshiba 9.52%
GIGABYTE 6.55%
Lenovo 4.80%
Samsung 1.75%
Intel 0.61%
Common models
HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook ... 7.77%
HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook ... 6.25%
HP Pavilion g6 Notebook P... 5.87%
Dell Inspiron 560 4.73%
HP Pavilion g7 Notebook P... 3.60%
ASUS All Series 2.27%

About NVIDIA

Nvidia is known for its graphics processing units and dominates the high performance GPU market.
Publisher URL: www.nvidia.com

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