Guide: How to fix the AGEIA Physx error on startup.

[Roy]

So many people get an error that their AGEIA physx thing could not "init".
You could be wondering what the ♥♥♥♥ that is, but more importantly you should wonder how to fix it.

Took me ages to find a fix, but i finally found a really easy one.

This stuff might look cody and complicated but it's really as simple as it can get, don't worry

The problem:
You probably have a PhysX System Software 9.12.0613 installed, because that's what we deal with nowadays.
I tried removing it manually, removing keys because it constantly told me i already had a newer version installed etc, but here's the final solution:

There's a thing called "chocolatey".
You simply enter a line of code in your windows command prompt (cmd.exe) and it will augment it, after that you will only need to enter "choco install xxxxxx" lines from the website and it will automatically download and install certain things, so you don't have to deal with those pesky "you already have ♥♥♥♥ installed" messages that are not true.

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Step 1: Getting chocolatey
http://chocolatey.org/
Just go to that link and follow the guide.
Basically you open your cmd.exe and you copy and paste the following:

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin

Now let it do it's thing and it should tell you that it's installed properly.

Step 2: Using chocolatey to install the Physx legacy driver (the old one we need).
http://chocolatey.org/packages/Physx.Legacy

Simply close cmd.exe after installing and restart it to be sure it's working correctly, then just enter "choco install Physx.Legacy" without quotes.
It should install just fine, after that you can close cmd.exe and run frontlines.

Hope this works for you guys, the other methods i found didn't work for ♥♥♥♥ or were poorly described.

[Roy]

引用自 Shadow Knight：

Thanks a lot! But will this cause any problems with games which use newer PhysiX versions?

Like hardcore games said, pretty much no games break this fix.
I played all the games i used to play with it, but i had to reset my graphics card recently due to some hardware issues so right now i don't have it installed anymore.
It's pretty failproof though.

[Arche Bot]

引用自 Roy：

引用自 ATAR!fR3@k：

well, simply download and install from nvidia:
http://www.nvidia.de/object/physx-9.12.1031-legacy-driver-de.html
No need for this hole new install repository (which is nice by the way)

Please read the full post, that doesn't work which why this workaround was needed.

Actually this worked for me. Which is fortunate because chocolatey didn't work for me.

[ItsHash]

Thanks! worked for me after i made sure Command Prompt was in Admin, and added the line
"--force" until i saw it was installed successfully. 10/10 for AMD GPu users