PhysX is a well-known real-time physics simulation engine used by many games, originally developed by Ageia the technology eventually got acquired by nVidia.

If you play an "PhysX" enabled game and if you dont have the required drivers installed you will encounter the following error :

"Failed to initialize the physics system. Please ensure you have an updated version of the PhysX System Software installed."

Despite the expectation that being an nVidia owned technology this must not support ATI graphic cards, the truth is there are drivers available for ATI graphic cards to enable PhsyX gameplay on a users computer.