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**Mafia 2 Benchmark thread**

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Well the Mafia 2 demo is now out on Steam. Everyone please post your results of the benchmark - i'm waiting to order either a GTX460 or GTX470 for this game and i'm desperate to know how it runs!

I think 1920x1080 4xAA 16xAF results would be nice, as that seems to be a 'sweet spot' setting for a lot of people, but of course feel free to bench at any resolution/settings you want :)

**PLEASE NOTE, YOU WILL HAVE TO RESTART THE GAME AFTER CHANGING SETTINGS FOR THEM TO TAKE EFFECT**

**PHYSX**

If you are having problems with PhysX please try this suggestion from 'kitch9'

Uninstall Physx from Control Panel.

Go to Mafia 2 folder in Steamapps folder and manually install the Physx SS in there.

Go to Nvidia control panel and set Physx mode to CPU only, hit apply, set Physx mode to auto and hit apply.

Voila'
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Mr Krugga said:
If there is an in-game benchmark, I will happily run it for you at 1680x1050, max, 4xAA/16xAF.

BTW, I was the first to inform! :mad:
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The benchmark is in the options.

Not sure what you mean about the first to inform, do you want this thread deleted so you can start one or something?

First post i read about the demo here was by SkeeterUK an hour ago, so he has you beat by 45 minutes mate :)
 
I wasn't the first then! :mad::p

2.5 PhysX/APEX Enhancements System requirements Operating System:

  • Microsoft Windows XP (SP2 or later) / Windows Vista / Windows 7
  • Minimum Processor: 2.4 GHz Quad Core processor Recommended Processor: 2.66 GHz Core i7-920
  • RAM: 2 GB

  • Video Cards and resolution

    APEX medium settings:
  • Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 (or better) for Graphics and a dedicated NVIDIA 9800GTX (or better) for PhysX
  • Recommended: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 (or better)

    APEX High settings:
  • Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 (or better) and a dedicated NVIDIA 9800GTX (or better) for PhysX
  • Recommended: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 for Graphics and a dedicated NVIDIA GTX 285 (or better) for PhysX NVIDIA

  • GPU driver: 197.13 or later.
  • NVIDIA PhysX driver: 10.04.02_9.10.0522.
  • Included and automatically installed with the game.
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Quite high PhysX requirements I would have thought.
 
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I'm the first to post benchmark results, ha!

mafia2bench.png


As I was expecting, it's over 9000!

EDIT: beaten again by Skeeter, I hate that guy!

PS resize the ****ing image, please :)
 
Mr Krugga said:
EDIT: beaten again by Skeeter, I hate that guy!
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Haha :) Nice results there mate, it doesn't seem to be as much of a system hog as i had feared.

Here is my mighty 8600GT! CPU is back at stock because i was messing with the bios last night, not that it'll be bottlenecking the card anyway lol

mafia2.jpg

mafia2a.jpg


I have to say i'm hugely suprised the game runs AT ALL on such a crappy card with only 256MB memory. I'm certain that there must be a bug in there somewhere and the game is not actually using all the options i have selected. It looks good though, and would probably be somewhat playable at lower resolution!

If there is no bug going on then this has to be one of the best optimised engines i have ever seen in my life.
 
The game doesn't run Benchmark with AA on? On the screenshot in my previous post it turned AA back to off. It only let's you choose between On and Off and I had chosen the first before running the Benchmark. Strange.

Another run:

mafia2bench2.png
 
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Damn... stuck at work... :mad: Might have to pop home at lunch time and start the download....
Is everyone benching with the same settings ?
And can we get some screenshots into the Hi-Res thread please.... ;)
 
The game lets me choose PhysX (set on medium now for benching). Meaning that benching works well :) Particles effects are quite all right, haven't noticed anything else (besides the performance drop, it obviously runs on the mildly clocked CPU). Wouldn't bother to run it with PhysX card (9600GSO lies around somewhere).

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