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**Mafia 2 Benchmark thread**

I just ran the demo and god this game looks bad!

Seriously, they take this amount of horsepower and produce something that is visually far worse than left for dead 1??

It's smelling of vantage, lots of technically advanced effects but somewhere along the line someone forget to make the graphics actually look good!
 
straxusii said:
I just ran the demo and god this game looks bad!

Seriously, they take this amount of horsepower and produce something that is visually far worse than left for dead 1??

It's smelling of vantage, lots of technically advanced effects but somewhere along the line someone forget to make the graphics actually look good!
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I honestly think you couldn't be anymore wrong.
 
straxusii said:
I just ran the demo and god this game looks bad!

Seriously, they take this amount of horsepower and produce something that is visually far worse than left for dead 1??

It's smelling of vantage, lots of technically advanced effects but somewhere along the line someone forget to make the graphics actually look good!
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Personally i think the game looks really nice. It's not Crysis but it works for me, the artwork is very good. Not to mention that the engine is incredibly well optimised!

More importantly, it has brought back that old Mafia feeling :) Can't wait for a new GPU and the full game now.
 
kitch9 said:
I honestly think you couldn't be anymore wrong.
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What seriously you think mafia 2 demo has jaw dropping visuals? Guess we're running a different demo :D

Looks a lot worse than BFBC2, LFD1 and probably a whole host more

Not commenting on the gameplay itself, Im sure it will be good but for the power this takes the return on visuals is poor
 
kitch9 said:
K, I've got Physx working on the GPU, here's what I did, I'm not sure what got it work out of these steps, but it did.

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'

35fps on 2x overclocked 460's maxxed at 1080p instead of 10 in the refinery.........

Fluidmark now works again, and so does Batman.
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Hey thanks a lot mate, i will add this info to the first post.
 
kitch9 said:
K, I've got Physx working on the GPU, here's what I did, I'm not sure what got it work out of these steps, but it did.

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'

35fps on 2x overclocked 460's maxxed at 1080p instead of 10 in the refinery.........

Fluidmark now works again, and so does Batman.
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yeah thanks for that, great tip. went from 22 to 31fps with 3D and physx switched on
 
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I do not think this is running right for me. Set everything om max, including Apex physx ( cloths look great :D), also AA on. The Benchmark looks great, but the actually demo... meh.... does not look like 1920x1080 in places. Noticably the far power lines and buildings.
When i reduce the resolution to check... the car changes, but the far thinsg don't. any ideas ?
 
Delbert said:
I do not think this is running right for me. Set everything om max, including Apex physx ( cloths look great :D), also AA on. The Benchmark looks great, but the actually demo... meh.... does not look like 1920x1080 in places. Noticably the far power lines and buildings.
When i reduce the resolution to check... the car changes, but the far thinsg don't. any ideas ?
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Have you tried forcing different AA options through control panel? This is a brand new engine so it might take some fiddling. If it's uses deferred lighting that can cause issues with AA.

Actually thinking about it, it might be caused by some kind of distance blur effect. I'm thinking we might not have access to all the options in this demo, but i guess we'll have to wait and see.
 
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Max Settings, AA on.
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AA off.
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It looks like DOF effects.... do not like it. hope it can be turned off in main release.
Other than that, runs pretty well considering. Just had my first punch up... great... :D
BTW... the Hex edit works a treat in stopping the countdown....:D
 
bigjimmyauk said:
anyone having problems with this everytime i exit the game and go back to desktop my brightness goes right down even tho my screen is right up wtf is going on can't seem to correct it without a rerstartr
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Happens to me too.

I use ctrl+alt+del (in Win7 it switches to what looks like the login screen and has various options including Task Manager) which switches back to normal brightness.
 
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