This fails on my rig my graphics card is seriously letting it down, 8800GTS and I get 20fps at 1680 no matter what I do with the other settings
Strange runs fine on my 8800 gts 640
I game at 1600 x 1200
Mafia 2 demo!
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Strange runs fine on my 8800 gts 640
I game at 1600 x 1200
This I am glad about as it was 1 of GTA's most disapointing bits because of mass cheaters wrecking the game.
Once you change it to on, close the demo & start it back up, had the same issue
, definately looks better with it on.Because rockstar are sloppy when it comes to catering for pc gamers, first I've heared of the simulation mode, off I go to have a try
.If you take note most of the good games don't have multiplayer, and by good I mean good gameplay, good story, graphics at least of its time and takes a long time to complete
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How long do you think the single player will last? I'm hoping for 20 hours+.
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Once you change it to on, close the demo & start it back up, had the same issue
Cheers! I manage to figure it out.
Because rockstar are sloppy when it comes to catering for pc gamers, first I've heared of the simulation mode, off I go to have a try
The PC version of GTA4 runs better than the console version on a machine of similar spec. (i.e. quad-core with half-decent graphics card)
Does anyone have any thoughts on what might be causing the demo to crash for me? After about 6 or 7 minutes of play it crashes to desktop with a windows error message of some sort. I cant read the message however because my PC shuts itself off before i can read it.
I thought it might be my CPU overheating as i haven't played resource intensive game in quite some time but i ran Prime95 for about hour today and it seemed ok.
Any thoughts on how i can troubleshoot this?
I thought it might be my CPU overheating as i haven't played resource intensive game in quite some time but i ran Prime95 for about hour today and it seemed ok.
Any thoughts on how i can troubleshoot this?
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I saw someone mention their gfx card overheats a lot when physx is turned on but since ur ati i duno.
Prime95 for a hour isnt a stable indicator hell even 24hrs isnt as mine crashes if i used that folding at home thing otherwise its stable as hell. So its not a perfect test.
Try lowering quality and see if its playable?
Prime95 for a hour isnt a stable indicator hell even 24hrs isnt as mine crashes if i used that folding at home thing otherwise its stable as hell. So its not a perfect test.
Try lowering quality and see if its playable?
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What are the rest of your settings? Seems AA is killing this, most people are turning it off for decent FPS, I dont think I turned it off, going to try it later
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Hmm just had the weirdest thing happen.
Was going to do some benchmarks with the demo using various settings going from high-low so i set everything to high but i quit out before going any further to install fraps for screenshots and somehow my monitor suddenly went really dark like i'd had changed the brightness down on it. A quick shutdown and restart fixed the problem but never had it happen before.
I must say i liked the demo, played quite nice from running arround to shooting although i found the normal driving mode to be a bit weird as it was like i couldn't steer the car quickly enough although maybe that's just me and i didn't try simulation. Also i liked the graphics and on my system with a newer for me graphics card (Asus 3870 512mb pre-overclocked) and at 1280x1024 it ran smooth.
Was going to do some benchmarks with the demo using various settings going from high-low so i set everything to high but i quit out before going any further to install fraps for screenshots and somehow my monitor suddenly went really dark like i'd had changed the brightness down on it. A quick shutdown and restart fixed the problem but never had it happen before.
I must say i liked the demo, played quite nice from running arround to shooting although i found the normal driving mode to be a bit weird as it was like i couldn't steer the car quickly enough although maybe that's just me and i didn't try simulation. Also i liked the graphics and on my system with a newer for me graphics card (Asus 3870 512mb pre-overclocked) and at 1280x1024 it ran smooth.
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Yes. It doesn't label the buttons properly though, you have to go by colour.
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Damm after restarting my computer and then loading the demo to benchmark it on my system i find my screen Again had went dark/dim although it's only on my main monitor and not my 2nd monitor plus i found that when i alt-tabbed the monitor would look fine when the Demo was selected but then when i switched to the desktop it wasn't right.
**Edit** logged off and as soon as i got to the screen saying "Logging off" my monitor was nice and bright exactly how it should be and when i logged back on everything was fine. Very odd that i've never had this happen before in any game other than this demo.
**Edit** logged off and as soon as i got to the screen saying "Logging off" my monitor was nice and bright exactly how it should be and when i logged back on everything was fine. Very odd that i've never had this happen before in any game other than this demo.
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It does however changes the labels on the fly, so it is possible to play mouse for shooting and x360pad for driving, and it is AWESOME.
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Just started up steam today and it downloaded a 25mb update for mafia 2 demo but I can't see anything in the news section about it. 