Mafia 2 demo!
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Got a [email protected], 4gb ram on windows 7 and an nVidia 470. Tried playing through the demo with settings maxed and physx on medium but it just started to really slow down half-way through the warehouse. I think it was the physX that did it, the graphics still seemed fine the game just seemed to be running at almost half speed and the controls were jerky.
Turned PhysX off for the benchmark, seemed to be quite a bit of slow-down when loading content but apart from that it worked fine, average fps was around 39 but when I tried to take a screenshot it took one of my desktop instead o.O
Definitely going to need a dedicated physX card if you want to use it in the game, I really didn't notice any difference between the gameplay with physX and the benchmark without. Content loading stutters are a bit worrying, could just be that the benchmark moving all around the city like that doesn't suit their streaming engine. My minimum framerate was 2.9 or something shocking because of that.
Turned PhysX off for the benchmark, seemed to be quite a bit of slow-down when loading content but apart from that it worked fine, average fps was around 39 but when I tried to take a screenshot it took one of my desktop instead o.O
Definitely going to need a dedicated physX card if you want to use it in the game, I really didn't notice any difference between the gameplay with physX and the benchmark without. Content loading stutters are a bit worrying, could just be that the benchmark moving all around the city like that doesn't suit their streaming engine. My minimum framerate was 2.9 or something shocking because of that.
I think they hijacked DX10 particle smoothing for that
EDIT: As for AA, I'm not positive but from the sound of that tech video they had this is a deferred engine which means any anti-aliasing is faked. It's just some form of edge detection then blurring the edge pixels.
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Everything on Max, AA on and AF x16, 60fps constant. No bothering with Physx though, never do.
GTX295 can still pull the punches.
GTX295 can still pull the punches.
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I haven't even started the mission yet, just robbing places and trying to survive the cops. Anyone finding the shooting (more surviving) rather hard? I seem to get shot to bits in no time, especially when you have the police and thugs(?) after you.
Disappearing bodies are somewhat of a nuisance. I had a policeman float from the back of the car to the door to pull me out when driving off.
A timer patch has already been released by inf1kek and works well. You can grab it here - Mafia 2 Demo Timer Patch by inf1kek. And intructions from inf1kek if your AV complains about the patch:
1) go to 000F5380, look for D9 56 4C, and change it to 90 90 90.
2) save file and play without timer.
Disappearing bodies are somewhat of a nuisance. I had a policeman float from the back of the car to the door to pull me out when driving off.
A timer patch has already been released by inf1kek and works well. You can grab it here - Mafia 2 Demo Timer Patch by inf1kek. And intructions from inf1kek if your AV complains about the patch:
1) go to 000F5380, look for D9 56 4C, and change it to 90 90 90.
2) save file and play without timer.
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Considering you didn't like the first game and don't find the mafia or the time period in which the game is set at all interesting, I think it's safe to say this game isn't aimed at you and there is no reason you'd play it over GTA4.
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Wow this game looks amazing...My PSU is on RMA so i can't use my 5850.
Do you feel my pain Looks like a mix of GTA and The Getaway...Looks like a defo purchase without even playing it.
Do you feel my pain
Looks like a mix of GTA and The Getaway...Looks like a defo purchase without even playing it.
I restarted the game and forced AA in CCC before hand. Got a grade D but it didn't seem all that bad, better than I hoped. Applying AA in game without worrying about the control panel didn't give any change in the image so it kind of seemed pointless to be concerned about at this early stage. Anyway, regardless of that applying AA in game / application controlled gave me a grade C and about 40% more frames.
Obviously with my rig I can't even attempt to use physx. Apparently not missing much there either atm.
Will play the demo later.
Obviously with my rig I can't even attempt to use physx. Apparently not missing much there either atm.
Will play the demo later.
Very nice game works fine on my 4850 GoldenSample Card 1920x1080 maxed out too..
only thing i don't like so far is the fact it looks too zoomed in when you walk around other that its a really nice demo...the game itself will be great.. one of the features i really like is the speed limiter (you can switch it on and off) really nice feature.
only thing i don't like so far is the fact it looks too zoomed in when you walk around other that its a really nice demo...the game itself will be great.. one of the features i really like is the speed limiter (you can switch it on and off) really nice feature.
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I haven't even started the mission yet, just robbing places and trying to survive the cops. Anyone finding the shooting (more surviving) rather hard? I seem to get shot to bits in no time, especially when you have the police and thugs(?) after you.
Disappearing bodies are somewhat of a nuisance. I had a policeman float from the back of the car to the door to pull me out when driving off.
A timer patch has already been released by inf1kek and works well. You can grab it here - Mafia 2 Demo Timer Patch by inf1kek. And intructions from inf1kek if your AV complains about the patch:
1) go to 000F5380, look for D9 56 4C, and change it to 90 90 90.
2) save file and play without timer.
AVG finds a 'Trojan Horse Dropper 2' in the file
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From the replies in the Console forum, looks to be better on the PC...
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Played for about two minutes....jizzed my pants.....deleted demo. Looks so, so good and seems to have kept the character of the original. I've never anticipated a game so much as this one and it looks like I'm not going to be disappointed! Will wait until release before playing again though as I don't want to ruin it.
AVG finds a 'Trojan Horse Dropper 2' in the file
False positive
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It is a patch so quite likely to flag some AVs. You can always revert to a HEX editor to do it manually.AVG finds a 'Trojan Horse Dropper 2' in the file
I have tested it myself and it works fine. Obviously I won't be the most trustworthy person, so you can always play it safe and wait for someone else to confirm it.