Mafia 2 demo!

Locke · 10 Aug 2010 at 17:14

More images here Enjoy

Neil79 · 10 Aug 2010 at 17:17

Draeger said:
How do you use this time demo patch thingy?. I take it you have to drop it into a certain dir within Steam and patch from there?. Where do I put it?. Ta.

1) apply patch to (\Steam\steamapps\common\mafia ii - public demo\pc\Mafia2.exe)
2) enjoy.

Draeger · 10 Aug 2010 at 17:21

Neil79 said:
1) apply patch to (\Steam\steamapps\common\mafia ii - public demo\pc\Mafia2.exe)
2) enjoy.

Excellent, thanks m8. :cool:

Oh, and for folk having bother downloading the Timer patch here is another link to a Rapidshare uploaded one :-

[RS] Timer Patch

MOOGLEYS · 10 Aug 2010 at 17:29

Has the demo been taken off steam..? I dont have a download link.

shep_no_platinum · 10 Aug 2010 at 17:34

Been playing this and it is excellent! Can't wait for the full game.

MOOGLEYS · 10 Aug 2010 at 17:35

It appears to be there now...???

Neil79 · 10 Aug 2010 at 17:35

MOOGLEYS said:
Has the demo been taken off steam..? I dont have a download link.

steam://install/50280

coltpython3 · 10 Aug 2010 at 17:39

does anyone know whether you can buy houses in this game?

Draeger · 10 Aug 2010 at 17:45

Just played this for a bit. Timer patch works perfectly. Loving it so far. I game at the modest resolution of 1440x900 because of my monitor so I've got everything maxed out visual wise and its storming along at a very good frame rate. I'll definitely be buying this. Someone mentioned earlier that they seem to have managed to retain the "feel" from Mafia, I think that is a fair observation. Brilliant, thumbs up from me and can't wait till the full game is out.

maxilive · 10 Aug 2010 at 17:47

Demo runs great and the game looks fantastic. Here are some random Eyefinity shots

(full size links coming soon)

Full Size!!! - http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4599/eyefinitymafia201.jpg

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Drizmod · 10 Aug 2010 at 17:50

great demo! runs great on my system too! Like the pseudo AA effect as well

nice screens!!

waynio · 10 Aug 2010 at 17:51

Was going to dodge the demo, but really just can't resist

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Not going to play along with whatever story is to be had & instead just see if my pc can handle it ok

, make or break time for if I upgrade my system

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Holy sheet maxilive those screens look jaw dropping omg

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maxilive · 10 Aug 2010 at 18:06

It plays* as good as it looks

Full size now added (sorry I had to compress them a little bit so they weren't MBs each, still pretty big though)

*As long as AA is off

carnagejc · 10 Aug 2010 at 18:15

Now even more desperate for my new system from OC to arrive. Has anyone tried the demo with 3d vision?

DennisK4 · 10 Aug 2010 at 18:16

Its a great looking game for sure and the PhysX adds a lot for once.

Swi1ch · 10 Aug 2010 at 18:22

Seems like it's going to be good, but a little part of me is gutted that magazine reloading has been changed for the more standard bullet reload and you can now conceal 2 long barreled weapons.

arc@css · 10 Aug 2010 at 18:30

Just played the demo and enjoyed it!

Although impressed by the game generally, (must look amazing for physx users - when that gets sorted anyway), I probably won't pay release price for it, will wait for it to drop down just a little. Not a certainty though, might sucumb to it since it did impress me more than I had expected.

The graphics looked pretty darn good, nice contrasts throughout. The fire effects looked excellent, possibly the best I have seen in a game to date. Some nice sense of realism with the graphics used. Well implemented.

Ran the game with no AA and obviously no physx, ran perfectly. If they can sort out the AA or physx issues before release then great, otherwise still a potentially good solid game.

Not sure if I can be arsed to play the first through before the second arrives on my door mat.

smit101 · 10 Aug 2010 at 18:35

I'm finding physx virtually halves the demo framerate on my GTX280,AA seems to produce a big drop too.

Demo looks excellent and plays well enough with AA enabled though,will update drivers as I'm still on 196.21's.

Have another system with a 5850 but haven't installed the demo on it as yet,I'm assuming all the physx stuff on ATI will be disabled,shame that,as it seems it adds quite a lot,albeit with a high performance cost.

carnagejc · 10 Aug 2010 at 18:48

Thought you guys might like to know after a little browsing i've found multiple threads discussing the physx issue and it seems to be that the demo installs a new physx driver which is forcing physx onto the CPU. Even though in settings it may be displayed as using the GPU it is in fact forcing it on the CPU apparently. I can't comment yet but you guys might want to check it out yourself

coldfused · 10 Aug 2010 at 18:58

Downloaded from steam in 30 seconds

Now to play...