Mafia II

[Lum-X]

Everythign at high with AA+AO on and 16x AF no Physx and it runs great, never below 20FPS. if i turn off AO, shadow to Medium and Af to 8x it runs like 2 times better.

I would like to see more option to chose when tweaking graphics, and few other stuff in game but lets see the final version then we can ask more with patches.

I'm very happy with the game performance even thought i was experting better graphics (LOD is not that great), and less Physx impact on performance.

[rekoiln]

I recorded a short video of this game running on my Acer 4820TG.

YouTube - ‪Mafia II demo gameplay - TimelineX 4820TG‬‎

Runs great with current settings.

First impressions, instant buy Really love the feel of the game and first Mafia was great.

[LaptopNut]

Originally Posted by drama89

There's absolutely no need to be banned if you follow the rules. Stupid friend of mine banned while he was selling key from Steam he talked with them they opened his accouny only he can't use his community 1 year.

I'm pretty sure you've been banned before and you were too lazy to contact with them...

Users have been banned before due to technical issues or bugs, although they were offered free games as an apology and their accounts were unbanned. This still shows the inherent downfalls. I also once had no access to any of my Steam games because the Steam client decided to crash on startup. The fact is, you have very little control over any of your games and there are also those situations where people get their accounts stolen or hacked.

Mafia 2 is a lot cheaper (-£10) if you (pre order) buy the retail disk but I don't know whether that still requires steam.

[LaptopNut]

Originally Posted by ryokowashu

for those of you getting abysmal fps with physx enabled (i was getting 6 fps in benchmark)

what you need to do is erase your current physx drivers and install the one from the mafia ii 3rd folder. for me the path looks like this
G:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\mafia ii - public demo\3rd

once i installed those even though it was the same version number my frames jumped to a nice 30 fps with physx on high and i must say its amazing

Made no difference to me, even with Physx on medium, frames were around 15 - 20 fps after the install.

[drama89]

Originally Posted by rekoiln

I recorded a short video of this game running on my Acer 4820TG.

YouTube - ‪Mafia II demo gameplay - TimelineX 4820TG‬‎

Runs great with current settings.

First impressions, instant buy Really love the feel of the game and first Mafia was great.

nice have the same specs

edit: damn just saw the temps. Can you feel the heat at the palmrest area?

[Darkness62]

Check to see if PhysX is running CPU or GPU, that is apparently one of the problems, if it is on CPU (the auto install on the demo causes this, delete PhysX and reinstall from the 3rd directory in the Mafia ii demo folder). Another guy on the 2K forums found a way to get it working, but at a cost, seems 2K made all the NPCs clothing PhysX enabled. You can stop this by deleting files in the PhysX directory see his fix here:

Fix for bad APEX performance! 100% - 2K Forums

[Lum-X]

Mafia II Demo: tweaking PhysX performance | PhysXInfo.com - PhysX News

More info about Physx performance increase.

Lets see what patches and drivers will bring to us, as i see there is lots of work to be done if they what to.

Screw you Physx.

[LaptopNut]

The Fix for bad APEX performance worked, I now get up to 40 fps with Physx on medium and around 30 fps with it on High.

[crazysoccerman14]

Man I wish I had a really powerful gpu; I love games but hate the tinkering necessary to get the MOST out of my 9800m gts. Gaming can become expensive...

When I update, I'm going desktop- upgrading is easier and its price to performance ratio is better. My first gaming computer was a laptop because I could get support from people with the exact same hardware. I still love the laptop though and this game looks to be beautiful and fun.

[LaptopNut]

Originally Posted by crazysoccerman14

Man I wish I had a really powerful gpu; I love games but hate the tinkering necessary to get the MOST out of my 9800m gts. Gaming can become expensive...

When I update, I'm going desktop- upgrading is easier and its price to performance ratio is better. My first gaming computer was a laptop because I could get support from people with the exact same hardware. I still love the laptop though and this game looks to be beautiful and fun.

I could never go Desktop and the post here describes it well. If none of what has been mentioned in that post is important then I guess there is no loss. Having said that, Mafia 2 is still running on my laptop completely maxed out other than Physx but even a Desktop may struggle with that without an extra GPU and due to its poor implementation it is quite a fail.

I can't believe they have Physx being implemented on every single pedestrians clothing, that is just silly since you don't even notice it when it has been tweaked out.