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There are about 10 different modified executable for the game out there and some of these are very badly done. Upon further investigation, it was revealed that most of those had problems with the game were playing Mafia 2 copies leaked online with either beta or incomplete cracks. These include random crashes, black screen errors, authentication error messages, control issues and so on. I have seen folks reporting a lot of problems with the game on several gaming forums. Random crashes, black screen errors, authentication issues, controls getting inverted & more For a detailed account on how this works, refer to this article. Note: The performances fixes above were based on a similar solution devised for Mafia 2 Demo. This will disable all particle effects in game, including bullet damage, smoke and will lower the quality of explosions as well. Make a full backup for Effects folder before you start modifying its contents. Navigate to Edit/APEX/Effects directory.While this too will improve Mafia 2 performance, the loss of visual quality will be more noticeable than the clothes fix.

You can remove particle effects in a similar manner. Improve Mafia 2 performance by removing particle effects This will leave dynamic clothing on for the main character and revert to static clothing for NPCs.

Inside the CLOTH directory, delete all files except - those starting with VITO, and the two files m2skeleton and ClothRemapTable.

Make a full backup for CLOTH folder before you start modifying its contents.

Navigate to Edit/APEX/CLOTH directory.

Navigate to your Mafia 2 installation directory.

Step by step instructions on how to apply the clothes fix may be found below: You can safely disable dynamic clothing for NPCs and keep it on for the main character only – this should greatly improve frame rate. This is a very CPU and GPU intensive task and can take up quite a lot of resources. The game uses dynamic clothing (realistic clothing simulation) not only for the main character but for all NPCs as well. Thankfully, there is one simple fix you can try to get a massive framerate boost without losing too much visual quality. Some of you with even mid-high range video hardware might find slowness, stuttering and other framerate related issues while playing Mafia 2. Improve Mafia 2 performance with the APEX clothes fix For further optimizations, do everything mentioned in ‘The Essentials’ section in this article.

You can download the latest monthly runtime from here. You will also want to upgrade your current DirectX installation to the latest monthly build. You can download PhysX System Software separately from this location (Note that the latest Geforce driver release 258.96 includes an older version of PhysX – v does not come bundled with these drivers). So yeah, you’d want to download and install it prior to running Mafia 2. If you look closely at release notes for this build, it actually has one entry titled “Bug fixes for Mafia 2”. Currently, the latest stable version of PSS is v. If you have a PhysX supported graphics card, having the latest version of NVIDIA PhysX System Software installed is an absolute necessity. Mafia 2 is a heavily PhysX dependent game. We have also included some guidelines on how to improve Mafia 2 performance, in case you have run into slow frame rate issues.ĭownload and install the latest PhysX system software & DirectXįirst things first. Anyways this post is not yet another Mafia 2 review – objective of this article is to provide some useful troubleshooting tips so that you can get the best of this game without annoyances. While Mafia 2 is not a perfect game, it’s a clearly one of the best PC games to be released this year. If you thought the demo was good, just wait till you see the real thing. A demo was made available several weeks prior to the official release of the game so avid gamers could try it out before buying. PC version is due to be released on the 24th in North America, 26th in Australia and 27th in PAL region. Mafia 2, the game we have all been waiting for 10 long years, is finally here.