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Mafia 3 PC performance thread

ISee said:
Man, this game can look really, really bad. Something is very wrong with weather effects and lighting.
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Those ground textures though...that obscenely low resolution, and they aren't even in scale with the environment. The character models look like they are from an entirely different game; the quality difference between the two elements in most of the screens I've seen here is jarring.
 
jacobeid said:
That's fair. I'd wager that most PC players are more concerned about hitting 60fps (or higher) with higher fidelity than they're looking for HDR support.



He's referring to Gears, not Mafia.
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Hdr done correctly would be a much bigger fidelity improvement than you could ever hope to see from the marginal improvement higher quality settings on multiplats offer
 
jacobeid said:
That's fair. I'd wager that most PC players are more concerned about hitting 60fps (or higher) with higher fidelity than they're looking for HDR support.\



He's referring to Gears, not Mafia.
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Ah, thanks. Thought he was saying Mafia had HDR support.

Any 4k impressions? SLI Support?
 
icecold1983 said:
Hdr done correctly would be a much bigger fidelity improvement than you could ever hope to see from the marginal improvement higher quality settings on multiplats offer
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I think the problem on PC is simply a numbers game right now; the number of people who could utilize HDR is likely much less than the number of people who could utilize higher framerates and settings.

Also I don't know if I agree with you regardless of that fact but it's really neither here nor there. I will always choose 60fps without HDR over 30fps with it.
 
jacobeid said:
That's fair. I'd wager that most PC players are more concerned about hitting 60fps (or higher) with higher fidelity than they're looking for HDR support.\
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Definitely, the wealth of video options in Gears is downright impressive and something I'd love to see in all AAA PC ports.

icecold1983 said:
Hdr done correctly would be a much bigger fidelity improvement than you could ever hope to see from the marginal improvement higher quality settings on multiplats offer
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Nope, and it certainly doesn't make up for 30fps over 60fps.
 
icecold1983 said:
Talking about fidelity, not framerates
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Sure but we're also talking about PC where most people will drop settings to maintain a higher framerate, especially for shooters. Just take a look at this thread or the Forza thread or the Hyper Light Drifter thread pre-60fps patch to see what I mean.
 
jacobeid said:
Sure but we're also talking about PC where most people will drop settings to maintain a higher framerate, especially for shooters. Just take a look at this thread or the Forza thread or the Hyper Light Drifter thread pre-60fps patch to see what I mean.
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Hdr doesnt affect perf tho. I suspect the tone of the last few posts would be much different if hdr was available in pc software. And of course this is assuming a proper implementation. Go to a best buy and check out an hdr display. The fidelity improvement blows 4k out of the water
 
icecold1983 said:
Hdr doesnt affect perf tho. I suspect the tone of the last few posts would be much different if hdr was available in pc software. And of course this is assuming a proper implementation. Go to a best buy and check out an hdr display. The fidelity improvement blows 4k out of the water
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As someone with a 65" 4k HDR TV I disagree. 60 fps >>> 4k > HDR. HDR in games, at least so far, is unimpressive to me.
 
Right. So a bad performing/made PC ported game. That's self evident. Far worse than I expected.
Only 30fps.
50% GPU@1440p, 100% GPU@ 4K even though 4K isn't double 1440p.
Blurry as hell. AA is can not be turned off. Not sure what type. SSAO? or just a low/medium/high FXAA? Whatever it is hardly makes a difference anyway.
Most settings are simplistic and borderline irrelevant. Visually not a lot of difference between low and high.
Crashes only when changing settings so far. Settings can be changed without restarting game. Which is good. But make little visual difference which is bad.

Thing is there's a good game here trying to get out but the performance/build is so bad it's nearly unplayable. The dialogue and voice acting is good. I haven't winced or giggled at anything yet. Gunplay is okay and cars feel nice and heavy.
But there are gameplay issues but I won't mention them here. This game needs a MAJOR patch. There is a lot to be fixed. And I do wonder if the developers did this by design why did they even bother with a PC version of the game?
 
some parts of the world can look good at times

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but you're instantly reminded that it can look like shit even in 4K

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and another issue with the game.

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did you guys use VPN to play? Still locked here.

Maintenance said:
The publisher though, that's the main part I bolded.
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i mean, Windows Store sucks, but i wouldn't call the pc ports afterthoughts. They have a lot of options and they seem to be actually trying. :P

politics aside, of course. The store is a piece of shit.
 
1440p maxed out with a 980ti and Vsync off and not getting any stutters or screen tears or drops. I really do wish you could adjust the HUD though. The map is especially tiny and it does look like the HUD doesn't scale properly with resolution. Game looks pretty good for the most part. Animations during cut scenes are fantsdtic. First hour of the game I was getting these weird lighting transitions, but it seems to have stopped now.

I did have a bug where the game crashed once in the first hour, nothing since then and there was a moment where Burkes location wouldn't pop up on my map even though it was supposed to. Did a checkpoint reload and it was fixed.

Played for about 5/6 hours today. Really enjoying it. I hope the 60 fps patch comes really soon though.
 
Kenzodielocke said:
Is the renderer broken? It really looks like a 720p game. Kinda like Dark Souls back when it was first time released on PC..
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Something weird is definitely going on. I'm playing at 1080p and it absolutely looks like 720p. Lowering the AA helps, but since you can't turn it off all-together you're pretty much stuck with a permanent blur. I'm convinced the AA (which I'm assuming is just FXAA?) is the main culprit, but I could be wrong. I'd love to be able to turn it off and just force 2x MSAA or something to clean up the image a little bit without killing performance too much.
 
i5-4690K/GTX 1070/16GB RAM

played for a bit and didn't have any stuttering or performance issues that I could tell (played up until it tells you to go to bed so it's just a small sample)...was at 1440p and the game can look really good at times but other times not so much...like a person above me said the lighting can do some weird things

fingers crossed the patch they're working on now (and future ones) work since presentation/story wise I really like it
 
I really hope Hanger13 addresses why it looks so blurry on PC.

Almost every screenshot i've seen people post looks rough.

What happened to it looking like this?

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joms5 said:
I really hope Hanger13 addresses why it looks so blurry on PC.

Almost every screenshot i've seen people post looks rough.

What happened to it looking like this?

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press shots are massively downsampled and sometimes use quality settings and lods not even existent in gameplay
 
First thing i noticed is the game doesn't support 144hz refresh rate (maybe not higher than 60hz). It takes a long time to alt tab, and that's a symptom of the game running a different refresh rate compared to the desktop. This is something they really need to fix when they release the FPS patch.
 
The Dear Leader said:
I had one right after a cut scene, no error of dialog box, just straight crash to the desktop.

Also the game went to 37FPS once during a cut scene AMA.
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i couldn't enter the game but i deactived desktop capture from nvidia shadowplay and it fixed it :')

i love pc gaming but man some of the stuff that causes bugs lol
 
Welp, PC performance is atrocious as expected.

Controls just feel really sluggish and the Kb/m combination doesn't help much. It's fucked up because these firefights are absolutely awesome, and the game is stunning. This port is just sad. I'm enjoying myself but I find myself constantly adjusting brightness, turning off whatever shit AA they've utilized and kicking it up to 1440p. It's a battle at every turn, but the game is really something wonderful.

This PC patch needs to happen stat.
 
dreamfall said:
NEW UPDATE

https://mafiagame.com/en/news/view/en-mafia-3-a-message-to-our-pc-players/?__prclt=VIsSzyC6
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Thx for the info.

EVO said:
What's more hideous is that FOV. How the fuck can you play it like that?
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By pressing buttons on my controller ;)

jorimt said:
Those ground textures though...that obscenely low resolution, and they aren't even in scale with the environment. The character models look like they are from an entirely different game; the quality difference between the two elements in most of the screens I've seen here is jarring.
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Plus the IQ. It's just not a good looking games, granted it has some 'ok' moments, but most of the time it's bad.
 
I would have been perfectly fine with a 30fps lock if it actually looked good, but there is no excuse now. From what I have seen, Grand Theft Auto V (which is often compared to this game), looks much better, and it came out a year and a half earlier. I'm on an RX 470, and I'll probably end up playing the game at a locked 30fps anyway because I prefer fidelity over framerate. Right now, I'm really disappointed at what I'm seeing. Isn't PC still a huge market for these people? Why do they treat it like this?
 
holygeesus said:
If game logic is tied to the frame rate, how do you produce a fix that quickly?
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Maybe they had the foresight to make all logic use a global delta time that they could adjust in one place. If that's the case, though, is bizarre that this was launched in such a condition.
 
Weird, had to change the resolution 'in game' as well as the launcher, was so blurry before that, also the fov setting is only 'in game', upped that too. But then crashed lol, no idea if related.
 
Launcher settings seems to not actually apply guys, so after you've launched the game go into display settings and set them all again.

The game looks ok I think and judging from the load numbers I get right now I think it's going to be hard to hit 60 in 2560x1600 on my GTX1080 without lowering some settings, so it's rather demanding actually.

The biggest obvious issue I have with graphics are the textures which range from great to utter shit in quality.
 
Changing any keys in the settings means that no keys work anymore unless you reset them back to defaults.

Good job, 2K/H13. The PC version of the game is basically unplayable at the moment.

And yeah, CA is gracing us with its holy unremovable presence again.
 
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