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Mafia 3 PC performance thread
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ISee
Member
4GB of Ram could be the problem here and explain why you experience sudden 1 fps like stutters (Game uses around 6.7gb for me). Also if graphical setting do not influence your performance than you're most probably CPU bound. My 6700k (for example) gets hammered like crazy, CPU load is sometimes over 85% per thread while playing this game, but to make things worse it is also incredibly GPU demanding. Performance wise this game is a very special gem.
Short clip of my performance, if you want to take a look at CPU load.
My experience so far hasn't really been bad.
I'm running a 4690k and a 970. I have everything maxed except AA, FPS at the 30 lock, and ReShade on.
FPS has been very consistent at 30 and the only actual issues I've had were;
A) There have been two or three cutscenes where the video would stop and cut forward while the audio kept going as normal
B) Occasionally there will be a weird distorted square that I'm guessing is a texture that didn't load right. If I spin the camera or put something between me and where that texture is it usually fixes itself.
I'm running a 4690k and a 970. I have everything maxed except AA, FPS at the 30 lock, and ReShade on.
FPS has been very consistent at 30 and the only actual issues I've had were;
A) There have been two or three cutscenes where the video would stop and cut forward while the audio kept going as normal
B) Occasionally there will be a weird distorted square that I'm guessing is a texture that didn't load right. If I spin the camera or put something between me and where that texture is it usually fixes itself.
ISee
Member
30 fps, yeah sure. 60? you'll have a lot of drops to 50-45fps. I'm barely able to hold 60 (some drops to 57) on my 6700+1070 at 1080p.
The introduction has some very rough spots and weird weather, lighting bugs (?). But after that the game actually can look okay with some highlights here and there (as always). Performance wise, yeah it's extremely demanding.
twozerotwo
Member
Hmm. I immediately set everything to low and turned it up to 60fps before the game even launched and it went smoothly for the 8 or so hours I played it.
I want to turn up the settings but it's already maxing out my CPU just running it the way it is. Such a horrible optimized game. Disappointing because I'm really enjoying it.
i5 4460 @ 3.2
8gigs
R9 280
It actually looks pretty good and real smooth with everything turn down as much as it could go hahahaha but then again I've never really cared about games "looking pretty" as long as they're fun.
I want to turn up the settings but it's already maxing out my CPU just running it the way it is. Such a horrible optimized game. Disappointing because I'm really enjoying it.
i5 4460 @ 3.2
8gigs
R9 280
It actually looks pretty good and real smooth with everything turn down as much as it could go hahahaha but then again I've never really cared about games "looking pretty" as long as they're fun.
Still weird that I had no problem with other games.
Well I gotta upgrade my RAM to 8 anyway so we'll see how it runs after that...thanks
From this page: https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/6205/
I did that and there was performance gain and I could not see any visual difference.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
yep, same here
Rellik
Member
This isn't other games. This pretty much has to be brute forced because they did a terrible job.
This is my favorite thing from this game so far:
The mirrors in the game are absolutely hilarious. They're so idiotic I actually really enjoy them.
I just don't understand why you'd implement them like this. It's so unnecessary. Just a static shot of the room would be better.
The Janitor
Member
No mirrors at all would be better frankly. It's probably because the game was rushed.
Chris_Rivera
Member
This is my favorite thing from this game so far:
Priceless
You know what, as dumb as it sounds, I think I'd really like a retrospective of (good and bad) game mirrors and the various methods devs have used for them. Would make a decent DF Retro if Dark1x doesn't have a game locked in one week.
The release notes for the recent patch said that work will continue, but there's no concrete info on what the next patch will address or when it'll be live.
icecold1983
Member
Same thing here with the same processor. This doesn't happen when I lock it to 30 but the fans start going INSANE after I switch it to 60. I had temps around 70degrees C and around 90% CPU usage.
icecold1983
Member
Bl@de
Member
Game looks like an ugly blurry mess (on all plattforms, Xbox One being the worst, looking like 720p) and has terrible performance on top of constant crashes and bugs on PC. This is just bad.
sertopico
Member
Despite all the negative feedbacks I bought the game... It doesn't run bad at all, I thought it was going to run much worse. Playing maxed out at 2k with unlimited frame rate (but I have gsync enabled so there is no tearing), god if it pushes the system to the limit, never heard my CPU fan making so much noise. There are some slowdowns when there is a lot of vegetation but the gsync saves the situation.
My rig: 6700k@4.5, 16GB RAM, 980Ti at 1.5GHz (using the previous WHQL drivers, not the latest). I installed the game on a SSD, so it loads pretty fast and I did not notice any pop in or weird stuff going on. The only bug is that related to the lighting and the weather, sometimes it changes so fast with shadows going back and forth with no reason. Must be the southern weather I guess.
My rig: 6700k@4.5, 16GB RAM, 980Ti at 1.5GHz (using the previous WHQL drivers, not the latest). I installed the game on a SSD, so it loads pretty fast and I did not notice any pop in or weird stuff going on. The only bug is that related to the lighting and the weather, sometimes it changes so fast with shadows going back and forth with no reason. Must be the southern weather I guess.
RamaTheVoice
Member
Seriously, no pop-in? Even cars when you're driving?
Not sure if this was mentioned but for anyone having issues of constantly crashing to desktop I uninstalled the VC distributables I had installed that Mafia 3 uses (2015 I think it was) and then rebooted and installed the ones in the _CommonRedist folder in the Mafia 3 files. Didn't have a single crash last night in around 4 - 5 hours of play.
Can't take credit for that as I read it somewhere else, but don't have the link to give the credit to.
Can't take credit for that as I read it somewhere else, but don't have the link to give the credit to.
sertopico
Member
Of course there is some due to the LOD system but I never saw stuff appearing all of a sudden right in front of me.
J3nga
Member
Sucks that the reshades crash my games so much. I've even had to restart my pc a couple of times because it was completely stuck.
Which one? With 5.1 I haven't had any crashes ever since.
The Janitor
Member
Rellik
Member
The first time I booted this game on launch night I couldn't see myself in the mirror. It was a static shot of the room. No matter how long I waited, I never appeared lol
Playing on an SSD as well, there's still pop-in. Have had some really bad moments with cars, although thankfully geometry is OK (minus the lights on buildings drawing in and turning on within the edges of the screen).
There is definitely popin of cars on the street if road stretches ahead of you, akin to the one in Watch_dogs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StRMXMovudI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StRMXMovudI
ISee
Member
Yeah the squares pop up once in a while for me.
Are you overclocking your GPU?
I reinstalled Watch_Dogs a while ago and I have to say: It didn't age well. It looks kind of outdated, imo.
Braag
Member
No, I'm running a GTX 1070 at stock speeds. I'm using the lastest drivers for Mafia 3.
Yeah the lighting is really wonky. It gets all weird looking sometimes.
Had this happen to me today. It looks like there's a huge explosion going on but it's just the lighting going crazy.
Yeah, the 5.1 crashes my game too.
RamaTheVoice
Member
Still runs like shit though.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
You can use nvidia shadowplay, fraps or steam overlay.
Yep happened to me the other day.
ISee
Member
Is it crashing to desktop, rebooting your PC or giving you a blue screen of death?
Are you using reshade?
How are your temperatures (CPU/GPU) while playing Mafia 3?
That too.
Braag
Member
Karak
Member
Ya had those and well and my stuff might as well be supercooled lol. its not that.
ISee
Member
Could be LumaSharpen...
Somebody mentioned that it could be causing game crashes a couple of pages ago. Uninstall it (dlls etc. in the mafia 3 folder) and try if it still crashes at 60 fps.