Mafia 2 demo is out!

For Nvidia users, how to get proper antialiasing in the full game:

1) Download Nvidia's SLI profile tool (and ignore that name, the tool can manipulate all Nvidia application profiles, not just for SLI).
It can be found on this page.
Here's a direct link.

2) Run the tool and use the 'Export SLI Profiles' button to make a backup of your current profiles to a .txt file somewhere.

3) Edit a copy of the file you just exported and change the Mafia entry to look like:.

Code:

Profile "Mafia II"
    ShowOn GeForce
    ProfileType Application
    Executable "mafia2.exe"
    Executable "mafia2_sc.exe"
    Setting ID_0x00d55f7d = 0x000d02c4
    Setting ID_0x1033cec1 = 0x00000003
    Setting ID_0x1033dcd2 = 0x00000004
    Setting ID_0x1095def8 = 0x00400005
EndProfile

There's also a simple text file with that attached to this post.

4) Run the SLI profile tool and use the 'Import SLI Profiles' button to import the edited profile text file.

5) Now go to the Nvidia Control Panel and select Manage 3D settings, Program Settings tab, select 'Mafia II' and set it up the way you want it.

I recommend:
Antialiasing - Mode: Override any application setting
Antialiasing - Setting: 2x
Antialiasing - Transparency: 4x (supersample)

Game looks positively stunning with that

 

And what are the instructions to enable it on a Radeon card Florin?

 

As an addendum to the previous post, using the profile tool is necessary because the renaming trick that worked for the Mafia II demo doesn't work with the full version. Regardless of what executable name is used to start the game, Steam looks for and calls a mafia2.exe. So that Clive Barker's Jericho profile won't kick in.

The relevant part of the edited Mafia II profile is the:
Setting ID_0x00d55f7d = 0x000d02c4
which is lifted from the Jericho profile.

I've been using this with beta driver 259.32 but it should work fine with the latest WHQL, which is 258.96.

In general, I may be missing something, but is everyone really playing this game with the in-game AA setting (which to me looks as good as useless)? And, I'm not sure what the point of the existance of Nvidia's original Mafia II profile is.. AA forcing just plain doesn't work without the above application compatibility setting ID.

 

Wish I knew matey, wish I knew. But still.. AA or not, it's a very pretty game

 

Me too buddy, me too.

Total agreement, the 2xSSAA in-game helps and even without it I'd still consider the game gorgeous.

 

Stop it Nebby ! I am a die hard Mafia fan but my life says wait for 6 mnths before playing Mafia 2. Don't weaken me like that, mate !

In fact, MAFIA enjoys a cult following in India ! But I can presume 95% of the fans have played a pirated copy. Its a strange world we live in !

 

Hey ! I fished out my old copy of MAFIA ! I need MODS to conk up the Graphics !

Links please for the best mods out there !

 

And speaking of baffled, now imagine those snow flakes particles with 3D Vision glasses

 

better road textures
http://www.moddb.com/mods/footpath-road-mod

Bar Beautification Mod V2.0
http://mafiascene.com/downloads?did=476

some performance tips :
http://physxinfo.com/news/3628/mafia-ii-demo-tweaking-physx-performance/

The Mafia Trees Project
http://mafiascene.com/downloads?did=549

High Res Car Skins Pack 1
http://mafiascene.com/downloads?did=642

 

There is an unofficial free ride mod in the wild too now, but I haven't tried it yet.

 

That's enough, the community will have a field day with 'em and I expect this game to have some serious legs in thanks to the hard efforts of the mod community.

 

any word on a fix for the ATI 19** series cards (blinking shadows).???

 

Without better thread for this - is it possible that APEX isn't PhysX related after all, but their own cloth simulation system?

I did some benching of my own, and it seemed at first that it's clearly using multithreaded CPU solver, but once I deleted the cloths so only particle PhysX are run on High settings, the 4th core has clearly higher utilization than others.

Is it possible it has multithreaded clothing simulation, and singlethreaded particle PhysX?



edit:1
the notable drops are of course caused by alt+tabbing out of Mafia2, I think I snapped the no-cloth pic faster than others

 

Spoiler

Chapter 14 ...biggest wtf moment in the game yet !

 

Yeah, that was awesome.

 

Does someone tried the enb series mod for this game? (sharpening)

http://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/actionspiele/115385-mafia-2-enbseries-mod-1-1-a.html

I cann't get this to run, shift F12 does nothing. I tried copying the files in the root dir Mafia2 and Mafia2/pc but nothing works.