Mafia II

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

Yes, the UK is only getting the special edition on PC which is basically two addon packs, Greaser and erm, can't remember the other one now, as well as a printed map of the city. I ordered mine from Game, but other places may stock it too.

[Sethos]

its not VIC , its VITO... files

and here is the link to Tweaks - http://physxinfo.com/news/3628/mafia-ii-demo-tweaking-physx-performance/

Haha, that is awesome! I just deleted all the cloth files except for Vito - Left everything else in place and now playing with High PhysX / APEX on my ATi rig with no noticeable performance hit whatsoever, hilarious!

Just goes to show all this PhysX Nvidia hype-crap is a joke - It's easily offloaded to the CPU with a tiny, tiny tweak and the hardware part that is supposed to do it oh so well is struggling.

[Pupik]

Gotta love games where the developers take care of "other" details, that not many might use. Alternative way to unlock the car's doors:

Also with a little modding, night time and rainy weather were unlocked int he demo:

- Night

- Rain

And both looks ****ing amazing. Especially all the lighting at night :woot:

[lalalawawawa]

Save yourself the trouble of paying 50 euros through Steam if you live in Europe.

http://www.sendit.com/games/inspiration/mafia-ii.list

[Sethos]

I'm still curious, the game is fully steamworks supported - Does that mean it becomes another game where we can associate the CD-key with our Steam account? Usually when games

get the full work-over with steamworks they become Steam native.

[ViperAFK]

yea I got really bored :shifty:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKb8KkzmRRA

[Pupik]

yea I got really bored :shifty:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=wKb8KkzmRRA

Too bad it's you that just painted the rims red. I thought it's another detail, that showed the rims getting hot when you drive without tires.

[Sethos]

Couldn't help myself, had to pre-order the PC Collector's Edition.

I'm so stoked for this game!

[Corris Veteran]

"Hey guys,

When designing Mafia II, we optimized for each of the three different systems the game would run on to make sure the core experience was the best it could be. Because of this, there are some differences from one platform to the next. In terms of the PS3 version, I wanted to clarify a couple points you have been asking about: There will not be highly detailed grass or large pools of blood, the cloth movement is less noticeable than, for example, the PC version, and the visual fidelity in the demo is generally representative of what you'll see in the full game. "

As to the DLC screens that had grass

To questions about the DLC screens, they were taken from an earlier build of the game before we optimized for the gameplay experience. We had to make some alterations to the PS3 environment that resulted in the removal of grass. This allowed us to maintain an acceptable framerate and we can deliver a consistent gameplay experience across all three platforms.

*sigh*

It didn't run great in the demo which didn't have grass, think I'll wait till the game hits the £15-£20 price point before I pick it up.

Though they are all going pretty crazy over in the 2K forums about this at the moment, espicially over the screens that were released with the grass in them, lol.

[Pupik]

*sigh*

It didn't run great in the demo which didn't have grass, think I'll wait till the game hits the ?15-?20 price point before I pick it up.

Though they are all going pretty crazy over in the 2K forums about this at the moment, espicially over the screens that were released with the grass in them, lol.

Why not just pick the game on the PC or the XBOX360 (which by your sig., I guess you got)?

[HostileGamer]

They have already confirmed that the demo for the ps3 was an older build, the retail will have grass. gg nubs

[Pupik]

They have already confirmed that the demo for the ps3 was an older build, the retail will have grass. gg nubs

Are you sure? Because so far, this is the only official message from 2k Games about the issue and it tells the opposite.

[Corris Veteran]

Why not just pick the game on the PC or the XBOX360 (which by your sig., I guess you got)?

I only buy Exclusive, Multi-Player, or old games (that I might have missed and pre-owned games are generally cheaper) on the 360.

And I have no urge to spend money on the full price of a game when from devs that can leave such obvious visual differences.

That and there are a whole load of games that I am more hyped for coming out soon that I believe I will enjoy more for the retail price.

They have already confirmed that the demo for the ps3 was an older build, the retail will have grass. gg nubs

Well what I quoted was what a 2K PR posted 3 hours ago, and they say the pictures with grass on were from a build before they removed the grass for the frame rates sake.

So don't get your hopes up, if it was in there I don't know why they wouldn't have said anything on their raging forums about it.

[HostileGamer]

Yet another obvious port from the XBOX console to the PS3. Poor PS3 :( the better system looses again.

[Victor Rambo]

Guys How to enable night/rain in demo? With hex editior? :o

[Pupik]

Guys How to enable night/rain in demo? With hex editior? :o

No. LUA commands.

http://www.mafia.modmywhat.com/

[san.W10]

thanks Pupik for the link.

Guys How to enable night/rain in demo? With hex editior? :o

Command for Night:

#lua game.gfx:SetWeatherTemplate("DTFreerideNight")

Command for Rain:

#lua game.gfx:SetWeatherTemplate("WTFreeRideDayRain")

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After quite a bit of thought I pre-ordered the Special Edition from Game last night (Made Man DLC, Greaser DLC, printed map). :D

A week ago I wasn't paying attention to this game either, lol.

[inferniac]

Yet another obvious port from the XBOX console to the PS3. Poor PS3 :( the better system looses again.

IMHO PS3 is more powerful, but not better and bad hardware design is to blame.

I don't own a PS3, neither X360 ;)

[strekship]

Yet another obvious port from the XBOX console to the PS3. Poor PS3 :( the better system looses again.

Well at least for once its not PC users getting the shaft with crappy console ports.

[Sethos]

I decided to do a real official thread, just to do the game justice - https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/930298-official-mafia-ii/ (Y)

[Singh400]

I decided to do a real official thread, just to do the game justice - https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/930298-official-mafia-ii/ (Y)

Can we just merge these threads? No point in having 2 main threads running.

[san.W10]

^or we can keep this as Mafia 2 Demo thread :p

[Corris Veteran]

Can we just merge these threads? No point in having 2 main threads running.

Its better this way, when it comes close to a game coming out it should have a new thread so you don't get 20+ pages of random crap that don't have much to do with the final game and peoples impressions and conversations on it, and you dont to trudge through the usual random crap or guess where the conversation starts for release.

At least that is my opinion of it.

[san.W10]

Remove the demo videos for faster loading

C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\mafia ii - public demo\pc\sds\video

Just rename or delete a few files and all is well!

advert.bik

Logos.bik

Nvidia_logo.bik

If you wish to skip the video you see after selecting "Start Demo" just rename or delete fmv0520.bik.

info from here