mafia problems
 

I have problems with Mafia the game runs very slow than should be I tried lowering th resolution, defrag and using the chkdskand, disabling the antivirus aumenting the swap file but didn't work. What can I do to correct this problem?

My specs are
Compaq
Pentium 4 1.5 Ghx
256 Mb ram
Nvidia gforce mx4000 128 Mb(66.93 drivers)
integrated ac 97 soundcard
Windows XP Sp2
Direct X 9.0c

Hi acal3000,

If your problem is not related to the no-CD patch then, please, contact the game manufacturer or the game publisher or search around the official game support forum. Good luck,

Joe

you could try disabling any other software running in the background, e.g take unnecessary stuff out of the startup by using msconfig in run, and unselecting stuff you dont need to be running. Then ensure you disable anti-virus and firewall before starting up the game.

Start at the lowest res in the game, and build it up to an acceptable level in terms of performance vs quality.

I think your pc covers the requirements easily enough, so its strange that it doesnt run too well. :confused:

I'm guessing that your graphics driver is up to date.

Hope this helps.

GeForce MX4000 is the problem. Poor videocard.

whatever u say jlc... ¬¬

that card is more than enough to run mafia in a decent resolution, i know this because i played mafia in my old amd 1.3 wirth a gforce 2 mx 400 64mb

Someone revived my old post, anyways it seems I have found the problem. It seems to be the service pack 2

4 days ago I formated my computer again and installed win xp without any updates and reinstalled mafia again and was working fine I reinstalled the sp2 and started to lag again

Its the audio onboard, SP2 installs DirectX9c with sound acceleration set to highest, set to none or basic since you have a software sound card and see what happens.

@dabhand thanks a lot for your advice worked great

Not only worked with mafia, worked with tribes vengence too that is a cpu killer even the loading times are more faster when I bought Tribes was so desiilussionated with the perfomance but now works I'm going to prove this with another games that used to lag like Gothic 2 and others

man these onboard sound cards seems to be very cheesy

I to was able to run Mafia no probs with my old rig. GeForce4 MX440 64MB. AMD Duron 1.2 and 256MB RAM. MOBO was an MSI offering with On board sound (cant remember the specs now). The game ran perfectly!. Anyway acal3000 Dont be dishartend by posts stating your GPU is crap. (its not,Ok fair enough it wont run some of the newer games,BIA,HL2,DOOM3 ect but it will do a decent job running other older games. Its only the DirectX 9.c compatible games it wont run (if memory serves me correctly). Glad you managed to sort your prob (SP2). Mafia is a decent game.

[crap. (its not,Ok fair enough it wont run some of the newer games,BIA,HL2,DOOM3 ect but it will do a decent job running other older games. Its only the DirectX 9.c compatible games it wont run (if memory serves me correctly). [/QUOTE]

I have played HL2 and Farcry and don't run so bad

I play a lot of games and have never had an issue with SP2? It actually increases performance on most games and the few it decreases is hardly noticeable anyway! I'm sure i read somewhere online that it only decreases some games by a maximum of 3%! And this is only a very few games! ;)
Admittingly I do have a 3.2ghz cpu hence why i dont notice any decreases anyway! I'm also sure one of the games its supposed to decrease performance by as much as the 3% on is UT2004 and I play that without noticing it. And Mafia plays fine. ;)

I must say that MAFIA has NEVER run well on any rig I've had. A few days ago I installed it on my 3500 A64, 2GB DDR, 6800 Ultra system and it was as bad as ever. I don't know why this is, as I have installed all the patches. A guy in my local PC shop said this game ran perfectly on their machine. when he ran it I was amazed at his definition of 'perfect'. It looked like a slide show to me. It all depends on how well you're used to games running. I personally only like to play with Butter Smooth frame rates. MAFIA and DOOM3 are the only 2 games that my system doesn't seem to like. I could try all the Doom 3 tweaks, but it's C**P anyway, so I won't bother!


p.s.This is a shop bought original, not a dodgy copy before anyone asks.