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Old 28-01-2005, 04:20
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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,

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Old 28-01-2005, 04:34
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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.

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

Hope this helps.
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GeForce MX4000 is the problem. Poor videocard.
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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
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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
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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.
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Quote:
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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
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