mafia problems

[acal3000]

[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

[Grumpy]

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.

[t.foster73]

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.