When ever I lower the resolution below anything 1080p or lower the aspect ratio gets messed up and the people become fatter and flatter looking. It's the same with this game. Now is there a tool or something I got to do to fix that or is that just how some pc games are made? I notice in gta IV, that the aspect ratio does not mess up when lowing resolutions.
make sure the ratio is 16:9 if you have a wide screen (usually in brackets). Also ensure that the tv is set to something like dot by dot and not stretching the image.
Do anyone know why computer starts to lag after been playin a game for like 15-20mins it starts lag like hell and i have a really good gaming PC.
If I switch the aspect ratio I get annoying black borders on the side.Originally Posted by chubbychaser
This is my tv monitor thing, Samsung SyncMaster T260HD HDTV monitor 25.5 inch.
You do realise the native resolution of that display is actually 1920 * 1200? as such that makes it 16:10 and NOT 16:9. Whatever you lower the resolution to, choose 16:10 resolutions or of course its gonna start stretching or bordering the picture. 1440 * 900 is a good one if you need to lower res to improve performance.
If you have a list of widescreen resolutions and want to know which are 16:10 you can do a quick calculation by taking the biggest number, dividing by 16 and then multiplying by 10. If it matches the lower number, you got 16:10. If it dont, you dont....
1440 / 16 x 10 = 900
1440 * 900 is thus 16:10.
Last edited by Vulcanproject; 08-20-2010 at 08:40 AM.
But in Gta IV pc it doesn't do that when I lower resolution, the graphics just get worse looking with lower resolution.
Think GTA4 has an auto aspect ratio to adjust it for you. As you said yourself, it happens on everything else, cos they dont have auto feature like GTA. Most dont. Resolution selection is sometimes detected by the game and everything that isnt compatible with your monitor's ratio is removed. Mafia 2 though lets you set whatever you fancy so you have to choose the ratio yourself. You want 16:10 my friend
Last edited by Vulcanproject; 08-20-2010 at 08:28 AM.
Not worth the hassle anyways, I noticed even when I lower my resolution I'm not getting much more fps anyways. I actually get alot more fps if I turn shadows on low and leave graphics on high and then take off the AA. And I don't really notice any difference with the aa set at 0 anyways... Which is odd. V-Sync takes some fps away too but I like leaving that on so I don't get screen tearing.
Last edited by DarkGod; 08-20-2010 at 09:02 AM.
A lot of people like to preserve resolution and lose settings if they can, though some dont mind going below the native res. Turn off SSAO and then proceed to drop others as necessary.
If you are not seeing much of a framerate boost when you drop resolution then it could indicate CPU bound behaviour. Look into the possibility of improving your CPU speed, possible overclocking? You might not care about that sort of thing though, just a side note from me
My cpu is overclocked to 3.8ghz already. Amd Phenom II x4 965 running @3.8ghz.
Plenty of CPU performance then. As long as you remember for future reference with games now to look for the right aspect ratio resolutions. Assuming you have a halfway modern graphics card too then expect a driver update in the near future with mafia 2 optimisations, along with hopefully some extra final version tweaks that should boost up performance that bit more.
Usually i see some good performance hikes when driver versions targets new games like this. I expect to see mafia 2 specificallly mentioned in nvidia's release notes for their next update no doubt
Last edited by Vulcanproject; 08-20-2010 at 09:37 AM.
I have a gigabyte gtx 470 1280mb card, when I bought my card it was like 350 bucks plus tax and it came to a total of 383 bucks. Thats the most I ever spent on a graphics card. The card I had before this was a 8800gts 320mb card which I spent like 300-350 bucks*including the tax.
I've noticed you've had nothing but trouble with the demo from your posts on here m8, but with your specs you shouldn't be having any problems running this game especially without physx on,
iv'e got a 480, with an overclocked q6600 to 3.6 and it runs fine with physx on high, so it must be software on your rig ie. drivers, antivirus, programs running in the background, PC not configured right, etc, that are causing your problems, it cannot be your hardware, as other PC users on here with a lot lower specs than you, have no trouble running the demo without physx,
if you can play other games with no trouble then your hardware isn't faulty!!
I can run the game fine, its just sometimes I noticed slow-downs at spots. And I think it had to do with me having the shadows set high. When I set the shadows on low and set the Afx to 1x I get 60-50fps on avrg I believe. Atleast thats what fraps is telling me. And then when I set shadows on high it makes it stutter at times between 30-20fps. I didn't try medium settings on shadow and not sure I should. I think I can run physx on medium and shadows on low and the geomatic graphics thing on high and it will be good setting for me.
Last edited by DarkGod; 08-20-2010 at 05:02 PM.
A 470 should be able to run high shadows, with no problem really, do you get stutter with physx off and high shadows?
The most I ever spent on a single card was $369.00 and that was the first generation Gforce 3 with 64mb of ram.
i spent like 700 bucks on a 8800 ultra oc.
most i paid was $329.99 which was for a Geforce 7900GT 256MB back in March 2006 (which at that time was near top of the line). which i recently replaced with a 'Radeon HD 5670 512MB' (i.e. about a Geforce 9800GT in Nvidia terms) which worked wonders for my gaming performance (on Mafia II as it was not playable on 7900GT and now it is) and it sips power to as it gets it's power from the motherboard to.
in general though i think the sweet spot for graphics cards, especially nowadays, is in the $200 range as you can usually get a strong card for a reasonable price without paying through the roof for it because 300+ is to expensive as the only reason i did it on mine was because i was looking at total PC cost and not the video card itself.
but that Radeon HD 5670 512MB card i got for $79.99 on newegg recently which it's a pretty solid card for that price range as it's basically Geforce 9800GT level performance (or just shy)
i have a Geforce 3 ti200 64MB in my old 1.2ghz PC. but i surely paid no where near that much for it but then again i am pretty sure i did not get it when it was super new like you surely must have.
i would suspect it got that around 2003-ish. and according to Wikipedia it came out in 2001.
man that's messed up... $3xx is expensive but still reasonable. but $700 is just not worth it at all considering the price will plummet on those cars in half in not long etc.
hell for that price you can build a entire PC. lol
Last edited by ThaCrip; 08-21-2010 at 05:58 AM.
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