Parts of the city disappear / car falls through void

[SlipperyCustomer]

Hey everyone... since this is one of the more common problems that people seem to be having, I'm stickying this thread and I've collected a bunch of similar postings together here. If you run into this problem, make sure to post what platform you're running the game on - I notice that it's not just PC users - and if you're on PC, post your specs and try to post a screenshot. Thanks! - Relight

Hi,

Just downloaded the demo on Steam, but it's unplayable due to a bug that has made almost everything invisible - only some outlines are visible.

I have tried all combinations of settings and nothing works. My specs are:

Radeon 4890 1GB
Phenom II X2 550
4GB RAM

Here are some screens (dont use img tags for really large images):

http://www.abload.de/img/mafia22010-08-1023-56-bp3d.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/mafia22010-08-1023-55-osg6.jpg

My rig is not the problem. All temps are fine. All games I have work fine except this one.

[Chicago Typewriter]

Hello,

I just typed stuff in another topic that may help you too

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79496

I think you should install directx from the mafia 2 demo folder also manually

[SlipperyCustomer]

Hello,

I just typed stuff in another topic that may help you too

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79496

I think you should install directx from the mafia 2 demo folder also manually

Unfortunately no luck.

I also tried updating the GPU driver earlier to Catalyst 1.7.

[SlipperyCustomer]

Any fixes for this?

I have the game on pre-order, but I really hope the final game doesn't turn out like this.

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[Jac3624]

I would suggest making sure everything is up-to-date(ie.Video card drivers, DirectX...).

Try reinstalling the demo, you may also want to try turning down your settings. Your graphics card should be more then able to handle the game, but you never know.

[Xtreme]

I'm having the same problem, also with the Mafia II Demo.

It has something to do with anti-aliasing, since I found it that turning it ON in the game options actually makes the game textures appear, and everything looks good aside from the fact that AA seems to be OFF. And then, if you put it OFF in the game options, then everything looks as in your screenshots. However, I noticed that, on the very few things that are shown in this case, such as car windows, or the garage doors...or some characters eyelashes (seeing eyelashes "fly around" is indeed creepy)...well, all those seem to have AA ON on them. Weird.

Let's hope we dont have this strange problems in the full game

I have an ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5, with the latest drivers.

[CaptainTripps]

I had an issue somewhat like that, except it only happened when I reached a certain part... Like I fell through a hole or soemthing lol. Updating to the latest catalyst and reinstalling the demo fixed it though.

[Kleetus]

I'm using Catalyst 10.7 and it runs OK.

If anyone is still having issues, disable Catalyst AI.

[bEARit]

I played through some of the first missions, taking a break after I stole the car for the junkyard owner and returned it. I later came back, started up the game and picked Continue.

The ground is missing. The car I just falls as soon as the scene loads. Much of the world is missing as well. If I try to walk anywhere, I too fall through the ground.

Is there any way to skip back a mission, or do I have to restart from the beginning?

It should have read: "The car I just stole falls..."

I tried restarting the mission a few times. This had no effect. I finally quit to the main menu and re-continued, and it loaded correctly this time.

It seems to happen the first time I start up the game and pick "Continue". If I quit and reload, it fixes itself.

Ha. Well, after Continuing, then reloading to fix the missing world around me, I thought everything was fine, but it's not. I'm on the mission where you drive the drunks back to Joe's while they sing. I was probably about 20 seconds away from the start point and noticed the world I was coming up to was missing. I subsequently fell through the world and got the achievement "Pedal to the metal".

[rick2201]

is your game installed to the hard drive mine is and im having no problems
i do have problems on 1 mission im going to shoot some guy in front of me and you know he disappears

[AfrikaKorps]

Hi,

I have been playing this game for about 3 hours, but I am at a point where I cannot continue. The city area of Sand Island is buggy. There are no buildings, and the driving on the roads lead you to leaving the game area and falling through the world. Its like the area has no collision detection.

Configuration:
Intel Core i7 920
Asus P6T6 WS Revolution
Sapphire 5870 1GB
6GB RAM
Windows 7 x64
Catalyst™ Version 10.7
Steam Version of Mafia II

I have attached a screenshot where you can see a truck falling through the world.

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/7...reismycity.png

[AfrikaKorps]

And an image of me following the truck

http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/2...eismycity2.png

[grant!]

I'm having trouble with the top left of the map. It doesn't load. All I get is a barely rendered area, and non-solid surfaces. Cars spawn and just drive and fall off the edge (or THROUGH the road). The mission I am on requires me to go to this area so I can't continue. I keep falling through the world. This seems to be just the top left corner area of the map.

Weird?!

[grant!]

Anyone?

http://i38.tinypic.com/noiy9y.jpg

[Relight]

Wow!

Can you please also post this in Liz's "Report Tech Problems Here" thread?

There isn't official tech staff here, so I want to make sure she sees it. She's taking all issues reported in that thread and passing them on to the team:

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82080

Someone posted a website that has helped some users. You could check to see if anything that might be related to your problem is here:

http://segmentnext.com/2010/08/24/ma...graphics-bugs/

You could also try restarting the mission and see if that helps at all. I know it's a pain to restart a mission, but I'm sorry that I don't have any other suggestions for you!

[AfrikaKorps]

Hi Grant,

I saw the same issue:
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82489

[SlipperyCustomer]

I'm using Catalyst 10.7 and it runs OK.

If anyone is still having issues, disable Catalyst AI.

Yeah, this works. As for the above poster who said it only works with AA on - enable "use application settings" under the AA tab in Catalyst. You can switch off AA in game this way without the invisible glitch happening.

It would be good if 2K could patch the game to fix this, or if ATi could release a hotfix, so that we 4xxx/5xxx card owners can force proper MSAA support through the drivers (like Nvidia users can). The current AA option is obviously bugged (and blows anyway, considering I got a 50% framerate boost with it off and it looks barely different).

Apart from this bug, good game. I like how the controls are similar to Kane & Lynch 2.

[Jockie]

1) When I play the game, I only see clouds, windows and flags.

Screen: Image

2) When I close/tab the game, the screen gets a dark.
I have to press ALT-CTRL-DEL everytime when I close/tab this game to get my screen brighter.

3) After changing the screen resolution, my screen get's underscanned.

Screen get's smaller, like this: Image

4) At the first run of mafia2.exe the game crashed at the loading screen, I tried the administration mode and then it wanted to install Nvidia PhysX..

I'm using an ATI HD5770 1GB-GDDR5 card.
I just switched from Nvidia to ATI, because my 9800GT 1GB-DDR3 crashed 2 times in 5 months.
And yes: I have the newest driver of the Catalyst Center.
And yes: I've updated my DirectX.


(If it's allowed to ask: "Why PhysX?..")

[grant!]

I don't know the names of the areas yet, but if this is the top left area of the map I'm having this same problem. I'm trying a fresh re-install along with a new game in hopes to fix this as it is game breakingly bad!

S

[dodraugen]

ok so i got the game for PC today.

On one of the chapters your supposed to sell some stamps to the gas stations around town. so i am driving around and selling these when i suddenly see all the cars driving infront of me falling through the ground
i myself did also fall becaus i was driving so fast

Me and my car just kept falling and falling. So i had to start over and then i found out i could go to some other gas stations.

When i got to the next chapter i had to pick up a heavy MG (think ist the same chapter in the demo). I got this gun and i have to drive it to the other guys and you know what? The place i am going to meet them is the same place where cars and ppl just fall through the ground.
Name of the place is Sand Island.

So now im stuck on a chapter and im kinda sad

Anybody else had this problem on PC?

[N8TR0]

I got the same problem I'm really disappointed of this game never had such a unfinished game with such huge bugs since Gothic 3 in the first mission after the fight with the guy I cant complete the mission because the street is gone before I reach the objective and I fall down trough the ground ever and ever again that crap makes me really angry I pay 50 Euro for nothing because I cant do anything without falling trough the ground......

[dodraugen]

well i hope they can fix this problem. not any fun to use alot of money on a game and you only get to play it for 10-20 min before it f**ks you

[AfrikaKorps]

I saw the same issue:
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82489

[2K Elizabeth]

I'll talk to the team and report this to them. I haven't ever seen this in any of our versions.

[Kleetus]

For a temporary workaround, try lowering resolution and/or game settings.

[Kleetus]

Try lowering resolution and/or graphics settings.

[AfrikaKorps]

I tried that, as well as trying with window / full screen mode. Doesn't work unfortunately.

[maceisi]

hi,

i've got a problem at the beginning at capter 1. When the vidoesequenz is over and the game beginn, the only thing that i see, is a skybox, some windows and flags.
I dont know what i can do to fix it. I've testet some video setting but always the same problem.

PC-System

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955
Graka: ATI HD4870 Catalyst 10.8 (same problem with 10.7)
RAM: 4 GB DDR2
Win7 64-bit

here is a screenshot about my problem



PS: sorry for my bad english :/

[Nugman]

Same here:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700
ATI HD5850, Catalyst 10.8
4 GB DDR2
Win7 64Bit

Yesterday after initial installation all went fine (I had ~60FPS), but today I can see only clouds at ~10 FPS with stuttering sound. Strangest thing is, that already the intro-screens from Nvidia and 2k are stuttering.

Please remember me never to buy a game on release day ...

[Nugman]

Ok, issue solved for my part. I just enabled "Antialiasing", then the graphics is fine again.

It seems the low FPS and stuttering sound was caused by the XBox360 controller emulator that I have installed from the Tutorial in the other thread to support my Logitech FF Wheel.
Unfortunately now I'm not able to use the wheel again ...

[maceisi]

Thanks for the tip with the Antialiasing. I've enabled the "Use application settings" in the CCC and its fine

[Slasz]

Hi, I have the same problem, look at my video:

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

is it the same bug?

[ivanhun18]

I bought the game for my 360, i like the game but there i a part of the city which i have to avoid as i fall through the ground. Is there someway i can fix this that does not involve me just selling the game.

the bug didnt bother me until i had to do a mission there now i cant get near the place and it is fack annoyin

[kgoerz]

I'm using the xbox360. Every time we go to dump the body with the two drunks the world disappears and you fall into a void. This sucks. $60.00 and I got only one hour of Game.
Anyone know if XBOX Live will have a fix it patch.

[wingers17]

Happens to me in chapter 7, same street every-time. In Chinatown. On way to to the bar with Eddie and Joe. I have tried everything that's suggested in this thread, but reloading and replaying the game over.

The world stops and everyone falls through the street. I guess I can't finish until it's fixed. I may try to replay chapter 6, to see what happens.

I have a ATI 5850.

Edit: Uninstall and Reinstall fixed my problem.

[Jockie]

I know how to solve it!

For: Only see clouds, windows and flags.

Open your Catalyst Center.
Tab: Graphics > 3D

Standart Settings > Scroll to Quality, Check: Use costum settings.
Tab: AA > Scroll to the middle, Check: Use application settings.
Tab: AAMode > Scroll to performance
Tab: AF > Scroll to 16X, Check: Use application settings.
Tab: AI > Scroll to the left > Check: Disable Catalyst A.I
Tab: Mipmap > Scroll to quality.

It works!
I have now: Image
Instead of: Image

[Xtreme]

I know how to solve it!

For: Only see clouds, windows and flags.

Open your Catalyst Center.
Tab: Graphics > 3D

Standart Settings > Scroll to Quality, Check: Use costum settings.
Tab: AA > Scroll to the middle, Check: Use application settings.
Tab: AAMode > Scroll to performance
Tab: AF > Scroll to 16X, Check: Use application settings.
Tab: AI > Scroll to the left > Check: Disable Catalyst A.I
Tab: Mipmap > Scroll to quality.

It works!
I have now: Image
Instead of: Image

Yeah, its all about not forcing the AA through the drivers. I forced it with RadeonPro and got this same bug, however the windows and flags have AA applied on them (actually a much better AA than the in-game one) and they also seem to be on your screenshots. Setting everything to "Use application settings" solves the problem. However I dont like the AA in Mafia II at all, its blurry on distant things...

Would be nice if we ATI users could force the AA through the drivers...

[alexlacco]

I found a big bug during the game Mafia II Pc.
When i save joe and he tells me that needs a doctor, the scenario become grey and i start to fall down through clouds and i leave the City over my head.
I tried to restart mission but i had the same error.
Please help me!

[Blubberlutsch]

Yeah the car falling the the Map bug here as well. But Im in the Mission following the Chinese Dope Boss. Its the same bug, where you fall under the map, is it was posted before and shown in youtube vids. Plz fix it 2k Games!
Thank you , )