Thread: Mafia 2 - Performance Report

There are games, the much expected to be many of. One of these is without doubt mafia 2, successor to one of the most successful PC games of all time. Even if the full version to be serviced here a few days, it has 2K Czech fortunately not take leave producers little demo version for download and one that is less true, but technically different from the final product. Perfect, already run a statement about the performance requirements of the game in order to be able to meet.

So we do not deal with this report on the fun of Mafia 2 but focus on the technical impressions.

Mafia 2 offers much for the eye and should be able to settle much of the aid of GPU PhysX from the console version. To what extent this is true, is only one aspect that we look forward to the following pages. Because just as we pay attention to the performance of Mafia 2 in terms of processors and graphics cards, to the "strange anti-aliasing" and finally to 3D vision. How has the technology of Mafia 2?

The developer 2K Czech has developed its own engine called Mafia 2 illusion. Illusion is a Direct X 9 renderer and thus forgoes modern APIs such as Direct X 10 or even Direct X 11 As a special highlight of the technology by the applicant to include ambient occlusion, soft shadows and depth of field, where the terms are as usual very informative and instead concern is how they are implemented.

It has 2k Czech basically done nothing wrong, because the graphics do to please mainly in Mafia. Above all, how detailed the environment has been implemented is impressive.