Mafia II

Often a critical error message appears, after which the game ends. There are also problems with rendering textures and characters. Some characters may be completely invisible, some may be an unusual color (for example, yellow).
Most often, departures occur after cut-scenes, especially if you skip this scene.
Ubuntu 17.10 (with xfce4 and x)
Wine-2.0.2 (Ubuntu 2.0.2-2ubuntu1)
Proprietary nvidia driver 384.90

amd fx4100
nvidia gtx750ti

Tested on:

Wine 1.7.7 (compilado)
Nvidia Drivers 331.20 (.run package)
Linux Mint 15 KDE 32Bit - Kernel 3.8.0.26 PAE
CPU: INTEL Pentium G3220 (Nucleo Haswell a 22nm) 3.0Ghz (Dual-Core) Stock Clock
MEM: 8GB DDR3 1333 (2x4) Patriot value (128 bit dual channel: 21.3 gb/s)
GPU: Zotac Nvidia Geforce GT630 (GK208 28nm: 384 Shaders / 8 ROPS) Zone Edition Passive Cooling 2GB DDR3 1800Mhz a 64Bit (14.4Gb/s)
MAINBOARD: MSI H81M E33

www.youtube.com/watch?v=alHldDGafdk

OK, so I finally made the game work, but my only issue with the game had something to do with them shadow maps. They don't appear at all, although gameplay isn't that affected. Can it be fixed via Winetricks or something?

I can start the game and browse through the menus, but whenever I begin a new game or access the Carcyclopedia the game crashes and throws out an unhandled exception:

wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address (nil) (thread 0009), starting debugger...

IDK if it's because I'm using Skidrow's version (since I'm using the said exe to run DLC mods) or if there's something wrong with my wine config.

NVM, the game runs on 1.3.27.

I was able to get the game to work several weeks ago using the instructions for the last post in this thread:

forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=47885&sid=7e7fa8693d39bd6e0558565f3d5efa35

And I was able to play Mafia 2 for several days afterwards. However, now when I go in game and actually try to start a game, be it Jimmy's Vendetta or the regular main game it locks up. For both, it will lock up right when you select the difficulty level. I have reinstalled Linux Mint, Steam, Mafia 2, etc and I still get the same issue. My video card drivers the same I used when it was working (current), so I cannot figure it out. Wine was not updated during that period.

Can confirm it totally. No idea how to solve it. Also tried to deactivate Steam overlay, doesn't change anything... just bought joes adventure and can't play...

Don't install update no. 3 and use at most Wine 1.3.7

Anyone else have a problem with Mafia 2 crashing as it launches? In either full screen or windowed, as soon as the logo leaves the screen and its about to make the transition it dies.

Any work around? Did any one else have this problem before?
thanks

Happens to me with ATI card.

I'm on a 460 GTX. I thought it might have something to do with Pyshx but no luck in playing around with it. Anyone else figure this out?

Hello! Where can I find and change this keys?
"
DirectDrawRenderer = opengl
Multisampling = enabled
Nonpower2Mode = repack
OffscreenRenderingMode = fbo (backbuffer renders incorrectly)
RenderTargetLockMode = readtex
UseGLSL = disabled
VertexShaderMode = hardware
"
I installed M2 under Windows, but M2 could be running without registry keys. (under another Windows copy for example)
I need to install my Mafia2 under linux one more time to get access throught regedit.exe?

PS Sorry for bad English) Its not my mother tongue)

wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

Check that out.

Just installed NVIDIA's new Beta drivers (260.19.04)

I've gone from 5-7fps up to 12-15fps. Much nicer.

Game unplayable due to steam update, please confirm it. Bug 24096

Set gameoverlayrenderer to disabled in your winecfg. It "fix" that bug.

Confirmed, thanks

where in winecfg i disable gameoverlayrenderer

thanks for help

In winecfg->libraries

When you use OffscreenRenderingMode=fbo in the Direct3D regedit option (default option) the game is slow and unplayable. But when you change fbo to backbuffer, FPS are ok but there is a lot of graphics errors and the game is, again, unplayable.

yeah, one wrote here that after set UseGLSL=disabled helps but... I cannot see any difference, the game is still painfully slow...

UseGLSL=Disabled, is for Nvidia binary drivers only, somehow their ARB functions are faster than GLSL.

Yes, set UseGLSL to disabled increase the FPS. But it still low in some scenes.

So, have you setup your game finally? I got the same problems as you. With backbuffer set i can see only a 20% of normal game. Is there a way to avoid this ?

Well I have NVIDIA drivers but it doesn't work faster according to benchmark (8.1fps, 800x600, low) :) but it is playable.

Well, I was suscesfull just on 1st run, another ends in hang of the game just before NVIDIA video and nothing else... do anyone know how to setup videoconfig.cfg to run this properly? 24 24 1024 768 0 0 0 1 doesn't seem right to me. I use NVIDIA 9600GT, latest stable drivers...

When you dont hear anything, try to update/install your OpenAL 32bit library, it is used by Mafia 2.

Well, I think I have the latest, I have 1.12.854... what do you think?

OK, no sound resolved - installed steam with game in clean prefix (e.g. using PlayOnLinux) and setup openal using oalsoft-conf -> blacklisted pulseaudio (I do not use it), disabled mmap, set-up speakers to stereo.

To get sound working set mmdevapi library to disabled. It's the same issue than Borderlands or StarCraft II.

Sorry, wanted to say "now sound resolved" :)

Hi,have you tried the howto from demo to run the game? It is shipped with steam on DVD isn't it?

Ok i tried and now i can play the game, but the video scenes are crappy and the ingame speed is terrible.

Slow gaming is the same issue as in demo but the crappy videos are new issue :/
could you please vote for this game?
And if you can, please upload screenshot of video scene...

How did you get past this paste2.org/p/971975

See the link for bug #23964. You can recompile wine 1.3.1 with that mentioned line commented out, or just copy in-game profile from another machine.

I did,

$ pwd
/home/ielectric/.wine/drive_c/users/ielectric/Local Settings/Application Data/2K Games/Mafia II/Saves
$ cat videoconfig.cfg
24 24 1280 800 0 0 0 1

Creating videoconfig.cfg file was not enough to me. I had to copy whole "2K Games" directory.

Hey, can you rar it upload it somewhere?

I plead too for the rar or tgz archive, I have problems with it too.