VOGONS


First post, by cydvog

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie

hi, in a game Mafia city of lost heaven , sometimes i get instant fps drops , tried many drivers and tweaks ( like widescreen patch ) . also dgvodoo.

tried both Nvidia gt710 ( 2gb) and amd radeon 6850 ( 1 gb ) both cards has same problem.

yes its not affect so much to a game but its a boring anyway.

thanks for answers.

Reply 1 of 5, by xelizor

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie

Hi, which OS are you running it on?

Reply 2 of 5, by cydvog

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie

its windows 7 64 bit , with not so quality cheap esonic mobo , 4 gb ram , i5 4590 ( 4th generation ) cpu.

maybe this game is too old for these cards , maybe problem is OS ?

Reply 4 of 5, by xelizor

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie

I think Mafia runs pretty much on anything.

Your processor is strong enough to run it. The problem is the game being an old game, it only uses one cpu core for everything. Given that be aware of the draw distance setting on the widescreen patch configuration ini... Even more "recent" cpus like yours can have a difficult time rendering the whole map.

Given that you're using windows 7 I would use dxvk (google the last version still compatible with windows 7) with your gt 710, as your 6850 doesn't support vulkan.

If you're willing to give 6850 a try first, try to disable Hardware T&L (or enable Software T&L, I don't remember how it's called) and see if that makes a difference.

Cheers

Reply 5 of 5, by cydvog

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie
xelizor wrote on 2025-11-23, 15:20:
I think Mafia runs pretty much on anything. […]
Show full quote

I think Mafia runs pretty much on anything.

Your processor is strong enough to run it. The problem is the game being an old game, it only uses one cpu core for everything. Given that be aware of the draw distance setting on the widescreen patch configuration ini... Even more "recent" cpus like yours can have a difficult time rendering the whole map.

Given that you're using windows 7 I would use dxvk (google the last version still compatible with windows 7) with your gt 710, as your 6850 doesn't support vulkan.

If you're willing to give 6850 a try first, try to disable Hardware T&L (or enable Software T&L, I don't remember how it's called) and see if that makes a difference.

Cheers

thanks for info , but this problem is not on all screens of game, for example in firts mission , after car chasing scene there is no drops, game runs normally.