Max Payne 3 feedback?

[namelessonez]

For all those who have given it a shot, please leave your feedback so that those who are yet to play/ buy it can have an idea. Tell us how your experience has been so far. Also, list out your system specs so that we know how the game is handling on different rigs/ settings.

Perhaps this could help in having a consolidated thread in anticipation of future queries.

 

[ilysaml]

Yes i'm looking forward to seeing the same, people in OClers forums say that the game is very demanding and requires a lot of VRAM, Also a single HD 7970 can't maintain 60 FPS easily...hope this is not true

 

[Gman450]

I hope tom's do a benchmark for the game.
Hope it isn't another bad port...

 

[ilysaml]

Nooooooo!!!
The game was optimized for PC as a standalone version!, it's 26 Gigs, for consoles it's 16 gigs. R* did a great job with this game.

 

[Gman450]

Oh, good.

But, that's a whole lot of space...

 

[sniper2606]

Well i bought the game and cannot launch it

i checked R* and steam forums and its a huge issue with hundreds of people

 

[Gman450]

Well i bought the game and cannot launch it

i checked R* and steam forums and its a huge issue with hundreds of people

Hmmm. Optimization and bug problems?

 

[jimmysmitty]

Yes i'm looking forward to seeing the same, people in OClers forums say that the game is very demanding and requires a lot of VRAM, Also a single HD 7970 can't maintain 60 FPS easily...hope this is not true

I don't think it is. Played 3 hours and maxed out it uses 1.6GB of my HD7970s VRAM and I didn't have any FPS issues with VSYNC on (it was always smooth).

I do however have a OCed HD7970 so that may help too.

BTW:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/jimmysmitty/screenshots/

Thats everything maxed out at 1600x900. Wish I had a bigger monitor but meh. Still the bullet time is AMAZING!!

 

[Gman450]

That's really nice!
Nice textures on the bullet.

 

[foshi13]

It runs incredibly smooth, no lag at all and almost constant 60fps on my 560 Ti and i5 2500k. Neither are overclocked. Only dips into the 50's when things get really intense on screen. I'm having a great time playing it too. The shooting mechanics are amazing and it's never boring.

 

[namelessonez]

I read up somewhere (think it was Metacritic) that there is a 'flywheel' mechanism for the weapons. Is that correct? Because such a mechanism is usually used for console titles. I just hope its not a bad port job!!

sniper2606:
Did you manage to find a fix for the issue?

 

[ilysaml]

I don't think it is. Played 3 hours and maxed out it uses 1.6GB of my HD7970s VRAM and I didn't have any FPS issues with VSYNC on (it was always smooth).

I do however have a OCed HD7970 so that may help too.

BTW:

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/578957862806915298/33FBEF076DA433D8FD0B20EC58F3EF421140FB9C/

http://steamcommunity.com/id/jimmysmitty/screenshots/

Thats everything maxed out at 1600x900. Wish I had a bigger monitor but meh. Still the bullet time is AMAZING!!

I forgot to say, most of the play @ 2560x. I'm surprised that you have this GPU power and running a single monitor @ 1600x.
Some reported that FPS drops to 50 in some locations with a single HD 7970 @ 1080P.
Also some had a graphics message says that they can't enable 8x MSAA due to lack of VRAM.

 

[ilysaml]

It runs incredibly smooth, no lag at all and almost constant 60fps on my 560 Ti and i5 2500k. Neither are overclocked. Only dips into the 50's when things get really intense on screen. I'm having a great time playing it too. The shooting mechanics are amazing and it's never boring.

Settings very high? FXAA or 4x MSSA? Are you playing @ 1080P?

 

[foshi13]

Settings very high? FXAA or 4x MSSA? Are you playing @ 1080P?

Everything is at max and it is 1080p on a 40" screen. I just kept the default FXAA at very high.

 

[ilysaml]

Hope i get the same with my HD 6950, I'm downloading the game.

 

[jimmysmitty]

I read up somewhere (think it was Metacritic) that there is a 'flywheel' mechanism for the weapons. Is that correct? Because such a mechanism is usually used for console titles. I just hope its not a bad port job!!

sniper2606:
Did you manage to find a fix for the issue?

The guns all have many moving parts, and look very realistic. The bullets are rendered in real time (every single one you shoot) which makes it very crazy.

And no, its not a port job. The console version is like 16GB, this is 35GB and has many DX11 features available. I also compared the graphics to some MLG (Major League Gaming, 360 and PS3) videos released and it looks 10xs better.

I forgot to say, most of the play @ 2560x. I'm surprised that you have this GPU power and running a single monitor @ 1600x.
Some reported that FPS drops to 50 in some locations with a single HD 7970 @ 1080P.
Also some had a graphics message says that they can't enable 8x MSAA due to lack of VRAM.

Well when using MSAA you are basically doing the same fram 8 times for the best smoothness to the lines but that seems a tad strange that 3GB of VRAM is not enough when 1600x900, not too far off, is only using 1.6GB of VRAM.

Maybe I will have to borrow a 1080P monitor from work and see or possibly hook my TV up to my PC and see what it gives me.

 

[ilysaml]

I know that technologies such as AA, MSAA, AF, FXAA, QSCAA.. those really feed on the VRAM for rendering the textures and eliminating jaggy edges, And Also I'm not saying that 2 GB or 3GB is not enough but it might be a pain for those who are running cards with 1 GB of VRAM, they are already complaining from a several stutters with HD 5800 cards.

Actually a single HD 7970 is an overkill for such a resolution, maybe you want to upgrade to a 1400P monitor

 

[babarv2]

Great Game.... Playing on ultra with dX11 with 4msxaa with 55-60 fps..! i didnt expecct this Its using only 1278 vram so that means i can max it out with my AMD 7850 HD
this game is brilliantly optimized Guys go for it!

 

[sniper2606]

Not sure how you guys got the game working if bought from steam...

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1439

as you can see hundreds of people including my self cannot play the game.

R* acknowledge the issue and is working on a patch, somebody manage to fix the game with a crack which i did and playing now but cant play online.

On the feedback side the game runs smooth everything maxed out biggest FPS drop was 49.


i5 2500k OC 4.5 with GTX 580

 

[ilysaml]

Nice!!

 

[ilysaml]

On the feedback side the game runs smooth everything maxed out biggest FPS drop was 49.
i5 2500k OC 4.5 with GTX 580

Average FPS? Do you use FXAA and MSAA both?

 

[sniper2606]

Average FPS? Do you use FXAA and MSAA both?

average 52 to 60 goes up on cut scenes of course, and yes everything maxed out, ill get some screenshots when i get later today

 

[RyQril]

thats awesome, actually i am wondering hows it gonna be on my rig
AMD phenom II x4 955 OCed 3.6GHz 4GBramz GTX470...

that could be a problem for me cuz of the 1.2GB of Vram :S

 

[jimmysmitty]

thats awesome, actually i am wondering hows it gonna be on my rig
AMD phenom II x4 955 OCed 3.6GHz 4GBramz GTX470...

that could be a problem for me cuz of the 1.2GB of Vram :S

HardOCP did a review preview and said that if you have issues you can turn off HDAO and use SSAO to get a bit better performance.

They also said that the FXAA does a very good job and is even about as good as 8x MSAA but they didn't get into full detail about if it lowered image quality as FXAA tends to blur the image in post processing while MSAA works on the pixel level.

I am sure they will have a full review and teardown up with more than just GTX680s and HD7970s in a few days.

But you should be fine. Probably not be able to max everything out due to less VRAM but should be able to do higher settings and enjoy it.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Not sure how you guys got the game working if bought from steam...

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1439

as you can see hundreds of people including my self cannot play the game.

R* acknowledge the issue and is working on a patch, somebody manage to fix the game with a crack which i did and playing now but cant play online.

On the feedback side the game runs smooth everything maxed out biggest FPS drop was 49.


i5 2500k OC 4.5 with GTX 580

Honestly? I did nothing to get it to work. It was downloading Thursday night, then at about 75% it started decrypting. Once that finished it finished downloading the last 9GB of data. Just for laughs, I ran a cache verification on it and went to bed.

The next morning I launched it, it did the DX/C++ crap and launched with no issues.