Mafia 2 Official PC Specs: dedicated PhysX GPU recommended
2K Czech has revealed requirements and recommendations for Mafia 2 PC version:
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP (SP2 or later) / Windows Vista / Windows 7
Processor: Pentium D 3Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ (Dual core) or higher
RAM: 1.5 GB
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8600 / ATI HD2600 Pro or better
Hard Disc Space: 8 GB
Sound Card: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Peripherals: Keyboard and mouse or Windows compatible gamepad
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP (SP2 or later) / Windows Vista / Windows 7
Processor: 2.4 GHz Quad Core processor
RAM: 2 GB
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX / ATI Radeon HD 3870 or better
Hard Disc: 10 GB
Sound Card: 100% DirectX 9.0c compliant card
Peripherals: Keyboard and mouse or Windows compatible gamepad
PHYSX/APEX ENHANCEMENTS SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP (SP2 or later) / Windows Vista / Windows 7
Minimum Processor: 2.4 GHz Quad Core processor
Recommended Processor: 2.66 GHz Core i7-920
RAM: 2 GB
Video Cards and resolution: APEX medium settings
Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 (or better) for Graphics and a dedicated NVIDIA 9800GTX (or better) for PhysX
Recommended: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 (or better)
Video Cards and resolution: APEX High settings
Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 (or better) and a dedicated NVIDIA 9800GTX (or better) for PhysX
Recommended: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 for Graphics and a dedicated NVIDIA GTX 285 (or better) for PhysX
NVIDIA GPU driver: 197.13 or later.
NVIDIA PhysX driver: 10.04.02_9.10.0522. Included and automatically installed with the game.
Hm, strange APEX requirements.
I can understand, why decent dedicated GPU is required – but why a GTX 480 as main graphics, and i7 CPU ?! APEX effects just won’t add that much details
Zogrim (QUOTE)
Zogrim
9 Jul 10 at 10:32 am
I don’t think that it really needs specs like this for APEX. But we will see when game will be released. Interesting is that in recommended settings you need only 9800GTX but in recommended settings using APEX you need much more better card even if you have dedicated PhysX GPU. Does it mean that APEX has capability to use more than one card to compute physcal instrutions?
mareknr (QUOTE)
mareknr
9 Jul 10 at 11:39 am
10.04.02_9.10.0522? Now where is the version number and where is the date?.. this is confusing.
GenL (QUOTE)
GenL
9 Jul 10 at 12:11 pm
wow, they say ,,if you play games today, play Mafia 2 too,,
8600 GT, 9800GTX+, GTX470(80) 
:D
who have this GK
MicrO (QUOTE)
MicrO
9 Jul 10 at 12:39 pm
I think it’s suck nvidia’s marketing.
name me (QUOTE)
name me
9 Jul 10 at 2:01 pm
to name me:
so i tink, GTX260, 275, 285 run Mafia 2 in 1680×1080, high settings and HIGH APEX
marketing is only high-settings APEX, GTX480, 470 …
but how wrote mareknr – in recommended is 9800GTX+, but in APEX medium settings is GTX260 + 9800GTX+ ..
MicrO (QUOTE)
MicrO
9 Jul 10 at 2:11 pm
Game with High APEX settings will need dedicated PhysX GPU. I think that one GPU isn’t enough for graphics and PhysX.
mareknr (QUOTE)
mareknr
9 Jul 10 at 2:13 pm
yea, graphgic-physx is bad in G200 generation, fermi is much better ..
MicrO (QUOTE)
MicrO
9 Jul 10 at 4:45 pm
,,you have,, graphic, my bad ..sorry
MicrO (QUOTE)
MicrO
9 Jul 10 at 4:46 pm
Just be patient, wait a year or two before playing it and then the hardware requirements are easy, plus the game is much cheaper.
As for the requirements, I imagine the APEX stuff has fluid particle effects with like 1000000x overdraw…
David Black (QUOTE)
David Black
9 Jul 10 at 8:15 pm
Gees those are some serious recommendations.
xDee xDee (QUOTE)
xDee xDee
10 Jul 10 at 12:22 am
Hope my HD5970 + 9800GTX are gonna be enough to run this game on Mam settings and High APEX
John (QUOTE)
John
12 Jul 10 at 12:44 am
I think this means that you are better off with a 5870+GTX260-216 than a GTX480?
P10-17000 (QUOTE)
P10-17000
13 Jul 10 at 12:08 am
Is it game or NVIDIA advertising?
Alexandr82 (QUOTE)
Alexandr82
14 Jul 10 at 10:41 pm
Of course it is a marketing ploy by Nvidia
OK if you want to play Mafia II at a resolution
of 2560 x 1600 with 16 x FSAA and 16 x AF
with everything on ultra settings then having
two GPUs (one for graphics and the other as
a dedicated PhysX card) but with 1680 x 1050
on high settings a single GTX460 to 480 should
be able to handle both graphics, physX and apex.
I would be interested to see if using CPU supported
physX could be tweaked to it’s full potential.
MugZ (QUOTE)
MugZ
15 Jul 10 at 8:58 pm
Now 2K specs are looking strange.. even HD 5870 can’t handle Mafia2 above 30 fps on full settings (without APEX).. there is no point to “recommend” 9800GTX then
Zogrim (QUOTE)
Zogrim
21 Jul 10 at 11:48 am
@Zogrim
looks like fake, old drivers used in test, and ForceWare 197.13 doesn’t support GF100.
anyway, demo will be out at 10th august, we`ll see.
3p (QUOTE)
3p
24 Jul 10 at 7:16 pm
The benchmark in the demo tells me that the recommendations are not so true
Here are my results:
C2D E8500@3.8GHZ | ATI HD5870@Stock | no Physx | AAon | 16xAF ==> ~55.5FPS
C2D E8500@3.8GHZ | ATI HD5870@Stock | medium Physx | AAon | 16xAF ==> ~23.1FPS
C2D E8500@3.8GHZ | ATI HD5870@Stock | no Physx | AAon | 16xAF ==> ~14.1FPS (immersive but too low FPS)
I decided to buy an 9800gt green edition, when the game lauches.
pax (QUOTE)
pax
11 Aug 10 at 11:48 pm
pax may be last is with high Physx
[nv40] (QUOTE)
[nv40]
27 Aug 10 at 12:33 am
NVIDIA PhysX driver: 10.04.02_9.10.0522. Included and automatically installed with the game.
and this kind of not correct version as i see latest is .0513
[nv40] (QUOTE)
[nv40]
27 Aug 10 at 12:36 am