We're rolling out an update for Mafia: The Old Country that addresses a wide range of reported issues and improves stability on all platforms. We appreciate your patience as we make these refinements, and we want to thank everyone who has given feedback and helped make the experience better for all players.

Gameplay

• Addressed various instances of companion characters like Luca, Cesare, and others not performing required actions, resulting in blocked progress. If you encounter this issue, reloading your last checkpoint should resolve it.
• Performing a takedown on a specific guard is no longer a requirement to complete the objective in the Customs Warehouse in Chapter 3 if the player is able to avoid it.
• Addressed reported instances of invisible collisions present in unwanted locations.
• Addressed reported instances of missing or misplaced combat covers.
• General improvements to Enemy AI reaction timing, pathing, and behavior.
• General improvements to Friendly and Neutral NPC pathing, animation, and behavior.
• Various gameplay fixes and improvements.

Visuals

• Addressed reported ghosting issues during certain cinematics when using upscaling.
• Visual improvements to cinematics on ultrawide displays.
• Improved hair physics behavior in various cinematics where flickering could sometimes be observed.
• Visual improvements on various cinematics lighting, VFX, popping, and clipping.
• Various visual fixes and improvements.

UI

• Addressed a reported issue causing the Main Menu background to revert to its initial state when starting a new story playthrough after completing it for the first time.
• Improvement to contextual HUD functionality.
• Addressed several reported instances of missing subtitles throughout the game in all languages.
• Various UI fixes and improvements.

Audio

• Addressed several reported instances of audio (music/ambient/VO) not playing throughout the game.
• Addressed several reported instances of mismatched audio and subtitles throughout the game.

Animation

• Addressed several reported issues of animation popping, warping, and misalignment.
• Addressed several reported instances of Enzo or NPCs being stuck in animation states.
• Addressed several reported instances of incorrect animations playing during conversations.
• Various fixes and improvements to Animation.

Localization

• Addressed the “Protection Agreement” note which contained repeated words.
• Addressed reported inconsistent translations across all languages.

Platform Specific

PlayStation 5

• Various stability improvements when playing on the PlayStation 5.

Xbox Series X|S

• Various stability improvements when playing on the Xbox Series X.
• Various visual and stability improvements when playing on the Xbox Series S.

Steam

• Addressed a reported issue causing DLSS Frame Generation to randomly stop functioning during gameplay, requiring a game restart.
• Various stability and performance improvements on the PC version.

If you're having trouble running Mafia: The Old Country, try these potential solutions.

If you're looking for ways to improve your PC's performance in Mafia: The Old Country, below are some potential solutions and basic info that may address issues you've encountered. For immediate assistance, you can also contact 2K Support here.

Update your graphics drivers to the latest version:

If you're running into performances issues or graphical glitches, please try updating the drivers for your chosen graphics card:

• NVIDIA RTX drivers
• AMD Radeon drivers
• Intel drivers

Update your BIOS to the latest version:

If you own a 13th or 14th gen Intel CPU, make sure your BIOS is updated to the latest version as crashes can happen on heavy loads like shader compilation. Consult your motherboard manual for instructions on how to update your BIOS.

If you're encountering a black screen at startup:

If you encounter a black screen upon first startup, this is likely a one-time issue that should resolve itself after roughly 12-15 seconds.

Try adjusting your Render Resolution:

You can try reducing your Render Resolution in the Graphics section of the Settings menu to ease the load on your graphics card. Lowering it to 75-80%, for example, should make a noticeable difference to framerate without affecting the fidelity of the visuals in a significant way, especially when playing on a 4K monitor.

Try tweaking your Upscaling options:

In the Graphics section of the Settings menu, try enabling DLSS, FSR, or XeSS depending on your graphics card manufacturer (NVIDIA, AMD, or Intel respectively). You may get better performance than the default Unreal TSR setting.

In the Graphics section of the Settings menu, you can adjust the Upscaling Mode, which has these options: Performance - High, Performance, Balanced, Quality, Quality - High, Native. Setting your Upscaling Mode to a lower value may help you maintain a higher framerate.

Try enabling Frame Generation:

If you have supported hardware, you will see an option for turning Frame Generation "On" via the the Graphics section of the Settings menu. Frame Generation can help you maintain a higher framerate.

Double-check the Minimum PC Hardware requirements:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• Requires SSD
• OS: Windows 10 / 11
• Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X / Intel Core i7-9700K
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
• Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT / NVIDIA RTX 2070
• Video Memory: 8 GB
• DirectX: Version 12
• Storage: 55 GB available space

As a reminder, these Minimum specs will run Mafia: The Old Country with solid performance on older PC hardware.

Target resolution and graphics settings

• Screen Mode: Borderless Fullscreen
• Render Resolution: 1920x1080
• Graphics Quality Preset: Medium
• Anti-Aliasing & Upscaling: Unreal TSR - Balanced

Reported Intel CPU Issues

We have been investigating reported issues of crash on boot and we believe a large percentage are connected to a known issue with 13th and 14th-gen Intel CPUs including, but not limited to:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700K

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700KF

Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K

Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900KF

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700K

Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KIf you've experienced issues with this hardware, please refer to Intel's Customer Support for more details and assistance.

Crash Report

Intel Community Support

Reach out to 2K Support if these solutions aren't working:

For any issues not addressed by the tips and info above, visit the 2K Support site for Mafia: The Old Country where you can submit a request for help directly. For new requests, including a dxdiag.txt file may help 2K Support identify and resolve the matter more quickly. Here's how to get a dxdiag.txt file:

1. Click on the Start Menu in Windows 10 or 11
2. Type "dxdiag" and launch the DxDiag application
3. From the DxDiag application, click on the "Save all information" button to create a dxdiag.txt file.

💡 Reminder that you can adjust the framerate of your cinematics:

By default, cinematics are capped at 30FPS, but if your hardware can support it, you have the option to adjust cinematics FPS in the Graphics settings to 60FPS or Uncapped.

If you notice slowdowns or stuttering during transitions to/from cinematics, try setting your cinematics framerate to unlimited and set your Upscaling to DLSS, FSR or XeSS (according to your Graphics Card model) instead of Unreal TSR.

For more info, check out these recent Mafia: The Old Country Steam posts:

Mafia: The Old Country PC Specs & Features

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