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  1. praisehowie
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    I don't usually comment on mods, but since everybody here seems to just be fuckin complaining... THANK YOU. I've been looking for something to make this game not look disgusting for so long. Reshade isn't even a bandaid fix, it does NOTHING to get rid of what this mod targets. The game looks like s#*! no matter what you do unless you install this mod. Thanks again man. 
    1. rocketman1331
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      Reshade doesn't do much because it's a post processing filter. It can't disable blur, chromatic aberrations or ghosting, it simply takes an already blurry frame and tries to photoshop the blur out of it. This mod disables the graphical effects that cause blur in the first place, that's why the game looks so sharp. But unfortunately many modern games (Mafia 3 included) rely on blur to render other effects like clouds or hair, and removing it also breaks those effects, that's why some people complain. But I don't mind criticism and questions, that's what the comments are for.
      Anyway, thanks for the kind words.
    2. praisehowie
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      Yeah, the clouds, reflections, etc. are all just the consequences of Hangar 13's methods I guess. I'm running it in 4K and it looks genuinely fantastic once you dial it in however. Your work is appreciated! 
  2. Sicksadworld
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    This mod makes lighting look awful, clouds look bad, and I tried deleting the file to get some fog back but all deleting that file does is make some godawful semi-transparent shader to constantly appear in the background.

    I really wish I could use this mod, but imo it's just better to put a reshade with some sharpening on and be done with it.
    1. rocketman1331
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      Make sure you followed the installation/deletion instructions clearly. Also make sure you are using a clean installation of the game to remove the possibility of conflicts with other mods. The mod does not change the lighting in any way, it simply removes some blurry post-processing effects which are a little too intense in the original Mafia 3 (Temporal Antialiasing, Fog, Color Correction, Chromatic Aberrations and Bloom). The game should obviously look different compared to the original. The only graphical artifacts that should be visible are broken cloud shader (clouds rely on TAA, and with it disabled they look like a bunch of flat planes stacked on top of each other) and some occasional dithering (also hidden by TAA by default). The mod is also configurable, you don't have to disable all the effects at once. If you want to keep some of them, install the mod normally first and then check "Restoring removed effects" part of the mod description page (Pay attention to what what files you are removing. It's easy to get confused, because the file names look like random numbers).

      Also if you want to just use reshade instead you can do it, but keep in mind that reshade is just another post-processing filter added on top of the game's already intense post-processing. While reshade can make the game look a little sharper, it will not fix the ghosting artifacts (blur in motion), which are mostly created by TAA. So if you want to use reshade, set TAA to Low in the game settings, this will minimize ghosting. Alternatively use can try to reinstall the mod and then restore all the removed effects except the TAA. This will remove most of the blur/ghosting, but keep the original color correction, fog, chromatic aberrations and bloom (clouds will still look weird).
  3. RayneLawliet
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    Not sure what's causing it, but after installing this I'm noticing a flicker every few seconds messing with the lighting/reflections. It's kind of odd.

    Edit: It seems reflections are no longer updating live. It seems that every couple seconds reflections switch. Trying to figure out if it's the exe or postprocessing file, because I was trying to use just those two.

    Edit2: Seems to be the postprocessing file. Shame, I was really hoping for color correction. Otherwise, great mod. Thank you!
    1. rocketman1331
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      That's just how Mafia 3 reflections work, they are not real time. They update every few frames if you change the camera angle too much. Try moving the camera 180 degrees while in a stationary car, the reflections won't be updating in real time as you move the camera. But then few frames after you stop moving the camera, the game will update them. It works like this even without any mods, it's just harder to see with all the postprocessing the game has by default.

      Reflections also render at half resolution, meaning that if you play the game in 4k (3840x2160) the reflections will be in 1080p (1920x1080).
      They always have 4 times less pixels than the rest of the game.
    2. ratatu468
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      I gues there is no way of changing the update rate or resolution for reflections right? maybe porting mafia de code for them 
    3. rocketman1331
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      No easy way known to me, sorry
  4. punkdezappa
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    How to fix them ugly clouds
    1. rocketman1331
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      You can't. They depend on TAA blur and dithering to work properly.
  5. asusmak
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    windows 24h2, game doesn't launch
    On windows 10 22h2 works fine (and on win 11 22h2 too, as i remember)
  6. Sashimi41
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    Unfortunately the 4k fix for the AA makes the fps terrible and the game very unplayable :(
    As I only have a mid Graphic card.
  7. KhanBBQ
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    How about using ReShades SMAA and/or FXAA, instead of supersampling? Gonna try that
    1. rocketman1331
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      It doesn't work as well. Also playing at 4k resolution is recommended for better reflections, not AA (because reflections render at half resolution). Supersampling is something you get as a bonus.
    2. realmister
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      Problem is, not every gpu will handle this game at 4K very well. Also my reso is 3440x1440, which ultrawide resolution would you recommend?
    3. rocketman1331
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      That's why its a workaround and not a full solution. But also Mafia 3 is a game from 2016, so many people should be able to run it pretty well.
    4. realmister
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      Well, since I already run the game at a high reso, even my 6750XT have difficulties to render more without tanking the fps more than I can live with, also I think the game looks just too ugly with this no-TAA hack. All your other modifications are very good so I'm keeping them. As for the AA I set it low in game and then I inject MLAA with AMD drivers plus 80% sharpening to do away with the residual TAA blurriness. Game looking pretty good now.
    5. rocketman1331
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      yeah unfortunately disabling the TAA completely makes the game look pixelated. You can try doubling your screen res instead of playing in 4k: so if your monitor resolution is let's say 100x100 set the game resolution to 200x200. If you play at lower resolution, doubling it will still be less than 4k, this will still give you SSAA and save some fps. Also keep in mind that TAA creates ghosting artifacts on moving objects (you can see where objects were in previous frames) not just the blur. Also don't forget about the reflections, they are rendered at half the resolution, so if you play at a lower resolution the reflections will be even lower and will look bad. So increasing the resolution to double of your monitor fixes most of these problems, but it comes at a cost of lower fps.
  8. stickstuf
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    Not working! Done everything step by step and it just ruined the game. Time wasted fore nothing.
    1. rocketman1331
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      Hello. I just reinstalled the game and the mod and it works perfectly. Make sure you installed everything properly and that you don't have any other conflicting mods.
    2. XXLpeanuts
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      Ruined the game how, not elaborating there is just harming yourself. This mod does remove TAA and replaces it with an far inferior method of AA, fxaa via reshade, but there is a way to restore TAA so the game is not ruined anymore (jaggy edges everywhere, visual bugs because the engine relies on taa to render correctly).
  9. Mounrayt
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    Привет, после установки этого мода, у меня фризит игра, в любом разрешении, fps нормальный, микро фризы постоянно и при 80 и при 140 fps. Как то можно исправить ? Фризы не очень сильные, но они не прекращаются, постоянно дёргается каждые пол секунды примерно. 
    Спасибо за мод. Жаль, что разработчики выпускают игру, которую приходится дорабатывать модерам
    1. Mounrayt
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      Вернул оригинальный файл Mafia3DefinitiveEdition.exe и всё, фризы прекратились, не знаю в чём проблема
    2. rocketman1331
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      Это не фризы, так работает дефолтный антиалиасинг, мод должен это убирать если установлен правильно. Устанавливаешь на чистую версию без других модов? Стим или GOG?

      Сейчас скачиваю игру из стима, может ее обновили и мод перестал работать. Пока перечитай инструкцию внимательно и переустанови еще раз.
    3. Mounrayt
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      Да, всё сделал строго по инструкции, единственное отличие я разрешение выбрал не в конфиг файле, а в настройках игры. Потому, что не смог найти папку с этим конфигом, у меня есть мафия дефенетив эдишн, и мафия 2 дефенетив эдишн, а мафии 3 нету 
    4. rocketman1331
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      Установил на чистую мафию 3 из стима, все работает идеально даже в разрешении 4к, без фризов.

      Еще раз на всякий случай:
      1. Открываем архив и копируем все файлы из папки Mafia III в архиве в папку с игрой с заменой файлов.
      2. Копируем Mafia3DefinitiveEdition.exe из папки \exe\Steam или \exe\GOG\ в папку с игрой, выбираем свою версию: стим или гог.
      3. Установку делать на чистую игру без других модов, удаленных/измененных файлов

      ПС: Mafia3DefinitiveEdition.exe отключает мыльный антиальясинг (TAA), можно без него, но тогда игра будет мыльной, особенно движущиеся обьекты. Все остальные эффекты будут работать. Если хочеть играть со стандартным ехе, то удали /Mafia III/ShaderFixes/4cc4de49ffb4a90e-ps_replace.txt и /Mafia III/ShaderFixes/b863862e9b29f4f2-ps_replace.txt
      ППС: Как выглядят фризы? Поже на мерцание, картинка двигается влево-вправо несколько раз в секунду? 
    5. Mounrayt
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      Нет, не мерцание, это фризы, замерание картинки, постоянно каждую секунду, едет машина рывками 
    6. Mounrayt
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      Так как я уже избавился от фризов, можешь забить на это. Не знаю почему у меня это не работает, я сделал всё по инструкции. Избавился от фризов, возвращением оригинального Mafia3DefinitiveEdition.exe 
    7. rocketman1331
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      ОК, но на последок можешь попробовать еще несколько вещей:
      1. попробуй выставить другие настройки антиалиасинга в игре, поставь на лоу. И попробуй поставить разрешение не больше чем х2 разрешения твоего монитора, тоесть если разрешение у тебя условно 100х100, поставь не больше 200х200. Файл с настройками находится в C:\Users\ твое имя пользователя \AppData\Local\2K Games\Mafia III\Saves\videoconfig.cfg. (Для того чтобы увидеть папку AppData нужно включить отображение скрытых файлов)
      2. Если у тебя процессор со вствроенной видеокартой переключи на основную. Проверь что настройки питания и в виндовсе и для видеокарты стоят на "Максимальная производительность"
      3. Проверь что у тебя хватает видеопямяти/оперативки, а процессор не загружен на 100%, высокие настройки требуют больше памяти.
      4. Проверь что у тебя не работает ничего что загружает процессор/видеокарту параллельно с игрой, например майнинг. Отключи все кроме игры.
      5. Проверь файлы игры в стиме, может ты установил какой-то мод и забыл, пускай стим перекачает измененные файлы.
      6. Проверь что к игре не подключенно никакого дополнительного софта, например CheatEngine или решейд.
      7. Обнови драйвер видеокарты, поставь игровую версию если у тебя стоит студийная.

      ПС: Можно играть и с оригинальным Mafia3DefinitiveEdition.exe, но весь смыл мода как раз в том чтобы убрать мыло. Но в любом случае, я скачал чистую игру и установил мод и все работает, и до этого никто не жаловаля, так что проблема скорее всего не в самом моде, а в совместимости твоего компа с модом, может где-то какие-то настройки не так выставлены и тд.
  10. Kaycred
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    i have a QHD monitor which makes a 2050x2056 ( may be off a few digits) resolution , do you think that would be ok instead of that 4k resolution?
    (edited) it looked good at that resolution i mentioned but what does this exe file do? i had it in and then took it out and it still looked the same.
    1. rocketman1331
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      exe file removes TAA, which in turn removes blur and ghosting artifacts. You can play at any resolution you like, exe file doesn't care about the resolution. Also don't forget that the reflections are rendered at half resolution, so it's best to play at higher resolutions if you want better reflections. Higher resolutions also help fix the pixelated look of the game (now that the TAA is gone the game will look pixelated at lower resolutions) and if you set the resolution to something higher than your monitor's native resolution it effectively gives you SSAA, a very good but very expensive anti-aliasing method.
    2. Kaycred
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      i did what you said and i love the 4k much better.
      i took motion blur off and on my amnd adrenaline edition, i put my sharpness up and it looks beautiful, thank you so much for this.
    3. rocketman1331
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      you're welcome
    4. Kaycred
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      my game used to skip alot when going at fast speeds but when i changed to 4k it seemed to be running way better with no skipping at any speed.
      idk its wierd it seemed to fix the game.