Update your video card drivers, and directX. Now fully exit the game, restart the game and hope that it saved your changes.Use the arrow keys or mouse to set the resolution up to 1024×768 (or whatever your monitor can handle), press Esc, press Enter to accept, wait for screen change and press Enter to accept again. If you did everything right then you should now see the Video Options menu on screen.Press Esc, wait for a second and press Enter, wait 5 more seconds and press Enter again. You are going to change the Resolution to 640×480.Press Down arrow 1 time, then hold down the Left arrow until the click sounds stop. (you should hear click sounds as you navigate the menus). Another video will play, press Esc again.Listen for the nVidia logo to start and press Esc.Start up the Mafia 2 and then DON’T TOUCH the mouse again until the monitor problem is fixed and follow these steps. It happens because of the video settings, and you need to follow the steps below to get it to work. You can hear the game sound and game content loading, but can’t get to display the video.
When the game loads, the monitor stays black with the floating box saying “mode not supported”. Follow the guide, I posted earlier for Mafia 2 PhysX Fix.ĥ# Start Up Black Screen and Mode not supported Error You can remove the apex clothing simulation effects from the game to increase the frame rates and overall game performance. You can change it in the game options menu of the game. If you are facing certain graphic glitches, you can resolve this by running the game windowed. If you are seeing black lines in certain parts of the game during different missions, make sure your video card is not overheated.Verify and check the temperature of your video card and system using any system monitor tool.
You can download and install them from here.
You need to install nVidia 3D vision drivers on top of your video card drivers. If you are facing issues like un-readable text and black textures when you try to play Mafia 2 using 3D vision.
You can see for different workarounds in the guide below that may solve your issue. But not before you resolve tons of game breaking errors, random freezes and crashes.Įspecially the price of eye candy of PhysX, which will make the game performance frustrating for ATI users and people with low ended or average PC’s. Immerse yourself into the bottom to top by making your name in the streets of cold and unforgiving city.