2K and Hangar 13’s upcoming action-adventure game, Mafia: The Old Country, is now available for PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs and the Steam Deck.
Before we delve into the best settings for the PC version of Mafia: The Old Country, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.
Mafia: The Old Country Best Settings For PC
The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to further tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.
GRAPHICS
- Screen Mode: Borderless Fullscreen
- Render Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- V-Sync: Off on a VRR/G-sync display, On otherwise
- Gameplay Frame Rate: Unlimited on a VRR/G-sync display, otherwise set according to preferred target frame rate
- Cinematic Frame Rate: 30 fps
- Anti-Aliasing & Upscaling: NVIDIA DLSS
- Upscaling Mode: Quality
- Motion Blur: Off
- Global Illumination: High
- Shadows: Medium
- Reflections: Low
- View Distance: Medium
- Textures: Epic
- Foliage: High
- Effects: Medium
- Post Processing: Medium
How Does Mafia: The Old Country Run On Steam Deck?
GRAPHICS
- Screen Mode: Borderless Fullscreen
- Render Resolution: 1280 x 800
- V-Sync: On
- Gameplay Frame Rate: Unlimited
- Cinematic Frame Rate: 30 fps
- Anti-Aliasing & Upscaling: Intel XeSS
- Upscaling Mode: Performance – High
- Motion Blur: Off
- Global Illumination: High
- Shadows: Medium
- Reflections: Low
- View Distance: Near
- Textures: Low
- Foliage: Low
- Effects: Low
- Post Processing: Medium
As seen in the above video, Mafia: The Old Country often runs somewhere in the 10 fps to 20 fps range, which is essentially unplayable performance. As such, we don’t recommend playing the game on Valve’s handheld device.
