Mafia: Definitive Edition

This page is for the remake of Mafia. For the original game, see Mafia.

Mafia: Definitive Edition

Developers
	Hangar 13
	Climax Studios
	Red Kite Games
Publishers
	2K Games
Engines
	Fusion Engine
Release dates
Windows	September 25, 2020
Reception
Metacritic	79
OpenCritic	78
IGDB	75
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	Cosmetic, Time-limited, Unlock
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Open world, Shooter
Vehicles	Automobile, Motorcycle
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Interwar, North America
Series	Mafia

Mafia
Mafia	2002
Mafia II	2010
Mafia III	2016
Mafia II: Definitive Edition	2020
Mafia: Definitive Edition	2020

Mafia: Definitive Edition is a singleplayer third-person action game in the Mafia series. The game is a full remake of the 2002 Mafia game that contains new gameplay, script, cutscenes and features, and is remade by Hangar 13 and published by 2K Games

The release date of the game was first set to August 28, 2020, later moved to September 25. Pre-ordering Mafia: Definitive Edition granted an exclusive gun, skin and a car for the game, as well as skins for Mafia II: Definitive Edition and Mafia III: Definitive Edition.

Owning either Mafia II: Definitive Edition or Mafia III: Definitive Edition unlocks an outfit and a car inspired by the protagonists of the games.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store
GamersGate
GOG.com		Does not include the bonus content from the 2K Account benefit, due to the removal of its DRM.
Green Man Gaming
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store		Choice between Epic Games or Steam key.
Steam

Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM was removed on September 23, 2021.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
Cosmetic	Chicago Outfit Pack is offered as a pre-order bonus which unlocks a car, outfit, gun in Mafia: Definitive Edition and an exclusive skin in Mafia II: Definitive Edition and Mafia III: Definitive Edition. Lincoln's Outfit and Car is offered for owners of Mafia III: Definitive Edition. Vito’s Outfit and Car is offered for owners of Mafia II: Definitive Edition. Black Cats Motorcycle Pack is given to players who link their Mafia: Definitive Edition game to a valid 2K account.
Time-limited	Chicago Outfit Pack could only be unlocked by pre-ordering Mafia: Definitive Edition.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use a modified _logo_2k_h13_bullet.bik file
Download this file. Paste the sds_retail folder into <path-to-game>, replacing the file when prompted. The audio from the intro will still play.

Patch the game with hex edit

Open mafiadefinitiveedition.exe with a hex editor such as HxD. Search for the following bytes: 43 5F 53 70 6C 61 73 68 53 63 72 65 65 6E 73 53 74 61 74 65 00 00 00 00 2F 76 69 64 65 6F 2F 5F 6C 6F 67 6F 5F 32 6B 5F 68 31 33 5F 62 75 6C 6C 65 74 2E 62 69 6B 00 00 49 6E 74 72 6F 5F 4C 6F 67 6F And replace them with 0's, so basically: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 (Optional) Delete _logo_2k_h13_bullet.bik from <path-to-game>\sds_retail\video With this method, the audio from the intro won't play.

Skip launcher

Use the "mafiadefinitiveedition" %command% command line argument on Steam.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Mafia Definitive Edition\
GOG.com	<path-to-game>\My Games\Mafia Definitive Edition\Saves\profiles\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1030840/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Mafia Definitive Edition\Data\<user-id>\gamesaves\
GOG.com	<path-to-game>\user\Data\Saves\gamesaves\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1030840/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Display settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		Hor+ gameplay, 16:9 pillarboxed cutscenes and loading screens. HUD is always spanned.
Ultra-widescreen		Hor+ gameplay, pillarboxed cutscenes and loading screens. Use Mafia: Definitive Edition Ultrawide Cutscenes Fix for proper Hor+ cutscene support.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		From 40 to 90.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Exclusive fullscreen also supported.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Low, Medium, and High options.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Toggle works only in fullscreen mode. Windowed/Borderless Windowed Fullscreen use BitBlt to update content of the window and as such is always using V-sync.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		See Run the game at screen refresh rate in fullscreen.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		AutoHDR works on Windows 11. On Windows 10, having HDR enabled might result in the game being stuck on a black screen.

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  Default FOV of 65 at 16:9

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  Default FOV of 65 at 21:9

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  Default FOV of 65 at 48:9

Film grain

Remove files that are responsible for film grain effect
Go to the <path-to-game>\edit\maps\engine. Delete or move bluenoise folder and color_grain.dds.

Input

Controls settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Lockpicking command cannot be remapped away from V. Extended Mouse buttons can be remapped with manual changes to the gameinputmodule.pf file.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		From 0.1 to 10.0.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Referred to as "Look Inversion". Setting also affects controller input.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Only two presets available.
Controller sensitivity		From 0.1 to 10.0.
Controller Y-axis inversion		Referred to as "Look Inversion". Setting also affects mouse input.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		Native support.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers		The Steam version relies on Steam Input to provide controller support, so controller configuration support must be enabled for the type of controller being used. If in-game prompts appear as empty squares, disable the steam overlay.
DualShock button prompts		Use PlayStation Icons mod
Light bar support
Connection modes	Wired, wireless

Generic/other controllers		The Steam version relies on Steam Input to provide controller support, so controller configuration support must be enabled for the type of controller being used.
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Steam Input
Steam Input API support
Official controller preset(s)
Steam Controller button prompts

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  Keybinding options

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  Controller preset 1

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  Controller preset 2

Map Extended Mouse Buttons

The game UI does not allow a user to map any controls to Mouse 4 (Back Button) and Mouse 5 (Forward Button).

This fix can be used to map other keys if the m_ControlElement, m_DeviceType pair for the key is discovered.

Manually edit game input files

Open the gameinputmodule.pf located under %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Mafia Definitive Edition\Data\<user-id>\profiles\temporaryprofile\gameinputmodule.pf in a text editor such as Notepad++. Navigate to the desired controls by finding the desired m_Control tag and locating its sibling m_Primary's a few lines above. Modify the m_Primary's m_ControlElement value to 403 for Mouse 4 or 404 for Mouse 5. Modify the m_Primary's m_DeviceType value to 1. Save and close gameinputmodule.pf and re-open the file in HxD or another hex editor. Scroll to the bottom of the file in HxD and delete the last 4 bytes of the file. (Accept the warning about resizing the file from HxD). Calculate the CRC-32 checksum of the resulting file. In HxD, navigate to Analysis > Checksums.. and select CRC-32 as the algorithm and press OK. Insert the CRC-32 checksum from the results pane into the file by manually typing the bytes in reverse order. Example: If the CRC-32 result is B05A4BA1, then type in A1 4B 5A B0. Save the file. Notes The Controls UI in-game changes multiple m_Control's for certain listed actions suche as "Use". A quick method to determine which m_Control's map to the UI's action: Backup the gameinputmodule.pf file to and rename to gameinputmodule.pf.old. In-game, remap the action to a spare key and quit the game. Compare gameinputmodule.pf.old and gameinputmodule.pf files using a differencing tool such as the Compare plugin in Notepad++. Mapping controls to Mouse 4 or Mouse 5 will cause the UI no longer display the hovering suggestion for that action as the game does not have an icon to represent that button. You can also use this Python script to update the CRC-32 checksum.

Audio

Audio settings

Game settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, Music, Dialogue, SFX, and Cinematics.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio		Cutscenes are interlaced with licensed music

Language settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
French
German
Hungarian				Fan translation, download.
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Issues fixed

Run the game at screen refresh rate in fullscreen

The game ignores Windows settings and forces 60 Hz while in fullscreen as long as it's supported by the monitor.

Run at default monitor refresh rate with this Mafia: Definitive Edition ReShade custom build
Download ReShade Mafia fullscreen fix (dxgi.dll). Copy the file to the installation folder. Notes When going fullscreen, the game will run at the currently set default refresh rate. Supports every other ReShade feature.

Run at default monitor refresh rate using W4RH4WK's Sekiro Refresh Rate Fix
Download Sekiro Refresh Rate Fix DLLs. Unpack the files to the installation folder. Notes When going fullscreen, the game will run at the currently set default refresh rate.

Add Windows 7 Support (Error: xinput1_4.dll missing)

The game was compiled to use most modern xinput1_4.dll, which is not available for Windows 7. However, it's still possible to use earlier version of XInput library as a workaround.

Windows 7 workaround
Navigate to C:\Windows\System32 and copy xinput1_3.dll to a different directory. Rename newly copied xinput1_3.dll to xinput1_4.dll. Move newly renamed xinput1_4.dll to <path-to-game>\pc.

Broken cloth physics when limiting frame rate with external tools

Capping the frame rate externally breaks cloth physics.

Manually edit video profile files

Open the profile_videosettings.pf located under %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Mafia Definitive Edition\Data\<user-id>\profiles\temporaryprofile\profile_videosettings.pf in a text editor such as Notepad++. Modify the <m_FPS>2</m_FPS> value to <m_FPS>0</m_FPS> for a 30 FPS lock. Save and close profile_videosettings.pf and re-open the file in HxD or another hex editor. Scroll to the bottom of the file in HxD and delete the last 4 bytes of the file. (Accept the warning about resizing the file from HxD). Calculate the CRC-32 checksum of the resulting file. In HxD, navigate to Analysis > Checksums.. and select CRC-32 as the algorithm and press OK. Insert the CRC-32 checksum from the results pane into the file by manually typing the bytes in reverse order. Example: If the CRC-32 result is B05A4BA1, then type in A1 4B 5A B0. Save the file. Notes Altering video settings from the in-game menu will reset the default value. Set the file to read only (right click, Properties, Read-only, under attributes) to prevent this.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Audio	Wwise
Cutscenes	Bink Video	2020.06.2

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-2550K 3.4 GHz AMD FX-8120 3.1 GHz	Intel Core i7-3770 3.4 GHz AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	6 GB	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	50 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon HD 7870 DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 AMD Radeon RX 5700

A 64-bit operating system is required.