Mafia III

Mafia III

Developers
	Hangar 13
	2K Czech
	Blind Squirrel Games
Definitive Edition	Red Kite Games
macOS (OS X)	Aspyr Media
Publishers
	2K Games
OS X	Aspyr Media
Engines
	Illusion Engine
Release dates
Windows	October 7, 2016
macOS (OS X)	May 11, 2017
Reception
Metacritic	62
OpenCritic	66
IGDB	68
Taxonomy
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Open world, Shooter
Vehicles	Automobile
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary, North America
Series	Mafia

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

Mafia III is a singleplayer third-person action, shooter game in the Mafia series. The game is a sequel to Mafia II, and is made by Hangar 13 and published by 2K Games.

Mafia III was rebranded as Mafia III: Definitive Edition on May 19, 2020 on Steam, granting all previously available DLC.

General information

PC Report

Official forums

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Definitive Edition. Comes on 6 DVDs.
Publisher website		Definitive Edition.
Amazon.com		Definitive Edition.
Amazon.co.uk		Definitive Edition.
Epic Games Store		Definitive Edition.
GOG.com		Standard Edition. Deluxe Edition also available.
Green Man Gaming		Definitive Edition.
Humble Store		Definitive Edition.
Mac App Store
Steam		Definitive Edition

Version differences

Digital Deluxe is a complete edition with all DLC.

Despite being available for Mac, most of the DLCs included in the Deluxe Edition are not playable.

Demo

A demo is available (it is not patched - performance will be lower).^{[citation needed]}

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Season Pass
Judge, Jury and Executioner Weapons Pack	Free.
Family Kick-Back Pack
Faster, Baby!
Stones Unturned
Sign of the Times

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
Cosmetic	Chicago Outfit Pack is offered as a pre-order bonus for Mafia II: Definitive Edition and Mafia III: Definitive Edition when pre-ordering Mafia: Definitive Edition. Vito’s Outfit and Car is offered for owners of Mafia II: Definitive Edition
Time-limited	Chicago Outfit Pack can only be unlocked by pre-ordering Mafia: Definitive Edition.

Essential improvements

Skip launcher

Change filenames
Go to <path-to-game>. Rename launcher.exe to something else (e.g. launcher2.exe). Rename mafia3.exe to launcher.exe.

Game data

In-game game settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\2K Games\Mafia III\Data\<user-id>\profiles\temporaryprofile\ %LOCALAPPDATA%\2K Games\Mafia III\Saves\videoconfig.cfg
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/360430/pfx/

Editing configuration files manually makes them corrupted upon game launch.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\2K Games\Mafia III\Data\<user-id>\gamesaves\default\aslot\*.sav
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/360430/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game video settings.

Launcher video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		HUD is centered for 16:9. You might have to start the game at a 16:9 resolution and then scale to a wider one to have the HUD to display correct.
4K Ultra HD		UI does not scale well in 4K.[citation needed]
Field of view (FOV)		40-90°
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		TAA. Setting the AA option to High results in heavy blurring of the image. See Blur and orange tint removal to avoid the problem.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Choice of 30, 60, or unlimited FPS. Also see Run the game at screen refresh rate in fullscreen. FMVs are encoded at 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		HDR on consoles only

Input

In-game controls settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Default bindings bind multiple actions to single keys. This cannot be done if using custom bindings.
Mouse acceleration		Slight negative acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		A few gameplay menus can only be navigated with the arrow keys.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Two presets available.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers		No native support, see the glossary page for workarounds.
DualShock button prompts		Download PlayStation Icons from NexusMods.
Light bar support
Connection modes	Wired, V1

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Can be disabled.
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Possible but can cause performance issues.

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

• 

  In-game remapping settings.

• 

  In-game controller preset settings.

Audio

In-game audio settings.

In-game screenshot to illustrate the subtitles.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Dialogue, SFX and Cinematics.
Surround sound		5.1
Subtitles		Speaker names displayed. Radio announcements and NPC chatter outside of missions not subtitled.
Closed captions		Only during subtitled dialogues.
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes	Native	Notes
vorpX		Z3D Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.

Issues unresolved

Startup

Game frequently will not launch from Steam Launcher for a large number of players. No known work-around other than to continue clicking Play repeatedly until game starts.

Impossible to disable controller aim assistance

Game supports three different levels of aim assistance when playing with a controller: High, Low and Off. High and Low work as intended (high snaps towards the nearest target, low slows down crosshairs when near an enemy), but Off behaves exactly the same as Low. This also happens on consoles.

Issues fixed

Bypass 2K launcher

There have been reports that the 2K launcher introduced with the Definitive Edition can cause performance or startup problems.

Use the "<path-to-game>\Mafia3DefinitiveEdition.exe" %command% command line argument

Launch the game directly via <path-to-game>\Mafia3DefinitiveEdition.exe

See Skip launcher

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 your monitor.

Run at default monitor refresh rate with this Mafia III ReShade custom build
Download ReShade Mafia III fixes (dxgi.dll). Copy the file to the installation folder. Notes When going fullscreen, the game will run at whatever refresh rate you currently have by default. This supports anything ReShade supports.

Override refresh rate with 3Dmigoto
Download 3Dmigoto Copy the files in the x64 folder to the installation folder. Open d3dx.ini. Change ;refresh_rate=60 to the desired value, and remove the semicolon (e.g. refresh_rate=144). Change hunting=1 to ;hunting=1 by adding a semicolon. Save the changes and close the file. Notes It can be setup to use ReShade as a proxy.

Override refresh rate with Special K
It often crashes on startup, alt-tab and alt-enter. It's convoluted to setup if also using ReShade.

Remove support for 60Hz on your monitor
Download CRU and delete all other resolutions except the one with the refresh rate you want to play at.

Force borderless windowed
Force the game to run in a borderless window. See glossary.

Disable fullscreen optimizations
Navigate to the root directory of the game and locate Mafia3DefinitiveEdition.exe. Right click the exe file and choose Properties. Select the Compatibility tab, and check Disable fullscreen optimizations. Hit apply and the game will now run at your monitor's native refresh rate.

Random crashes

Change the frame rate cap[citation needed]
Change the frame rate cap from Unlimited to 30 or 60 FPS

Failure to launch: vcruntime140.dll missing

Install Visual C++ Redistributable[citation needed]
Install Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015.

Blur and orange tint removal

The game has a strong orange tint and a blurring filter applied to it, this mod removes both
Install Reshade (select DirectX 11 and make sure you download the standard shaders) Apply this Reshade Preset

Anti-aliasing
Changing anti-aliasing setting to Low reduces blurring

Download and install the No color grading mod from NexusMods

Controller sensitivity too high

Reduce mouse sensitivity
Reduce both the controller and mouse sensitivity under Options -> Controls in the Pause menu.

Disable the Steam overlay
Right-click the game in your Steam library. Click Properties. Un-tick Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game. Click the Close button.

No story missions available

Upon finishing a story mission, the next one may not appear.

Restart the game

Nvidia GPUs cannot find the appropriate profile for the Definitive Edition

This may cause worse performance and visual glitches.

Rename the game executable to mafia3.exe

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11
Metal support

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Audio	Wwise
Interface	Scaleform
Cutscenes	Bink Video

Modifications

• Toggle Hud

• Minimal Hud

• Manual transmission

• Vehicle Controls

• Play only main missions!/No side missions at all - Many people do not like Mafia III because of the repetitive side missions through all the game. It will allow you to play only the main/story missions in the game.

• No grinding - Reduces the amount of damage needed to advance to the next mission.

• No Enemy Blips Download - Removes the enemy blips from the minimap.

• Difficulty Tweaks Download - Player takes 2x damage on hard difficulty. All services cost money now. Rebalanced store robbery rewards. Rebalanced weapon upgrades. Recommended using with no enemy blips mod.

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-2500K AMD FX-8120	Intel Core i7-3770 AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	6 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	50 GB
Video card (GPU)	AMD Radeon HD 7870 Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2 GB of VRAM	AMD Radeon R9 290X Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 4 GB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX compatible

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Windows 8 users may need additional Windows Update files.

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.12.4
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5 3.2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	50 GB
Video card (GPU)	AMD Radeon R9 M290X 2 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Nvidia and Intel video cards are officially unsupported on macOS.