Vinnie chase mission bugged.

[Blacksmyth Zephlyn]

I don't know about anyone else but for some reason the level when you're chasing Gognitti through the rooftops, the level is so bugged for me.
It's not broken to the point where it's unplayable but I'll give you some examples as to what's been going on.

1:While Vinnie is running from Max before he jumps on the train his model just stops but continues his running animation as if something blocks him.

FIX: I keep pressing the menu button every time to continue his movement and it works.

2: While Vinnie is jumping across the rooftops in slow-motion, for some reason his model actually misses the jump and you can see him falling. Thankfully the game doesn't recognize this and continues as if that never happened but it's still weird to see.

FIX: N/A

3: While Max is running through the rooftops, before he is able to get into the first building a police helicopter is supposed to spot him and call out to stop Max. I only know this because I've played Max Payne before and for some reason it's not playing anymore when I had to recently buy this game again. Not a big issue but still a bug.

FIX: N/A

4: While running down the stairs in the first building I am actually able to see Vinnie's character model just standing on the bottom part of the stairs not running away. You can shoot at him but it won't do anything so I just run past him and then the sequence plays with Vinnie running down the stairs telling his goons at the bottom to go after Max. What makes it even more weird is that this is supposed to be a cutscene and I am somehow able to move Max during the cutscene and I shouldn't be at the bottom of the stairs where the goons are. At this point I knew for sure that this had to be a bugged level and it led to some very cheap deaths especially when I went through it on the hardest difficulty.

FIX: While the cutscene plays where Vinnie yells at his goons to go up the stairs to kill Max, I am able to move Max a bit back up the stairs but it still leads me to a few cheap deaths because I can't do anything until the camera switches back to Max but at this point I'm unfairly killed. I just redo this sequence over and over again until the enemy AI becomes terrible shots and I'm able to kill them once the camera let's me play as Max again.


There are a few more bugs I'm getting with this game but most of them have been stated already in the forums. The reason I wanted to post this was to see if anyone else is getting these bugs in their game or if it was just to me and that I could just delete and reinstall my game and that it would work again. But then again with that infamous sound bug I would have to download the patch and configure it again. I just don't really want to do something if it's just gonna waiste my time. Like I said, these bugs don't make the game unplayable for me but they are still annoying and make me just want to buy a console version of the game and set my mind at peace.

[darkje]

Fix your fps to 60, and it works as it should....
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1184013727

[Blacksmyth Zephlyn]

Originally posted by darkje:

Fix your fps to 60, and it works as it should....
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1184013727

I'm trying your fix now and so far I guess it's working but I havent tried it fully enough yet, however, I am now noticing that some of dialogue gets cut off mainly in the comic cutscenes and it just makes it feel awkward.

[darkje]

Mmm odd, you can try to remove dsound.dll from your game directory, it should not matter if you had the sound working before.

[Blacksmyth Zephlyn]

Originally posted by darkje:

Mmm odd, you can try to remove dsound.dll from your game directory, it should not matter if you had the sound working before.

Ok I'll uninstall my game and reinstall it, redownload the files from the Fix and see if it works.

[Blacksmyth Zephlyn]

Originally posted by darkje:

Mmm odd, you can try to remove dsound.dll from your game directory, it should not matter if you had the sound working before.

Works pretty good thank you.
Still run into a few minor annoyances but nothing major.

[darkje]

Ok, good it's working now.
Just for the record, what was the cause? If it was dsound.dll what sound hardware do you have?

[Blacksmyth Zephlyn]

Originally posted by darkje:

Ok, good it's working now.
Just for the record, what was the cause? If it was dsound.dll what sound hardware do you have?

I honestly don't know. I just uninstallled and reinstalled the game on steam and it worked fine I didn't need to download the files or anything but I guess it got rid of the original dsound.dll and kept the FixItAll file.

Even though the cutscenes look like I'm still playing the game, it's not a major issue.

[darkje]

The cutscene format is stretched because of the widescreen fix and can be changed by pressing F2, if you want to have the buttons in view.

[Blacksmyth Zephlyn]

Originally posted by darkje:

The cutscene format is stretched because of the widescreen fix and can be changed by pressing F2, if you want to have the buttons in view.

It didn't fix the in-game cutscenes for me but like I said it's not a big issue. All I wanted was the Vinnie chase mission to be fixed and the files solves the problems I've been having for the most part.

Thanks

-Tony

[Bluebeak]

Ive found the problem has to do with turning vsync on via the graphics card.

[darkje]

Yea, but on some vga cards that setting is not obeyed when running in dx8, that is where the fix helps out

[b2007929]

At what frame rate do these issues occur?
Do you have a above 60 Hz monitor? The game locks your frame rate to your monitor's refresh rate as Vsync is always enabled.

[darkje]

For me it happens when I get above several 100's of fps, in the past I could avoid them by setting the game's options to high and apply some AA to drag it down a bit, but on most newer hardware you can get 1000's of fps quite easily. Even with vsync enabled I get high fps, because somehow with directx8 games the vsync setting seems to be ignored... as soon as I use one of the dx8 to dx9 or dx11 wrappers it does obey the vsync setting. It seems to be an issue with W10: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/forcing-vsync-in-dx8-games.404871/

[b2007929]

Originally posted by darkje:

For me it happens when I get above several 100's of fps, in the past I could avoid them by setting the game's options to high and apply some AA to drag it down a bit, but on most newer hardware you can get 1000's of fps quite easily. Even with vsync enabled I get high fps, because somehow with directx8 games the vsync setting seems to be ignored... as soon as I use one of the dx8 to dx9 or dx11 wrappers it does obey the vsync setting. It seems to be an issue with W10: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/forcing-vsync-in-dx8-games.404871/

You can use MSI Afterburner with Rivatuner to cap frame rate: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/msi-afterburner-beta-download.html

[Goodboy]

Originally posted by Takagi:

I don't know about anyone else but for some reason the level when you're chasing Gognitti through the rooftops, the level is so bugged for me.
It's not broken to the point where it's unplayable but I'll give you some examples as to what's been going on.

1:While Vinnie is running from Max before he jumps on the train his model just stops but continues his running animation as if something blocks him.

FIX: I keep pressing the menu button every time to continue his movement and it works.

2: While Vinnie is jumping across the rooftops in slow-motion, for some reason his model actually misses the jump and you can see him falling. Thankfully the game doesn't recognize this and continues as if that never happened but it's still weird to see.

FIX: N/A

3: While Max is running through the rooftops, before he is able to get into the first building a police helicopter is supposed to spot him and call out to stop Max. I only know this because I've played Max Payne before and for some reason it's not playing anymore when I had to recently buy this game again. Not a big issue but still a bug.

FIX: N/A

4: While running down the stairs in the first building I am actually able to see Vinnie's character model just standing on the bottom part of the stairs not running away. You can shoot at him but it won't do anything so I just run past him and then the sequence plays with Vinnie running down the stairs telling his goons at the bottom to go after Max. What makes it even more weird is that this is supposed to be a cutscene and I am somehow able to move Max during the cutscene and I shouldn't be at the bottom of the stairs where the goons are. At this point I knew for sure that this had to be a bugged level and it led to some very cheap deaths especially when I went through it on the hardest difficulty.

FIX: While the cutscene plays where Vinnie yells at his goons to go up the stairs to kill Max, I am able to move Max a bit back up the stairs but it still leads me to a few cheap deaths because I can't do anything until the camera switches back to Max but at this point I'm unfairly killed. I just redo this sequence over and over again until the enemy AI becomes terrible shots and I'm able to kill them once the camera let's me play as Max again.


There are a few more bugs I'm getting with this game but most of them have been stated already in the forums. The reason I wanted to post this was to see if anyone else is getting these bugs in their game or if it was just to me and that I could just delete and reinstall my game and that it would work again. But then again with that infamous sound bug I would have to download the patch and configure it again. I just don't really want to do something if it's just gonna waiste my time. Like I said, these bugs don't make the game unplayable for me but they are still annoying and make me just want to buy a console version of the game and set my mind at peace.

i did the same, Vinnie was just standing at the stairs and cutscene started, i moved back and killed the goons, needed some tries :D im happy that this fix worked for this bug