Why does Mafia DE support Ultrawide but Mafia 2/3 do not?

[BigSilverHotdog]

I can't believe what I'm seeing and I'm seeing 2/3 both utterly broken in Ultrawide along with massive numbers of comments around the internet that both just don't work in Ultrawide.

How is this possible? Mafia DE is based on the 3 engine ffs! Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.

[WillieSea]

Because the Mafia DE is a newer game than 2/3.

Do a search of the forum, you may find where people figured out to play in UW.

[BigSilverHotdog]

I did, they didn't, and it is absolutely not newer -- all 3 definitive editions were released the same year: 2020. There's simply no excuse for 2 and 3 being so broken in so many ways. The first time I clicked new game on the main menu Mafia 3 crashed to desktop, and II actually worked better on ultrawide when I first tried to play it with the Director's Cut version in 2011! I've waited so many years to play these games in a polished state but its obviously never going to happen. But hey, at least they've already got my money amirite? Madness.

[hackintoshchap]

Mafia DE was a remade title made in 2020. Mafia 2DE got some minor graphics updates. Mafia 3 is really still from 2016, focused on console for development and then ported to PC. The DE version included previously optional paid DLC and received some minor updates.

Anyone with understanding that all three were remade just assumed that this was the case without basic checking procedure - just asking on these Steam forums would have given you a better sense of reality.

Don't run graphics at max settings, the AA is TAA and softens the image horribly. A few other settings best reduced. Many also use reshade.

[BigSilverHotdog]

All DE were all released in 2020 regardless of the release year for the original game so I don't understand what point you are trying to make. Mafia 1 did not support ultrawide originally but in the 2020 DE it did. Mafia 2 supported ultrawide originally but in the 2020 DE it did not. I don't know if Mafia 3 did or did not originally (reports vary) but in the 2020 DE it did not. It's just crazy, sloppy, and unprofessional to first do this and then not to fix it (and to call them all "definitive" is just a slap in the face).

And it's got nothing to do with graphics at max settings (which obviously I don't do regarding AA, I'm not exactly new to this considering I beat the original Mafia 22 years ago on a ti4600). Both 2 and 3 are simply fundamentally broken on ultrawide (and after Mafia 2 worked previously!).

[hackintoshchap]

Mafia 3 never supported Ultrawide, hoops always had to be jumped through. Again it was developed for 16:9 console with HDR support.

PC users got a basic port, no HDR, no proper g-sync support and lots of other omissions.

I don't think that these decisions were made by the developers, rather the publisher 2K. When it came to Mafia 3DE, there was clearly again no budget allowed to make a number of 'DE' class improvements.

Just try to explain how the game appears to be as it is, I mentioned the graphics because you will know if you turn everything up, then you get a soft mushy mess - again more of an FYI. It wasn't anything to do with not having Ultrawide support.

I think that lately some have been using the lossless scaling application to help them run on ultrawide.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

Worth a search.

[BigSilverHotdog]

Thanks for the info, will check that out for sure.

[DoC]

I guess i will play this on my steam deck oled

[DoC]

on my samsung g9 the UI is messed up