Performance

Here are a few performance tips to make sure Max Payne runs optimally on your PC.

Tip 1: You should check that you have the latest drivers installed for your motherboard and especially for the AGP bus. These drivers make sure that all communication between the graphics adapter, CPU and memory are done using the most efficient way, for example by enabling full AGP support. If your system is based on an AMD Processor, updating the drivers is of utmost importance, since most Microsoft Windows versions have limited out-of-the-box support for motherboard chipsets commonly used with AMD processors. These are known as AGP Miniport drivers.

Here's a short list of sites where you can find suitable drivers for most common system configurations:

Tip 2: Please check that you have "AGP Texture Acceleration Enabled" in DirectX. Here's how to check if it's enabled:

  1. Click on your windows "Start"
  2. Choose "Run..."
  3. Type: dxdiag
  4. Press "OK"
  5. Then when dxdiag has loaded, select the "Display" tab
  6. Make sure that the "AGP Texture Acceleration" is ENABLED. If it's not, please enable it.

If it was disabled, and you have now enabled it, you should get a performance boost up to 50%.

Tip 3: Check that you have the latest drivers installed for your graphics card. New drivers are available from your graphics card manufacturer.

Tip 4: Disable all background tasks and programs on your PC. They may consume precious memory and cause your computer to swap during game play.

Tip 5: Defragment your hard drive. It may improve loading times.

Tip 6: Disable VSync in your graphics card control panel. With some cards this may increase frame rate.

Tip 7: Adjust detail levels in Max Payne Options dialog.

  • If you have a Hardware T&L enabled 3D accelerator, make sure you have "D3D Hardware T&L" selected as the Rendering Platform.
  • If you have an older graphics card, run in 640x480 resolution, 16-bit colors.
  • Check that you have selected 16-bit textures. 32-bit textures can dramatically lower performance in some cases.
  • Refer to the tool tips in the Options menu for more details!

Note: 3D performance under Windows 2000 may be slightly lower than performance on Windows 9x/ME operating systems.