Comments on: How to play the game Mafia under Windows Vista SP1

By: Trocar

Trocar — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:42:55 +0000

in response to my previous entry:

Oh darn!

I overlooked the 60Hz option in the setup!
I set it to 60Hz and there are no problems starting the game anymore - regardless of other settings!

My bad!

By: Trocar

Trocar — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:39:17 +0000

Sort of works:

Indeo codec installation crashed when it was looking for a Netscape copy. So I used ‘custom install’ and disabled ‘browser codec’ (or something like that - bottom one in the list). After that the codec installed fully.

Then Mafia opens - first the splash-screen, then a black fullscreen that immediately minimizes into the bottom taskbar of Win Vista (it says ‘Mafia ..zzZZ’).
If I then wait until the sound stops and I click on it a couple of times, it goes to fullscreen black.
Then I can hit the spacebar and it loads into the Create Profile-screen.

This works most of the times and only if I have maximum resolution settings and triplebuffer and VSync set on.

But hey, it’s better that not playing at all!

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:20:50 +0000

Thx very much, after step 8 it worked!!!

By: Ridh

Ridh — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:32:29 +0000

Mate, thanks for the tip, it sort of work but every time I tried to lead the game, it just went blank and when I open the task manager it says that Mafia is not responding… may I ask why is that? and if there is a way to fix it

By: walrus

walrus — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:12:18 +0000

Thanks a lot! Tried everything till I found this site. U rock!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:14:47 +0000

Finally, it starts!
But then I get a black screen with no sound or video on startup, and have to CTRL+AlT+DELETE out.

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:14:30 +0000

Thanks a lot dude, you rock!

By: Frank Mejía

Frank Mejía — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:53:17 +0000

thanks, it works now

By: Amey Mulay

Amey Mulay — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:44:20 +0000

Just follow the steps as mentioned in the Screenshot & it worked perfectly fine even on Windows 7 64bit.

By: Duy Tran

Duy Tran — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:56:12 +0000

I do everything as you said, i can play the intro. But when I started, it jumped back to the window. Please help me!