Max Payne 3 was released in 2012 for old-gen platforms and since I’ve recently replayed it, I still consider it a great looking game on the PC. Yes, the skin shaders and overall lighting are not up to what you’d expect from a triple-A current-gen title, however it still remains beautiful. And below you can find a video showing this game running in 8K resolution with more than 100fps on Very High settings.
However, there is a catch. In order to achieve this, YouTube’s ‘Thirty IR’ has used two NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080Ti graphics cards in SLI (via NVLink). SLI scaling appears to be great in this game and for the most part, the game was running with more than 100fps (though there were some drops at 80fps in various scenes).
Still, it’s pretty amazing witnessing older games running in such ridiculously high resolutions. Of course you’ll need two RTX2080Ti (that will cost you around $3000) but again, I think it’s fascinating watching games running in 8K.
Enjoy!
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I love going back and playing older games at crazy framerates and resolutions. It’s one of the best parts of PC gaming.
Most forgettable game Rockstar have ever made followed by GTA 5.
Here come Fortnite lovers.
LOL what? Was a great game, loved every minute.
Well I don’t like run and gun game with unskippable boring cutscenes with LENS BLEED !!
It completely forgot that its predecessor were noir games which was its most appealing aspect .
That’s what I didn’t like about MP3. Constantly having control ripped away from me for cut scenes. Pulled me out of immersion over and over again. Then on top of that it would sometimes drop me back in game with a different gun than I had specifically chosen.
gamepaly is great though but everything else is terrible.
2 X 2080 Ti is out of reach for almost everyone but I have run across a small few that can and will spend that much. One guy on TPU years ago was asking for advice on running 4 X Maxwell Titans. That was $5,000 just in GPUs.
It amazes me what modern GPUs are capable of. An 8K monitor is the equivalent number of pixels as running 16 X 1080p monitors simultaneously. At 100 FPS those 2 cards together are processing around 3.3 billion pixels per second.
I’m planning to buy 4 of these ! 😀
if you’re crazy rich you’re not a hardcore gamer so you won’t spend that much on hardware, those people (who spend that much on hardware) are usually type of people who have autism and spend their entire money on gaming. single men are also another group who would spend crazy amount of their income on gaming.
You are getting a little too close to home. Please change topics….
point to where it hurts
3rd best shooter game ever.
What are your first two picks?
You guess.
It will be in first place if they don’t use Max Payne name…
I think it would be amazing to run modern high quality games this way.running old games is nice and fun but the word amazing is really an exaggeration.
You and me both.
Me too…:D
Max Payne 3 should have been a continuation of Remedy’s story with Rockstar’s gun-play mechanics.
We only got the latter.
It directly follows Remedy’s story. There’s even flashback gameplay in snowy New York.
remedy would have done a gritty and dark sequel, rockstar makes fun games to play but their worlds always have a bit of craziness and comedy touch into them.
Thirty IR is well known for playing games in ridiculously high resolutions thanks to SLI. I remember his battlefield gameplay around two years ago 8K, 100fps.
I spent $1,600 on two 780Ti Classified cards when they first came out, and I would totally spend twice that on two 2080Ti cards. The reason being is because of stuff like this. Or posting 3DMark scores in the top 1%; that feels pretty awesome.
Can never forgive R* for what they did with the story, they completely ignored the true ending of the 2nd game in which Mona survives the last battle. They also stripped the game of its noir setting. Those were the biggest mistakes that R* made and I hate em for that. I hope that someday we can that a true proper sequel follow up to the 2nd game
thats not the true ending. That’s an alternate ending lol.
never happening at least in our life time.
Why now, this has been done before already.
Sometimes it’s just nice to have a reminder that these games exist. I’m going to go replay it now.
If I had a 1000$ I could get back to PC gaming.
So are you currently Gaming on a Console, “PlayStation, XBOX” etc, or you are just being sarcastic ?
Alfred is no longer so Noble.
100fps@8k, I would hope so . My rx480 does well at 3440×1440.
Second half of MP3 was utter garbage, it became the bullet sponge the game, also fat bald payne was meh, cut-scenes were beyond awful.
I enjoyed every second of that game what was bad about the cut scenes?
All of that stupid drunk effect/filter stuff.
Sure, part of the trip or journey to psychedelic hell, you can love or hate it
the effects and the fact that you could never skip them
By the way, there is a recent mod for that
just installed max payne 3 because of your comment, can you give me a link?
nvm, found it. it’s very buggy, made my game crash at the football mission.
what do you mean bullet sponge? If you have half decent aim you can pick apart enemies with precise headshots. And Max Payne 3 compared to is predecessors is all about accuracy.
>what do you mean bullet sponge?
Isn’t it self explanatory ? when you have to empty 2 clips in dude’s body in a game that mimics real world physics is wrong. first half, aim,shoot, watch them drop. second half, aim,oh body armour,oh this plastic thingy in the way so shoot it 20 more times.
>If you have half decent aim.
It’s not about your aiming, everyone can have a half decent aim in a game that bullet time is it’s main mechanic. being realistic till some point, then screw it, now we have helemts can survive tons of shots is one of it’s the problem.
>what do you mean bullet sponge?
Isn’t it self explanatory ? when you have to empty 2 clips in dude’s body in a game that mimics real world physics is wrong. first half, aim,shoot, watch them drop. second half, aim,oh body armour,oh this plastic thingy in the way so shoot it 20 more times. it was on my nerves.
>If you have half decent aim.
It’s not about your aiming, everyone have a half decent aim in a game that bullet time is it’s main mechanic. being realistic till some point, then screw it, now we have helemts can survive tons of shots is one of it’s the problem.
game becomes too easy if you can just aim in the general area of the enemy and press m1. I agree with you that enemies shouldn’t be that tanky when it comes to late game. But I argue its necessary because it forces the player to become more accurate and make shots more precise. It also mixs up the game is played. Also correct me if am wrong but don’t body shots stun enemies allowing you land headshots
MP3 is a great game to bench, plenty of high quality visuals, don’t care what anyone says here this game is a classic.
great game, not perfect but lots of nice sequences…
+1. I’m on the same boat, but I’m not in a hurry to upgrade my RIG yet.
Out of curiosity, what are your current PC specs ? I’m still rocking an i7 4790 CPU, paired with an RX 480 card, with 16 GB DDR3 G.skill RAM, and a simple 1080p BENQ monitor.
But I’m a light casual gamer, so I’m okay with my current setup.
wouldn’t you need to rehaul your entire motheboard when upgrading? And buy new ram because its DDR3?
Yes, you are correct. I would be requiring a complete system overhaul, if I want to upgrade to any of the latest GEN of CPUs.
That would include the MOBO+ DDR4 RAM+CPU (be it Intel or Amd)..
where are you from, i have some ideas but it’s hard to pinpoint.
Better start eating Ramin…
yeah I had the same problem with my old rig. Wanted to upgrade my i3 4130 and HD 7790, but the newer CPU’s need a different socket. Also my DDR3 Ram wasn’t compatible with my mobo.
I’m in the same boat.
Glad to hear that. Those are some pretty modest PC specs, but more than enough for gaming on that screen resolution.
4GB of MEM can be a slight detrimental factor for some games, but this is not that much of a big issue, unless you really run out of physical memory.
Depends on what in-game settings have been applied, as well as the engine.
You have a very good CPU though. This processor packs a lot of punch. You can even pair it with some other high-end GPU, once you upgrade.
Btw yes, even I’m not crazy about Screen Resolution. I’m fine with 1080p. Cheers, and happy Gaming !
1080p, 144hz monitors are far superior to every other 60hz monitors out there besides for me personally i mostly play on 800 x 600 so frequency is all that matters.
***OFF Topic***.
Just a quick question, if you guys don’t mind This might sound dumb, but which MAX PAYNE game will you guys actually recommend me to play ?
I haven’t played any Max Payne game before though, so which one in the series is the best ? Please don’t post any story spoilers.
Can I directly jump on MAX PAYNE 3, without playing the previous two titles ? Pardon my ignorance, but I could really use some help form you hardcore gamers.
I don’t mind the graphics/visuals, as I’m looking for a good and strong storyline/gameplay plot.
Thanks in advance..!
Play them all but if you only want to do one of them, play 2 on hard mode.
Thanks much..
Yes you can jump to MP3 without playing the other 2. I would recommend playing MP1 and MP2 if you have time.
If you only have time for one game then I would recommend MP2 as the best of the three games.
Cheers ! MP2 it is then.
Play 1 then 2 as one great (and not too long) experience , although gameplay didn’t aged very well (this is where third game excels btw)
Max Payne 1 is one of the best games I have ever played but I dont know how you will react to outdated graphics. It still has amazing atmosphere and gameplay elements.
get max payne 2 and install mods on them, you will love it. but if you care about story start from max payne 1 which also is a great game.
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by the way max payne 1 has great mods too.
Nope, I want to see 16K resolution gaming, that is if these displays actually hit the market !
Because, despite the effective end of conventional “Moore’s Law” scaling, it seems unlikely we’ll see 16K resolution screens, even in VR, except maybe in a multi-monitor setup.
After all, 15360×8640 is a monster resolution for even the most aggressive of modern GPUs !
I’m talking about an actual 16K screen though.
Because “Thirty IR” is using a native 4K monitor running on 3840 x 2160, 60Hz, so he has just upscaled the resolution.
But obviously at a certain point, there is little sense in going from an 8K to 16K screen. The limitations can be found in the human eye, when the pixels get so small that we cannot separate them any more.
I don’t know enough about 16K to make an educated guess but I’ve read that for typical monitor sizes 8K is the limit to what most people will be able to see the difference anymore. I guess for a large screen, maybe TV size, there would be an improvement.
We still haven’t adopted 4K for the most part. iirc 4K was introduced about 5 years ago and if the Steam Hardware Survey is to be believed then only around 1 out of 200 gamers have adopted it last time I checked. People have been saying for years that 4K will be mainstream soon but it just doesn’t ever happen. Probably due to the added expense of a high end GPU to run it.
I think 8K mainstream adoption is a long, long, long way off and as far as 16K……well, maybe my grandchildren will see that.
I totally agree with you on this. 16K monitors are just a dream, and I don’t think we are going to see them hit the market anytime soon.
Except for some OLED screens, but these are going to be VERY very expensive, around 9K USD (even MORE). That’s just a rough estimate though, because currently a 4k OLED screen costs around 3, 500 USD.
So imagine the cost of 8K/16K screens ! Adoption rate of 4K is very less, let alone 8K screens.
Like you said, except for some large TV size screen, 16K would make some sense, but the cost of making this would be a huge detrimental factor.
It’s a long long time for even 4K to become mainstream ! 1080p seems to be the most widely adopted monitor among Gamers, as of now.
***not sure why, but somehow I missed the above comment of yours, as Disqus never notified me of this ?, but just now got an email notification instead, lol.***
the physics in max payne 3 is disgustingly superior compared to gtav even with that must have physic mod.
if you go back and play max payne 2 you can clearly see what they were going for back then, you can see the connection and similarities it have with rage engine used in gtaiv. so rockstar owes a lot to remedy imo, remedy always was one step ahead when it came to creating believable physics in their games.
Too bad the vid is capped at 1080p. That coupled with yt’s compression makes it hard to see what should be glaringly obvious visual improvements.