Update 31/07/2025: After announcing the PC specs for Mafia: The Old Country, players started to have concerns about what graphical modes on consoles would look like. Hangar 13 responded to players' worries, confirming that there will be Performance and Quality graphical modes available on consoles.
On PS5 and Xbox Series X, players can expect the game to run at 60 FPS in Performance mode. However, Hangar 13 does not say the same for the Quality mode. Instead, no target framerate is mentioned for the Quality mode. Cutscenes (and presumably on consoles) are already capped at 30 FPS on PC. It wouldn't be too surprising if Quality mode on consoles is capped at 30 FPS during gameplay.
What Hangar 13 does say on the subject is, "Players who want to prioritize higher resolution and visual fidelity should select Quality Mode, while players who prefer to prioritize framerate should select Performance Mode."
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Hangar 13 has announced the PC specs for Mafia: The Old Country, and unfortunately for anyone with a PC on the lower end of the hardware spectrum, you won't be playing this game at launch if you don't upgrade your hardware or buy a console.
Starting with the features PC players can enjoy if they have the hardware for it, Mafia: The Old Country will feature an uncapped framerate during gameplay, though the framerate will be capped to 30 FPS during cutscenes. Unreal Temporal Super Resolution, AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 4, NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling 4, and Intel Xe Super Sampling 2 will all be supported at launch, including V-Sync and frame generation for those with the hardware for the features. It'll also have HDR and ultrawide monitor support at launch.
And you'll seemingly need all the upscaling help you can get, as it's an extremely demanding game that seems to require more from your CPU than GPU, given the fact that even the minimum CPU requirements ask that you have an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X or Intel Core i7-9700K in your machine to play the game at 1920x1080p, with graphical settings at 'Medium.' As for the minimum GPU requirement, you'll either need an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT or NVIDIA RTX 2070 to have a smooth experience.
If you dared to play the game at the 'High' graphical preset at 2560x1440p, then you'd better have an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X or Intel Core i7-12700K CPU ready to go, paired with an AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT or NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti GPU.
Finally, playing the game with the graphical settings on 'Epic,' aiming for a 4K resolution, you'll need an AMD Ryzen 7 9700X or Intel Core i7-14700K CPU, paired with an AMD Radeon RX 9070 or NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti.
With all that said, even those with lower-spec hardware might be able to squeeze out some semblance of a good experience by tweaking the graphical settings to fit their build. Here are all the settings you can tweak at launch:
- Display Selection: (varies by setup)
- Screen Mode: Windowed, Borderless Fullscreen
- Window Resolution: (varies by setup)
- V-Sync: Off, On (supports VRR via G-Sync / FreeSync)
- Gameplay Frame Rate (FPS): 30, 40, 60, 90, 120, 144, Unlimited
- Quality Preset: Low, Medium, High, Epic, Custom
- Anti-Aliasing & Upscaling: Unreal TSR, NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR, Intel XeSS
- Upscaling Mode: Performance - High, Performance, Balanced, Quality, Quality - High, Native
- Sharpness: 0.1 - 1.0 (in increments of .1)
- Frame Generation: Off, On (on supported hardware)
- Global Illumination: High, Epic
- Shadows: Medium, High, Epic
- Reflections: Low, Medium, High, Epic
- View Distance: Near, Medium, Far, Epic
- Textures: Low, Medium, High, Epic
- Foliage: Low, Medium, High, Epic
- Effects: Low, Medium, High, Epic
- Post Processing: Medium, High, Epic
- Motion Blur: Off, On
Hopefully, when Mafia: The Old Country launches next week on August 8, 2025, it won't arrive with a slew of other technical issues that impair it from running well on the builds that it should run on without issue. We'll see how things go when it hits PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S next week.
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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