General information
- Steam Community Discussions
- Steam Users' Forums for game series
- Remedy's forums for game
Availability
Essential improvements
Patches
Patches for Max Payne 2 can be downloaded here
Content
Two bonus chapters were released by the developer for the "Dead Man Walking" mode. They can be downloaded from Rockstar Games
Developer Mode
Max Payne 2 Developer is the special version of Max Payne 2 that can be accessed by using the -developer
command line argument. The following parameters can be used:
Parameter |
Description
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-developer |
Activates Developer Mode, which allows you see the games core input and output.
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-developerkeys |
activates Developer Keys, which allows you access special functions that developerkeys doesn't allow. See Developer Key Functions below.
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-screenshot |
Works with Developer Keys. Allows you to take screenshots with F3.
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-window |
Shows Max Payne 2 in a window rather than full screen.
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-skipstartup |
Skips the intro for Max Payne 2 and goes straight to the loading screen
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video settings
Launcher general settings.
Launcher advanced settings.
- Can only be changed in the launcher
Template:Video settings
Input settings
Template:Input settings
Audio settings
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Issues fixed
The launcher doesn't start
- Laptops using Nvidia Optimus must set the preferred graphics processor for Max Payne 2 to "Intel Integrated Graphics".
Error: setFullscreen - creating the device failed: E_FAIL
Error: Exception in startupInit: Directory \data not found
Game won't launch on AMD graphics cards, still shows up in task manager
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
2000, XP |
2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) |
1 GHz PIII/Athlon or 1.2 GHz Celeron/Duron processor
| 1 GHz PIII/Athlon or 1.2 GHz Celeron/Duron processor |
System memory (RAM) |
256 MB |
512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
1.5 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
AGP graphics card with hardware transform & lighting support 32 MB of VRAM
| AGP graphics card with hardware T&L support 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/12150/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (12150) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References