Max Payne 3 Tweak Guide. Before covering the various graphics- related settings that have the most significant impact on performance and image quality, this section examines the other options menus. ![]() To access the in- game settings, launch Max Payne 3 and select the Settings item under the Main Menu. The Graphics options are covered on the next few pages, but first we examine the general Gameplay, Controls, Display and Audio- related settings in detail. Gameplay. Difficulty: This setting is available when you choose to begin a New Story, or when you pause during a game by pressing ESC and going to Gameplay under Settings (you can adjust difficulty at any time during the game). The available options at the start are Easy, Medium and Hard. By completing the game on Hard you will unlock two additional difficulty levels: Hardcore and Old School. The key differences in difficulty are: Easy: Increased health and Bullet Time rewards. ![]() Medium: Moderate health and Bullet Time rewards. Hard: Low health and Bullet Time rewards. Hardcore: Minimal health and Bullet Time rewards. Old School: The Last Man Standing feature is disabled. Furthermore, at Easy or Medium, a dynamic difficulty feature is in effect, providing you with additional painkillers to help you pass points in the game where you die repeatedly. You will also restart a checkpoint with at least one full magazine of ammunition in each gun. Hard difficulty also has dynamic difficulty, but it is much less beneficial. Not only does that mean everyone can get into drone racing (provided they have a PC or Mac that meets the minimum requirements), it means you can do it all without. The Sony W600B LED TV is a great budget gaming TV. However, it has a narrow viewing angle and it doesn't have advanced features like motion interpolation. If you die 5 times you will get a bonus painkiller, and if you die 1. Gamepad Targeting: If you are using a gamepad in Max Payne 3, this setting will have an impact on how you aim, and hence the overall difficulty of combat. The available options are explained below: Hard Lock: When aiming, your reticle will be strongly guided to focus on enemies. Soft Lock: When aiming, your reticle will be lightly guided towards enemies. Free Aim: Aiming assistance is turned off. Reticles: This setting controls the targeting reticle (crosshair) which displays in the center of the screen. The available options are Default, which displays a small white dot that turns red when placed over a valid target; Always White which shows a dot that always stays white and does not turn red when placed over a target; and Weapon Specific, which changes the reticle to different shapes, such as a crosshair or circle, and different sizes depending on the bullet spread/blast radius of your particular weapon. Kill Indicator: If set to On, whenever a shot actually kills an enemy, a small 'x' will briefly be shown in place of your reticle. This allows you to be sure that the enemy is dead, and not just temporarily down. If you want to disable this feature, set it to Off. Target Tracking: This feature will assist in tracking moving enemies when aiming at them. Set it to Off if you want to disable this form of aiming assistance. Outline Pickups: If set to On, a bright outline will be shown around weapon pickups, making them easier to see, especially when weapons are scattered around corpses and debris on the ground. Introduce yourself to the forum. NO questions may be asked here. Use the forums below. The definitive graphics, performance and tweaking guide for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Discover the performance and visual impact of each game setting, and learn how. Target Slowdown: If set to On, your mouse movements will slow down whenever your reticle nears a target. This can help improve precision, but it can also give an unpredictable and inconsistent feel to mouse input during combat. If you don't want any aiming assistance, or simply don't like the non- linear input response that this option provides, then set it to Off. Golden Gun Effects: Golden Guns can be found in pieces as pickups throughout the game. Once you complete all the pieces of a particular golden gun, the gun will be automatically skinned with a reflective golden design in single- player, and be available as an optional extra in the multiplayer weapon customization screen. If this option is set to Off, the golden color of the gun is removed during the campaign and other single- player modes. Controls. Under the Controls section, you can configure your Gamepad, Keyboard or Mouse controls. Most settings are self- explanatory, but below are some details regarding the Mouse configuration options: Horizontal Aiming Speed, Vertical Aiming Speed: These sliders control the level of responsiveness of the mouse to movements along the horizontal (side to side) and vertical (up and down) axes respectively. This has a significant impact on your aiming and hence your degree of success in killing enemies, particularly during Bullet Time. An overclocking forum devoted to maximizing the performance of graphics cards, CPUs, motherboards, RAM and everything else found inside your computer case. Speed up & clean up unlimited PCs, Macs and mobile devices. AVG TuneUp keeps them running like new, prolongs battery life & keeps your software up-to-date. Our beautiful, splashy fish son can now occasionally be found as a boss fight in Pokémon Go. Upcoming monster disaster game Kyoei Toshi (City Shrouded in Shadow) looks wild, no? The PS4 exclusive will be out this October in Japan. No word yet on an. Make sure you also check the Target Slowdown and Target Tracking settings covered further above, as they have an impact on mouse responsiveness during combat. Furthermore, check the VSync setting in the graphics section of this guide, as enabling VSync at any time (including Adaptive VSync) can introduce some control lag, which once again affects the level of mouse responsiveness. Mouse Acceleration: Added as of the second patch, this option when set to Off forces Max Payne 3 to disable all mouse acceleration. Mouse acceleration can result in non- linear responses to mouse movements, typically increasing the distance the mouse moves for faster movements, and decreasing mouse responsiveness for slower movements. Note that aside from mouse acceleration, the Target Slowdown setting under the Gameplay settings also has a similar impact on mouse responsiveness. Invert Mouse Look: If set to On, pushing your mouse forward will make Max aim down, and moving your mouse back will make him aim upwards. If set to Off, the arrangement is reversed. Display. Contrast: This slider controls the difference between bright and dark areas in the game. The slider ranges from 0 to 1. Set it to suit your taste, but if set too low the game will appear milky and washed out, and if set too high, everything will appear overly dark. Make sure to correctly adjust your Brightness first (see further below) before adjusting the contrast. Subtitles: If set to On, text subtitles will be shown at the bottom of the screen during conversations. Setting this option to Off removes all such subtitles. Bullet Time FX: This setting controls the effects which are used when you trigger Bullet Time slow- motion mode. When set to On, a series of visual effects is used to represent the time- altering nature of Bullet Time. These effects may be annoying to you, or may reduce your performance. You can disable all such effects by selecting Off here, however this will make it difficult to immediately notice whether Bullet Time is in effect, and also reduces the cinematic look of Bullet Time. Adjust Brightness: When selected, this option takes you to a screen where you can use a slider to adjust your game brightness. The correct level is achieved when the Max Payne logo is just barely visible. If raised too high, the game will be washed out and unrealistic; too low and details will be lost in darkness. Audio. Music, SFX: These sliders respectively control the volume level of music, sound effects and dialog in the game. Set to suit your taste, as they have no impact on performance. Output: This option determines the way in which in- game audio is processed. Note that the PC version of Max Payne 3 uses much lower compression rates on the audio than the console versions, which means the audio is of higher quality. Voice Chat. The options available here control the voice chat feature which is available for use during the Multiplayer component of Max Payne 3. If you are only playing the single- player component then you can set the Enabled option to Off. On the next page we begin our look at the various graphics- related settings in Max Payne 3. Forums. Forum. Last Post. Threads. Posts. (1. Viewing). (1. 5 Viewing). Viewing). (1. 5 Viewing). Viewing). A discussion area for rumors, musings, and articles from sources that lack evidence or otherwise cannot be confirmed as 'news'. Sony W6. 00. B Review (KDL4. W6. 00. B, KDL4. 8W6. B)1. 02 ANSWERED QUESTIONS. Can you post the calibration settings for the KDL4. W6. 00. B? Meanwhile, some other sources said that it's only 6. Hz with 2. 40. Hz backlight scan. Which one is correct ? If you are a gamer, it doesn't matter. The motion handling is good and the LED Motion mode is useful for reducing the blur (better than motion interpolation on 1. Hz TVs). It is not the same thing as motion interpolation. It doesn't create new frames, but turns on the backlight for a very small amount of time per frame. This reduces the persistence of the picture, and thus reduces motion blur as well. However, this mode isn't without its drawbacks. It significantly reduces the brightness of the screen and adds a slightly visible flickering (about the same as an old CRT). Let me explain. Now, with Sony, when I turn on the TV, if I press INPUT to select the HDMI input, I have to wait like 2. TV displays 'Please wait'. The same thing with digital channels using cable. If you turn on the TV, and if you try to change the channel, you also have to wait like 1. Later, or if you turn the TV off and on, everything starts to work fast. But when you turn off the TV and try to use it again after like an hour, all the waiting time is back. Also, the software is really slow when you try to use apps, or plug in a USB drive. If, for example, LG displayed only file names, Sony tries to display pictured icons, and to generate that, you have to wait. So, if you plug in USB drive with 8 GB, and it has a few seasons of some TV series stored on it (3. Mb per episode), you will wait almost two minutes for the TV to list all the content. Maybe in the future try to focus part of the review on software? Because while picture quality is important, there will be minimal differences between the cheapest and most expensive TVs if they both display the same HD video. We also had the same issue with the USB drive (ours took 1. We didn't mention anything about the software because we planned on doing a video review / article only on it later. Thanks for sharing your experience with it; others will find it useful to know. Some people say that 6. W6. 00b has a 1. 20hz panel, is edge- lit, and has some other features that are different from the 4. W6. 00b. How can we sure? Can you share a link of the 6. W6. 00b's specs? Will you review the 6. W6. 00b? You are doing great job. Instead, there is the KDL6. W6. 30. B. They changed the number because it is not the same TV; the refresh rate is different. It is currently not very high on our priority list, but we might get to it in a few weeks. It seems the specs are closer to the W8. B (just without 3. D) than the W6. 00. B. It seems Cinema is the best option with regards to Scene Selection, and that lowering the brightness helps with noise/grain/pixelation. Are there any other settings that could be suggested (Noise Reduction?)? Any help would be greatly appreciated. From there, enable options according to your personal preferences (although for Blu- ray, we don't recommend any). Noise Reduction is meant for low bit rate media like cable or streaming. Thanks again, and I'm looking forward to the hockey season to start to watch it on my new TV : ). Try the same calibration settings that we posted. Turn on LED Motion Mode and bring the backlight setting to the max. Make sure also to disable the ECO settings (found in a separate menu at the top right corner of the smart hub). Had a couple of spontaneous reboots and periods of 1min+ no response to my remote. Did you notice this behavior? Pretty much all smart TVs are laggy, so we didn't think much of it. Did the reboots occur only when using the smart TV interface? Thanks for the wonderful reviews. I've read a lot of reviews complaining about the W6. B's flimsy build quality and being able to see the bright LED backlight through gaps between the panel and the bezel. Have you seen this issue with your test model? How does the build quality compare to the W8. B? The frame is all plastic and very light (some TVs have a metal frame, but rare in this range). It might be due to the lightness, but it doesn't feel like a high- end TV. Our unit didn't have gaps like you mentioned, but I wouldn't be surprised if some units had some. The build of the W8. B is very similar. In fact, it does seem even more flimsy, because the thin part of the TV's (top half) back is soft. When lifting the W8. B to put it in place, I was actually surprised by this and worried about squishing it too hard with my fingers. Love everything about the TV except the picture quality on certain channels. I had cable come and replace the box and put all new cables in, but it made no difference. They are telling me it's the refresh rate. Sony disagrees. So with darker colors and skin tones you see a shadow of the same color overlaying the image. It's difficult to explain, but it's like a clear picture and then the something like a clear film gets overlayed on and off. It is driving me crazy. I have already taken this TV back and replaced it with the same TV at no change. Could this be the 6. Sony tells me that the TV really has a refresh rate of 2. I am very confused and frustrated. Any thoughts on this? The 2. 40 number of Sony is just for marketing. A couple of things could cause this issue, but it depends on what you mean by this. Is it only when things are moving? If so, it could be motion blur. Try Cinema mode and turn 'LED Motion Mode' on/off to see if it changes anything. If it is also present with static objects, maybe it is a screen uniformity problem. Hard to tell without seeing it. Which of these is better in terms of image quality and handling motion blur? The main uses will be sports and video games. NOTE: I really like how it looks in 1. Hz, and the soap opera effect does not bother me at all. We haven't tested the W6. B yet, but based on the bigger W8. B, it most likely will be the best for your usage. We will confirm this when we review it. Get the Samsung UN4. H6. 35. 0 instead. This happens often because retailers like to have different model numbers to make price matching more difficult. Is the W6. 00. B the TV I should get if that is the majority of what I watch? A lot of people prefer to turn on the motion interpolation feature (not found on this Sony) for sports because it increases fluidity and reduces motion blur. I'd like to voice my interest in a review. By the way, thank you so much for being just about the only review site that understands how to properly review a television and actually has a section dedicated to motion blur. And thanks for the feedback! It seems like the W6. B is better in nearly all respects, except for black uniformity and viewing angle. In a pitch dark room, the F5. As soon as you have a few lights on, it reflects too much light. The W6. 00. B is a more versatile TV. This practice is quite common, and one of the advantages (from a retailer perspective) is that it prevents price matches. I think Samsung has the Android play store. What about this Sony? You are limited to the list under All Apps. I recently purchased one and in the lower left there are small clouds by the frame. I was wondering if I got a bad one or if this is normal. Only noticeable in a very dark room. The bigger it is, the more likely clouding will be present. If it is only noticeable in a very dark room, it isn't very bad. If you want, you can try a simple trick to reduce it. It doesn't always work, but it takes only a few seconds to try: massage the screen using a soft cloth where the clouding is. You don't need a lot of pressure, just enough to move that little bit the screen. This is a good gaming TV, but to those of you out there that want a TV for movies as well, stay away. I'll check out the 5. I guess I'll be going back to a Samsung set and living with mediocre input lag. I'm open to any other suggestions, either setting adjustments or another TV - I'm thinking h. Thanks again for the timely reply/assist - this site and its staff are a godsend. Just to make sure we are on the same page, by judder, you mean an uneven frame time? Maybe you really mean either a shutter effect or something related to frame rate. This TV does not have motion interpolation, so it won't give out that smooth look. Also, have you confirmed that the TV receives a 2. Pressing the Display button on the remote should bring up that info. I would just like to know if this TV would be good for my gaming needs and Blu- Ray watching, and what the best setting would be to put it on when I'm gaming (if I need to put it on game mode, turn a feature on, etc). Thank you so much! As for the settings, you can use the ones that we posted in a sub- page of this review for both gaming and movies. All things considered, in your opinion, is the KDL5. W8. 00. B worth the difference? Just want to add that it won't be used as a gaming TV, and that 3. D is not important. The W8. 00. B still has superior picture quality, but only by a relatively small margin, so go for the W6. B. I've looked at both in the store and it seems like the W8. B has noticeably better depth and clarity to it; although, that may be in large part due to the W8. B being set up with Sony's own 1. W6. 00. B was not. It also has more features, like 3. D and motion interpolation. The difference isn't very big though, so if you are on a budget, the W6. B is still a great choice. I wonder if the 4. There is usually no difference in terms of input lag. Update: We got a 4. The input lag is slightly more than on the W8. B, but it is very unlikely that you can tell a difference. I returned a Vizio a few weeks ago because of input lag and dark corners. Would you recommend the W6. B over the W8. 00. B (or any other set)? It had a better uniformity than our W8. B. It doesn't get much better than this for an LED. Keep in mind, though, that the uniformity varies by unit, so if you are unlucky, you could still get a bad one. The input lag is slightly higher on the W6. B than the W8. 00. B, but it is still really great and not noticeable.
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