Max Payne 3

Mouse turning and water effects behave the same at any frame rate, and the game stops opening the pause menu by itself. Adds console gamma, TAA, DLAA or FSR, HDR, a wider view and a skip button that works on every cutscene.

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Graphics enhancementsPart of the Fusion Fix download · on by default

Smoother edges and a modern renderer Visual

DLAA with NVIDIA DLSS or AMD FSR, picked in the game's settings.

The runtime files the Anti-aliasing and Graphics API settings of Fusion Fix use: official releases, checked against their hashes.

Without a file, the game's menu doesn't offer what needs it

84 MB in all

Separate modsNot part of Fusion Fix

Fusion Rain Droplets Visual

Raindrops and splashes of water run down the screen.

Fusion Rain Droplets: rain and water drops running down the screen.

Works with Fusion Fix
Its own settings in Customize

Tune:Minimum drop sizeMaximum drop sizeMaximum dropsMaximum moving drops+10

2.8 MB · ThirteenAG/FusionRainDroplets · 16 Nov 2022

Original look vs console gamma

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Features

Fixes

Mouse turning keeps the same speed at any frame rate
Floating objects, ripples and helicopter downwash behave right at high frame rates
The game no longer opens the pause menu at random
No crash with leaderboard scores of ten or more digits
The comic-style cutscene panels slide as on the consoles again
Cleaner video playback, and motion blur no longer changes the picture's brightness
Intel graphics can use DirectX 10 and 11

Graphics

Console gamma: the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 curve, on every renderer
SMAA on every renderer
TAA, DLAA or FSR with adjustable sharpening (DirectX 11)
HDR output with paper white and peak brightness (DirectX 11, HDR display)
Field of view up to 45 degrees wider

Interface

Skip the intro videos
Skip every cutscene, also the ones the game won't let you skip; the prompt can be hidden
Subtitle size and outline size
HUD kept within a chosen aspect ratio on wide screens
Choice of controller button artwork
Look up and down while sprinting

Extras

Borderless window, with the cursor kept inside it
Frame rate limit in the Graphics menu
Logitech LightSync RGB lighting
Menu texts in all ten languages of the game

Supported versions

Max Payne 3: The Complete Edition, version 1.0.0.255 or later (the latest official update).
DirectX 9, 10, 10.1 and 11 renderers. TAA, DLAA, FSR and HDR need DirectX 11 with the game's MSAA off.

Get the game: Steam

Install

Customize the settings below, or keep the recommended ones.
Download the package and unpack it into the game's folder, where MaxPayne3.exe is, keeping its folders.
Start the game. The settings are under Settings → Fusion Fix Options, right after Graphics, with a preset selector at the top.

Linux (Proton / Wine)

In Steam, open the game's Properties and set Launch Options to:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" %command%

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The fixes, the presets and every update are open to everyone. Supporters fund the work on new fixes and updates, and get:

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