Max Payne 3

What works

• Story
• Arcade
• Multiplayer
• Social Club (Rockstar) Overlay

What does not

• DX9/DX10
  • Shadows visible through walls.
  • White dots.
  • Trivial and Minor graphical issues differing from chapter to chapter.
• DX10.1
  • MSAA - Everything is black.
• DX11
  • Tessellation - Character models are invisible.
• General
  • Audio stuttering and noise during pre-rendered cutscenes.
• Water - Shadow / Rendering issues.
• Cursor hard stops in a direction if using a multi-monitor setup.
• Game occasionally crashes (3 times in a full playthrough - 10 Hours).
• Game occasionally crashes when exiting (4 times in ~30 exits).
• First time login to the Rockstar Social Club can be difficulty because the game renders at 800x600 and settings cannot be change prior to login in.

Imgur Album of mentioned issues: https://imgur.com/a/tYS13

Workarounds

• Cursor issue can be fixed by emulating a virtual desktop (winecfg -> Graphics -> Emulate virtual desktop).
• Setting the Width and Height resolution in the graphics.xml can help with first login into the Rockstar Social Club.

What was not tested

* Store

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

This game can be played from start to finish with only minor inconveniences.