I remember when i built my pc earlier this year and was stuck with a 750ti… needless to say that this game even with my 750ti could actually make use of my 165hz monitor lol
The 750ti isn't a bad card honestly, still can squeeze 60fps 720p with a decent CPU in combo. I used it til sometime in 2019 and got a 1660ti. If I'd have known what was gonna happen with GPUs I would have absolutely spent more on the higher end.
@@z1pbomb I was pretty sad having to pay $900 for a 2080 Ultra card with dual-slot cooling, but the card now sells for north of $1400. So glad I bit the bullet and got it before things went to shit, chip-wise. I also "downgraded" from 4k to a curved 2k monitor, because I cannot see a difference in the resolution and 2k looks drop-dead gorgeous. The Witcher 3 run @ 115fps with everything at very high or Ultra and I am now a believer that these much higher frame rates make the whole game a lot smoother experience.
I wouldn't say criminally underrated...the first 2 games were well received and we can all agree the gameplay of Max Payne 3 is excellent, I'd say the story of 3 is unerrated.
I’m so happy to see people still making videos about Max Payne 3. I’ve only ever played it on PC, and recently got the chance to experience it in 8K on one of the new Samsung QLED TVs, still running smooth as butter. I really only covered gameplay and story in my own video about it, but your technical breakdown was phenomenal. This game ran great at the time and still holds up nearly a decade later! I’d love to see you take a look at the optimization of the Arkham franchise on PC, as I remember always having a difficult time getting them to run on my different configs over the years. Keep up the fantastic work 😁
Memories of me playing Max Payne 3 in the summer of 2012 on my laptop [core 2 duo 2 Ghz, Geforce 9300M, 3GB of Ram], the game would still go 25+ FPS, I remember I even went higher than lowest once and the experience was still decent
Played Max Payne 3 for the first time in 2020, on a 5700 XT + R5 3600. The fact I could do 4K120 maxed out (80-120 fps, no MSAA), I was blown away. One of most optimized games of all time, easily.
I always come back to MP3 every few years. The game has aged like fine wine and being able to see/run it at 4K 120hz now is a real treat. Don't even have to mod anything, it just works and WELL. One of the last games I bought a physical copy of and I'm glad I did.
This year is the 20th anniversary of the 1st Max Payne game & the fact that Rockstar & Remedy haven't made all Max Payne series backwards compatible with Xbox One & Series X still baffles me. Max Payne 3 is definitely an overlooked gem since Rockstar nowadays keeps milking more money on GTA V. A solid game to be honest.
Max Payne 3 still looks phenomenal at native 4k with everything cranked. I'd have no problem thinking it was a 2021 release if I saw it on these settings right now.
Max Payne 3 has always been one of my favorite games, and it has perhaps the most banger soundtrack for a game ever. My first PC was a i5-4570 and a 7970 on a single stick of ram and it ran the game incredibly well. Really enjoyed the video!
I'm almost done with 2 and am getting ready to play this one mostly bc I was younger then and I'm trying out the older games so far this series has not let me down
I was gun-shy after GTA4 (the framerate even on my dual 4870's was unreliable at best), but the footage from MP3 looked so pretty, I had to get it near launch. So glad I did, such a fun and pretty game. You've just reminded me, I need to go back and play it again, so thanks. :)
Played this back in the day on my Xbox 360 and loved it. I later bought it on Steam but haven't played it there yet (even though it was years ago that I bought it). It's a good game with a good story. It really fells like you're playing an action movie.
I knew that it was a good game, but never saw anything about the port itself, thanks for shining a light on this. Good and well optimized game deserve so much more atention than what they get.
I hope you can translate this on google traductor and seeit in the comentary seccion. Amo el formato de tus video y como te enfocas a a hardware de años pasados asi mismo como en juegos perdidos o no tan recordados por la comunidad del pc gaming, me inspiras a crear contenido de este tipo para el habla hispana tqm( means I love you in spanish) amo tu contenido, no t mueras nunca c:
I replayed this game last year, and like you, was impressed with how well it had aged. I have an i7 3770k clocked at 4.4ghz and a GTX 980ti. The game ran great at 1440p and looked fantastic.
@@mattfm101 it depends on your expectations, for 1080p high setting at 60fps I think it can still cut it. I have a 1440p monitor and have to go medium settings with new games to keep 60fps.but even then I can see some dips. I would like to upgrade to something like a 1080 ti or 5700xt but I refuse to pay more then £200. We really should be at that level of price performance by now but this is a crazy world and all the old expectations have changed. The fact a new card like the 6600 xt can costs over £500 is a joke, I'm simply not taking part in the madness. I'd rather give up gaming all together.
@@adriandangelo3029 I use to have one until it died but it was suprisingly capable and I was planning on waiting past the 30 series to upgrade but then the initial pricing was too good to not upgrade... however I waited too long and am stuck with a 1650
After multiple playthroughs, I still can't get enough of this awesome game. Hopefully they will give us in the near future a remaster of it, or even for the whole trilogy
Max Payne 3 is still an amazing game! I've played it through on my pc 4 times in the last few years and still can't get enough of it. Its true the graphics when cranked up still looks amazing by today's' standards. Great to see it getting the love it deserves :D
I remember being hesitant to get this on PC back in the day. I played through it on the 360 and loved it but remembered how poorly optimized GTA IV was, needless to say I've yet to find a computer with a graphics card (even some basic laptops with no discreet graphics) that won't run this game.
@@dyorgewiltonspassos183 gta 4 is an old game that is made to run on old or low end hardware because it cant use a lot of cores so single core performance is better for gta 4 than multicore performence
I remember when I rented this game for Xbox 360 from Redbox. I didn’t know that the current disc couldn’t hold the entire game so when I was half way through the game I got a screen saying “insert disc 2”. I rushed back to a Redbox and couldn’t find any copies of it, I was devastated because I stopped at such a good part, Never got to finish this game unfortunately.
So you've convinced me to test this tommorow on my retro pc , a Pentium 630 , 2GB Ram with Geforce 210 1GB GPU , and I'm sure it would atleast run on it , I'll reply under this comment later how well it ran..😂
This is the game that convinced me to leave IT and become CLEET certified and become an IRL personal bodyguard. Turns out it's really boring and I just drink alot. 🥃
I still only have a GTX 680 so I recently played this as well and it was pretty good. One other game I've played a ton of though, and which I find even more impressive from an optimization stand point, is Metal Gear Solid V. It would be interesting if you made a video of how that runs on really low end hardware.
I use to have that card, it was just a bit too slow for me, I upgraded to a 980ti and , it provided an acceptable amount of performance and saw myself using it for quite a while into the future, however it died. Even though it was good NVIDIA had managed to smash their pricing out of the park with the RTX3080 and I convinced myself it was worth buying brand new. I just didn't convince myself quick enough to pull the trigger before the madness began.
I remember playing it on an OCed Pentium 4 3 Ghz with an 6800 GT 256 MB AGP card and 1 GB RAM, a PC from 2003/2004, back when people were talking nonsense about this game needing 16 GB RAM to run optimally. It actually ran decent 15-30 FPS but the frequent long stutters and loading times were too much, I never finished it. But it definitely ran faster than CSGO on that system on some larger maps back then.
Played quite a bit of it on my laptop back in the day (i7-4712HQ+GTX-850m), and I too was surprised by how smoothly it ran given that 2013's Crysis 3 turned my laptop into a toaster (but it also did look massively better than MP3)
I remember Max Payne 1. Man, that's gotta be some years ago now... and I have been looking for something to play until WoW 9.1.5 dropped (which it did recently, Dohhh!). Yeah, I'll think about checking this out!
You've got to test out Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain! I remember downloading it on my laptop back in the day ( can't remember the specs but I promise you it wasn't anything special ), and being absolutely shocked by how a game that looked as good as it did ran that smoothly.
@@RandomGaminginHD if you do make a GTA trilogy video, will you be using the min specs of the original pc versions? I think you should be comparing your best pc running the remakes against the original's on some ancient dual-core CPU.
This game is so underated its almost painful, I remember getting this game through Gamefly back in 2012 and i had that game for months just playing the story and getting addicted to the multiplayer. I wish the mp was still popular and this game looks amazing in 4k on my 3090 still
This game is cursed for me lol, the first time I played it, I got food poisoning from crap I ate last night and had to get admitted to hospital, second time my PC broke and third time when I finally planned on completing it my results came at that day and I found out that I've flunked in a sub😭. Damn Max Payne 3 scares me now lol
Max Payne 3 FUCK YEAH. Absolutely love this one. I've played through it so many times I've lost count; Even have it both on 360 and PC. Also, I can say without question that it has the best soundtrack I've ever heard in a video game.
I played Max Payne 3 on 11900k/3080 recently. Wow ! Awesome. Very rare game. 100 Percent withstood the test of time. I did get this game on release 2012 running a gtx 570 and i5 2500k, it ran decent at low to med settings. replayed it in 2019 on a 2080ti, and the latter. Every time i replayed it, my thought, this game was way, way ahead of its time. Maxed out on current hardware, you would think this game came out recently. Also, no crashes on replays and ran flawless
You are kidding mate, I finished the game three times already. I wish R* would stop dicking around and release another sequel, 20 years have passed since the first one. Great video btw!
its ironic as hell that one of my favorite youtubers made a video about a game I just starting playing again a few days ago, max payne 3 is great and shows how well a game can be optimized. I run a i7 3770k and a gtx 1050 ti and I run this game at max settings(pun intended) and my frames only go as low as 70 but mostly in the 100 to 150 fps range
Finally some Max Payne 3 love, I pushed my i7-3770k and GTX670 4GB to the limits with it back in the day. Fired it up recently and realised I had collected all the golden gun parts, I must of really been into it back then, damn it gonna replay it after Far Cry 6 now. 😎
Could you please make a video wherein, you list all the best optimized videogames of all time like Tomb Raider 2013 and Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain? I'm looking forward to that as I have no games to play at the moment. Keep it up though, you are simply one of the best tech channels that I've ever watched!
Definitely gonna give this game a try as I just got a pc recently for the first time and always wanted to play it but refused to play it on console cause of the quality of it.
Max Payne 3 is fucking amazing, can't believe you had never played it before! I played it back in the day on launch with my best friend and although it wasn't the greatest Max Payne sequel it is on my top 3 Rockstart games
I played this first on console back in the day but more recently on pc using a pre built gaming pc I had bought off someone. Needless to say on 4GB of ram and an AMD Radeon 390R graphics card I got damn near 100+ FPS. This game can an will run on most systems and it’s BEAUTIFUL
My 960 (2GB) can hit around 120fps at highest 1080p. AF is at x16, I mostly play it with Discord on in the background, so it could probably play better. AA destroys it, but even then it's above 30, closer to 45 most of the time. Love this game though, remember playing it on a 360 ages ago, wasn't my 360, was a family member's. The TV was cheap, it was tiny, bright pink, and the screen cut off the top and bottom of the game so I couldn't see my ammo. Still had fun, despite using a cheap TV that again, wasn't even mine. I also have a 360 copy of my own, but I'd rather play it on PC as it looks amazing on higher settings...
I find it hard to believe they run on the same engine to be honest, such a performance improvement from GTA 4. It really was a turning point for Rockstar games on PC, no real half arsed ports since.
@@Dragonborn-dc4uj I still remember that I run Saint Row 2 smooth (not sure the setting because I still young that time) on my PC Core i3 with Radeon HD 7750.
i think the same about the evil within 1 at least , it has a stunning graphics and atmosphere with some high textures and shaders back then , nonetheless it doesn't require a strong rig ... and the optimisation i remember was great and the framerate was stable more than my financial situation
Putting together a little project at work using a dell optiplex mini tower (930 I think) i3 2120 with SSD running windows 10 pro (fresh install) 8gb ram, and an old AMD HD 5570 1GB GPU. A (redundant, but virtually new) Thermaltake 600w 80+ PSU to round things off. All put together from 95% scrap parts. Fun times 👌 looking forward to the results!
I remember max payne 3 being the first "huge" sized game. Till then the largest game I owned was gta 4 at 14-15 gigs. Max payne 3 was a massive 30 gigs. Edit: oh you did mention the size of the game.
I played Max Payne 1 and 2 back in the day, but 3 also passed me by. It still looks good though, maybe I'll find a copy now and catch up with Mr Payne.
This has changed so much. Games run on a much wider variety of hardware reliably than they did 20 years ago. Thank god, because that was probably the worst part of being a PC gamer and why I was primarily console for much of my life.
The answer is the Rage engine. They tested the waters for it with Table Tennis, then went for it with GTA IV, figured out the rough spots and optimized it for Max Payne 3 and took all of that and more and brought it into Red Dead Redemption and then improved further for GTA 5. If you compare the details in these 4 you can see specific things they fixed. (Edit: forgot about RDR!)
Man this game still looks too good and a masterpiece. I still miss max payne series and Rockstar should develop it further. I played it on HD7750 1Gb at high settings and I loved it
honestly... with the current chip shortage I would love a series covering light weight, stunning looking games... A few I can think of are Dishonored, Max Payne 3, Enslaved , Batman Arkham Asylum, Dirt 3, Dead Space, Torchlight-series etc. There is so much fun to be had with PC games, that you don't necessarily need to look at the latest and greatest. Some games has even aged better than their initial review scores. (since most reviewers review their expectations rather than the game itself).
This game was and still is terribly underrated. Glad people finally realise what a great game this is. Story and gameplay wise. Wish games were still made like this but I guess nowdays all that matters are graphics...
I remember when i built my pc earlier this year and was stuck with a 750ti… needless to say that this game even with my 750ti could actually make use of my 165hz monitor lol
The 750ti isn't a bad card honestly, still can squeeze 60fps 720p with a decent CPU in combo. I used it til sometime in 2019 and got a 1660ti. If I'd have known what was gonna happen with GPUs I would have absolutely spent more on the higher end.
@@z1pbomb I was pretty sad having to pay $900 for a 2080 Ultra card with dual-slot cooling, but the card now sells for north of $1400. So glad I bit the bullet and got it before things went to shit, chip-wise. I also "downgraded" from 4k to a curved 2k monitor, because I cannot see a difference in the resolution and 2k looks drop-dead gorgeous. The Witcher 3 run @ 115fps with everything at very high or Ultra and I am now a believer that these much higher frame rates make the whole game a lot smoother experience.
I was stuck with one too haha it actually ran every game I threw at it fine tbh
@@trog69 Nice flex
Did your 750ti support 165hz? I thought the max was 144?
They need to make a new Max Payne game already. This series is criminally underrated
Not needed; Max got his happy ending in this one. Leave the legend to kick back and enjoy himself.
@@GoldenGyroBalls exactly, not sure why fans want every game to never end.
I wouldn't say criminally underrated...the first 2 games were well received and we can all agree the gameplay of Max Payne 3 is excellent, I'd say the story of 3 is unerrated.
I want more games that have the same gunplay, tho they shouldn't make another max payne
@@GoldenGyroBalls they can make a prequel to the first game and make it about when max was a rookie cop in new york
I’m so happy to see people still making videos about Max Payne 3. I’ve only ever played it on PC, and recently got the chance to experience it in 8K on one of the new Samsung QLED TVs, still running smooth as butter. I really only covered gameplay and story in my own video about it, but your technical breakdown was phenomenal. This game ran great at the time and still holds up nearly a decade later! I’d love to see you take a look at the optimization of the Arkham franchise on PC, as I remember always having a difficult time getting them to run on my different configs over the years. Keep up the fantastic work 😁
First 2 were okeish, but mostly optimised for Nvidia. Oeigins and Arkham Knight were shit optimized.
One of my favorite games for sure :DD
Multiplayer is still alive on PC, see u on that
Memories of me playing Max Payne 3 in the summer of 2012 on my laptop [core 2 duo 2 Ghz, Geforce 9300M, 3GB of Ram], the game would still go 25+ FPS, I remember I even went higher than lowest once and the experience was still decent
Yeah I also remember playing it on my laptop (i7-2670QM 8GB GeForce GT540M 2GB) back in the day those were good times
I recently played it again, what a fantastic game, so good and well optimized. It even looks really good for a 2012 game.
It was one of the most high-end AAA games of 2012, and it looked even better on PC.
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I've watched all your videos since you upgraded to the i5 4460, keep up the good work! You're the first channel I activated notifications for
Thanks :)
Played Max Payne 3 for the first time in 2020, on a 5700 XT + R5 3600.
The fact I could do 4K120 maxed out (80-120 fps, no MSAA), I was blown away.
One of most optimized games of all time, easily.
I always come back to MP3 every few years. The game has aged like fine wine and being able to see/run it at 4K 120hz now is a real treat. Don't even have to mod anything, it just works and WELL.
One of the last games I bought a physical copy of and I'm glad I did.
Big props to being one of the few people that make a video on MP3 and put a flashing lights warning!
This year is the 20th anniversary of the 1st Max Payne game & the fact that Rockstar & Remedy haven't made all Max Payne series backwards compatible with Xbox One & Series X still baffles me. Max Payne 3 is definitely an overlooked gem since Rockstar nowadays keeps milking more money on GTA V. A solid game to be honest.
Thank you! Take two is the worst. The max Payne franchise is one of the most influential in all of games.
I just played through Max Payne 3 recently. All in one night. Great game, great actors and a great soundtrack.
Max Payne 3 still looks phenomenal at native 4k with everything cranked. I'd have no problem thinking it was a 2021 release if I saw it on these settings right now.
Max Payne 3 has always been one of my favorite games, and it has perhaps the most banger soundtrack for a game ever. My first PC was a i5-4570 and a 7970 on a single stick of ram and it ran the game incredibly well. Really enjoyed the video!
Hotline miami's ost is fire aswell
What's incredible is that the same pc can even run games in 2021 decently.
I'm almost done with 2 and am getting ready to play this one mostly bc I was younger then and I'm trying out the older games so far this series has not let me down
Dude you and Tech Yes City ROCK my boat, I love your content. Gonna reinstall this gem and replay it. Thank u!!!!
Thanks for watching :)
I was gun-shy after GTA4 (the framerate even on my dual 4870's was unreliable at best), but the footage from MP3 looked so pretty, I had to get it near launch. So glad I did, such a fun and pretty game. You've just reminded me, I need to go back and play it again, so thanks. :)
Played this back in the day on my Xbox 360 and loved it. I later bought it on Steam but haven't played it there yet (even though it was years ago that I bought it). It's a good game with a good story. It really fells like you're playing an action movie.
I knew that it was a good game, but never saw anything about the port itself, thanks for shining a light on this. Good and well optimized game deserve so much more atention than what they get.
Hardcore Max Payne fanatic here. Happy to see you make a Max Payne 3 video. Keep more of em coming
Thanks for showcasing games as well as hardware- you were spot on about Driver Parallel Lines, and I’m now eager to add this.
I hope you can translate this on google traductor and seeit in the comentary seccion.
Amo el formato de tus video y como te enfocas a a hardware de años pasados asi mismo como en juegos perdidos o no tan recordados por la comunidad del pc gaming, me inspiras a crear contenido de este tipo para el habla hispana tqm( means I love you in spanish) amo tu contenido, no t mueras nunca c:
I replayed this game last year, and like you, was impressed with how well it had aged. I have an i7 3770k clocked at 4.4ghz and a GTX 980ti. The game ran great at 1440p and looked fantastic.
How's that card holding up with new games?
@@mattfm101 it depends on your expectations, for 1080p high setting at 60fps I think it can still cut it. I have a 1440p monitor and have to go medium settings with new games to keep 60fps.but even then I can see some dips. I would like to upgrade to something like a 1080 ti or 5700xt but I refuse to pay more then £200. We really should be at that level of price performance by now but this is a crazy world and all the old expectations have changed. The fact a new card like the 6600 xt can costs over £500 is a joke, I'm simply not taking part in the madness. I'd rather give up gaming all together.
That 980ti is a bit overkill for Max Payne I maxed out back in the day with a 560 ti xD
@@adriandangelo3029 I use to have one until it died but it was suprisingly capable and I was planning on waiting past the 30 series to upgrade but then the initial pricing was too good to not upgrade... however I waited too long and am stuck with a 1650
Max Payne 2 was one of my favourite games when I was younger, that was an awesome era of PC gaming.
That, Far Cry 1 & F.E.A.R
After multiple playthroughs, I still can't get enough of this awesome game. Hopefully they will give us in the near future a remaster of it, or even for the whole trilogy
Got this game as one of my two free ones for pre-ordering RDR2 and I absolutely loved it. Best shooter game I've ever played.
Gets even better on harder difficulties IMO. Give it a go!
@@danielcook8035 will do!
An underrated classic for sure, great channel my friend
Max Payne needs to be remastered
They remastered gta 3, vice city and san andreas recently... Maybe they will do the same for MP 1 & 2
Or just simple ports to new gen with higher resolution
No need for remaster after that definitive edition crap
I had a GT 520 when this game launched, i was amazed with how well it ran, i could get 60 fps at mid-high settings at 720p.
Same here bro. Here in India I purchased the special edition with SRK signature on it. I still have the box with me! 🤩🤩
Game has a brilliant soundtrack too, let’s not forget that 😉 MP3 is a hidden gem.
Max Payne 3 is still an amazing game! I've played it through on my pc 4 times in the last few years and still can't get enough of it. Its true the graphics when cranked up still looks amazing by today's' standards. Great to see it getting the love it deserves :D
I remember being hesitant to get this on PC back in the day. I played through it on the 360 and loved it but remembered how poorly optimized GTA IV was, needless to say I've yet to find a computer with a graphics card (even some basic laptops with no discreet graphics) that won't run this game.
Yeah it’s a great game to benchmark old cards with too!
That's weird, everybody says that GTA IV is unoptimized but I play GTA 4 at a better fps than when playing Max Payne on minimum
@@dyorgewiltonspassos183 That's actually strange. Even my RTX 2080 Super build has issues with GTA IV
@@hippokrampus2838 tf? I play on a I3 5005u 4gb ram Intel hd graphics 5500
@@dyorgewiltonspassos183 gta 4 is an old game that is made to run on old or low end hardware because it cant use a lot of cores so single core performance is better for gta 4 than multicore performence
I remember when I rented this game for Xbox 360 from Redbox. I didn’t know that the current disc couldn’t hold the entire game so when I was half way through the game I got a screen saying “insert disc 2”. I rushed back to a Redbox and couldn’t find any copies of it, I was devastated because I stopped at such a good part, Never got to finish this game unfortunately.
just when i got this game you upload a video about it, amazing!
So you've convinced me to test this tommorow on my retro pc , a Pentium 630 , 2GB Ram with Geforce 210 1GB GPU , and I'm sure it would atleast run on it , I'll reply under this comment later how well it ran..😂
Optimized, good looking, quality made games that are fun to play are like unicorns nowdays, good luck finding one.
This is the game that convinced me to leave IT and become CLEET certified and become an IRL personal bodyguard.
Turns out it's really boring and I just drink alot.
🥃
I still only have a GTX 680 so I recently played this as well and it was pretty good. One other game I've played a ton of though, and which I find even more impressive from an optimization stand point, is Metal Gear Solid V. It would be interesting if you made a video of how that runs on really low end hardware.
I use to have that card, it was just a bit too slow for me, I upgraded to a 980ti and , it provided an acceptable amount of performance and saw myself using it for quite a while into the future, however it died. Even though it was good NVIDIA had managed to smash their pricing out of the park with the RTX3080 and I convinced myself it was worth buying brand new. I just didn't convince myself quick enough to pull the trigger before the madness began.
Real OG out here. That GPU was the dream back then. I still want one
With GTX 660 I was able to play GTA 5 maxed out... I miss that card, got fried 🥺
Oh, I remember enjoying it on Intel Pentium 2020m! The game's that well optimized even the input lag is not noticeable on the framerates below 60
damn i beat and replayed the first max payne the day you released this. good video!
I remember playing it on an OCed Pentium 4 3 Ghz with an 6800 GT 256 MB AGP card and 1 GB RAM, a PC from 2003/2004, back when people were talking nonsense about this game needing 16 GB RAM to run optimally. It actually ran decent 15-30 FPS but the frequent long stutters and loading times were too much, I never finished it. But it definitely ran faster than CSGO on that system on some larger maps back then.
I just beat this game yesterday :). Ran well for my 3070 mobile. Can't wait to replay this on Steam Deck.
Can you get 144 fps with that ?
@@dimaz3 Cutscenes are fixed to 30 fps but otherwise I’m getting a consistent 165Hz.
@@samc8278 Thanks , that's some good performance. Time to look for a copy!
Played quite a bit of it on my laptop back in the day (i7-4712HQ+GTX-850m), and I too was surprised by how smoothly it ran given that 2013's Crysis 3 turned my laptop into a toaster (but it also did look massively better than MP3)
I remember Max Payne 1. Man, that's gotta be some years ago now... and I have been looking for something to play until WoW 9.1.5 dropped (which it did recently, Dohhh!). Yeah, I'll think about checking this out!
Man I didn't expect Max Payne 3! I remember playing the first two games and loving it!
You've got to test out Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain! I remember downloading it on my laptop back in the day ( can't remember the specs but I promise you it wasn't anything special ), and being absolutely shocked by how a game that looked as good as it did ran that smoothly.
Can't wait to play the GTA Trilogy Remaster next week! Hopefully you cover that in a video some time!
Yeah I’ll be doing a minimum specs pc :)
@@RandomGaminginHD if you do make a GTA trilogy video, will you be using the min specs of the original pc versions? I think you should be comparing your best pc running the remakes against the original's on some ancient dual-core CPU.
This game is so underated its almost painful, I remember getting this game through Gamefly back in 2012 and i had that game for months just playing the story and getting addicted to the multiplayer. I wish the mp was still popular and this game looks amazing in 4k on my 3090 still
i love this game, i remember my old built pc with GTX 750 1gb Running 100+fps on high settings.
Played it on PS3, enjoyed my time with it
This game is cursed for me lol, the first time I played it, I got food poisoning from crap I ate last night and had to get admitted to hospital, second time my PC broke and third time when I finally planned on completing it my results came at that day and I found out that I've flunked in a sub😭. Damn Max Payne 3 scares me now lol
love the videos, Trying to make some Benchmark videos myself.
Keep it up, Really informative and entertaining.
daaamn that's some good optimization, running only on 256mb vram and being actually playable in 2012 is crazy
Played this with an A6 7480k. Great experience, 30+ fps average and I especially liked the setting, since I'm brazilian hahahahaha
Awesome :)
I first played this game on a 4th gen i3, 4GB ram, no gpu system....it ran way better then I expected!
Max Payne 3 FUCK YEAH. Absolutely love this one. I've played through it so many times I've lost count; Even have it both on 360 and PC. Also, I can say without question that it has the best soundtrack I've ever heard in a video game.
I played Max Payne 3 on 11900k/3080 recently. Wow ! Awesome. Very rare game. 100 Percent withstood the test of time. I did get this game on release 2012 running a gtx 570 and i5 2500k, it ran decent at low to med settings. replayed it in 2019 on a 2080ti, and the latter. Every time i replayed it, my thought, this game was way, way ahead of its time. Maxed out on current hardware, you would think this game came out recently. Also, no crashes on replays and ran flawless
Always love seeing amazingly well optimized games
You are kidding mate, I finished the game three times already. I wish R* would stop dicking around and release another sequel, 20 years have passed since the first one. Great video btw!
its ironic as hell that one of my favorite youtubers made a video about a game I just starting playing again a few days ago, max payne 3 is great and shows how well a game can be optimized.
I run a i7 3770k and a gtx 1050 ti and I run this game at max settings(pun intended) and my frames only go as low as 70 but mostly in the 100 to 150 fps range
Finally some Max Payne 3 love, I pushed my i7-3770k and GTX670 4GB to the limits with it back in the day. Fired it up recently and realised I had collected all the golden gun parts, I must of really been into it back then, damn it gonna replay it after Far Cry 6 now. 😎
just picked it up because of you. cant wait to play it on my best buy hp envy prebuilt
only added ram so i have 16gb
Could you please make a video wherein, you list all the best optimized videogames of all time like Tomb Raider 2013 and Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain? I'm looking forward to that as I have no games to play at the moment. Keep it up though, you are simply one of the best tech channels that I've ever watched!
From personal experience i can say Forza Horizon 4 and hopefully forza horizon 5, Gta v, Far Cry 5, Mad max, warframe, Destiny 2
Definitely gonna give this game a try as I just got a pc recently for the first time and always wanted to play it but refused to play it on console cause of the quality of it.
Its great to see my favourite game get more love 💕. Max Payne for life
This was also one of the few games that looked amazing in 3dvision.
Max Payne 3 is fucking amazing, can't believe you had never played it before!
I played it back in the day on launch with my best friend and although it wasn't the greatest Max Payne sequel it is on my top 3 Rockstart games
I played this first on console back in the day but more recently on pc using a pre built gaming pc I had bought off someone. Needless to say on 4GB of ram and an AMD Radeon 390R graphics card I got damn near 100+ FPS. This game can an will run on most systems and it’s BEAUTIFUL
My 960 (2GB) can hit around 120fps at highest 1080p.
AF is at x16, I mostly play it with Discord on in the background, so it could probably play better.
AA destroys it, but even then it's above 30, closer to 45 most of the time.
Love this game though, remember playing it on a 360 ages ago, wasn't my 360, was a family member's.
The TV was cheap, it was tiny, bright pink, and the screen cut off the top and bottom of the game so I couldn't see my ammo.
Still had fun, despite using a cheap TV that again, wasn't even mine.
I also have a 360 copy of my own, but I'd rather play it on PC as it looks amazing on higher settings...
Downloading it at the moment, had it sittin in my Steam Library for ages.
Test distance. One of the best optimized games to exist. And one hell of a car racing platformer horror puzzle game.
Im liking the videos recently going back in time
I remembered i didnt finish max payne 3 lol i ll go back and play it asap
Definitely an improvement over GTA 4.
I find it hard to believe they run on the same engine to be honest, such a performance improvement from GTA 4. It really was a turning point for Rockstar games on PC, no real half arsed ports since.
@@shodan2958 At least GTA 4 was a better port than Saints Row 2.
@@Dragonborn-dc4uj I still remember that I run Saint Row 2 smooth (not sure the setting because I still young that time) on my PC Core i3 with Radeon HD 7750.
@@azraeihalim Yes it may run fine on hardware of the day, but even with a 3090 I don’t think you can max the game out.
@@Dragonborn-dc4uj I like how rockstar just focused on anti piracy then failed hard instead of optimizating the game for PC port
Can't believe it's that old. Great game.
i think the same about the evil within 1 at least , it has a stunning graphics and atmosphere with some high textures and shaders back then , nonetheless it doesn't require a strong rig ... and the optimisation i remember was great and the framerate was stable more than my financial situation
Thanks for the testing never played max pain 3 but now im sure i can run it.
Putting together a little project at work using a dell optiplex mini tower (930 I think) i3 2120 with SSD running windows 10 pro (fresh install) 8gb ram, and an old AMD HD 5570 1GB GPU. A (redundant, but virtually new) Thermaltake 600w 80+ PSU to round things off. All put together from 95% scrap parts. Fun times 👌 looking forward to the results!
I played the game on Max settings on an Intel Core 2 Duo, GT 520 2GB on 720p back in 2012. This game defined optimization
This Looks Like a pretty good Game for the Steam Deck, I will definetly will keep an eye on This Game until my preorder can be fullfilled👌
I like these videos, the Rage, and Far Cry videos were good too.
I remember max payne 3 being the first "huge" sized game. Till then the largest game I owned was gta 4 at 14-15 gigs.
Max payne 3 was a massive 30 gigs.
Edit: oh you did mention the size of the game.
Back when Rockstar actually made games. Seems like so long ago now. Midnight Club, Max Payne...good times. I remember playing this when it came out.
I played Max Payne 1 and 2 back in the day, but 3 also passed me by. It still looks good though, maybe I'll find a copy now and catch up with Mr Payne.
This has changed so much. Games run on a much wider variety of hardware reliably than they did 20 years ago. Thank god, because that was probably the worst part of being a PC gamer and why I was primarily console for much of my life.
I played this, but never got past the first stage for some reason. I think I'm gonna have to revisit this one again. Looks good
Also, doom and doom eternal are really well optimized and will run on anything modernish
Would really like to see a Max Payne reboot franchise!! These games were awesome!!!
I remember playing it on Pentium laptop with intel hd graphics, mass effect 2-3 also well optimized and Devil may cry 4 resident evil series
Played this game not to long ago on my 1060 4k@60 high, great game and performance for sure
The answer is the Rage engine. They tested the waters for it with Table Tennis, then went for it with GTA IV, figured out the rough spots and optimized it for Max Payne 3 and took all of that and more and brought it into Red Dead Redemption and then improved further for GTA 5. If you compare the details in these 4 you can see specific things they fixed.
(Edit: forgot about RDR!)
played this at launch. beat it like 4 5 times still love it
Man this game still looks too good and a masterpiece. I still miss max payne series and Rockstar should develop it further. I played it on HD7750 1Gb at high settings and I loved it
Great video as ever!
honestly... with the current chip shortage I would love a series covering light weight, stunning looking games... A few I can think of are Dishonored, Max Payne 3, Enslaved , Batman Arkham Asylum, Dirt 3, Dead Space, Torchlight-series etc. There is so much fun to be had with PC games, that you don't necessarily need to look at the latest and greatest. Some games has even aged better than their initial review scores. (since most reviewers review their expectations rather than the game itself).
Codemasters have always had the most optimized games in the market. DiRT, Grid, you name 'em...
This game was and still is terribly underrated. Glad people finally realise what a great game this is. Story and gameplay wise.
Wish games were still made like this but I guess nowdays all that matters are graphics...
Fabulous game that really shines with a mouse and keyboard precision.
Its Max Payne Download time now. Even I missed playing MP-3 at that time but played 1 and 2.
Max Payne 3 is the only (big) game I play on my RX 570 at 4k with most settings maxed out. It looks stunning. Hard to believe it's 10 years old game.
I was running this on a HD 6570 at 1080p medium 30fps just the other night. Still looked great!
I like your bad puns, please never be sorry for making bad puns
In what cave have I been hiding that I didn't bother to check Max Payne. Well, looks like I'll have the pleasure to play this now