Don't say things like that so loud! You might cause some fanATIc heads to implode from trying to undo you logic!

No problem.

http://webpages.charter.net/dpinch/Bing/When%20I%20see%20an%20Elephant%20fly%20-%20Track%2010.mp3

Perhaps not for Mr Moneybags. i bet you got some of your money *buried* on your property

Me rich? Not!
I get by.

As for buried money........ My brother and I (6-7 years old) were digging for worms to fish with next to my grandparents old barn and found a jar full of old money. My grandma gave each of us $1.00
Never did find out how much was in the jar. My grandma and mom never would tell me. The story was that my grandfather used to hide money from my grandmother because he despised her

As for other hidden money...... I used to do a lot of metal detecting. Sold about $450. worth of silver on ebay a couple years back. I would've doubled my money if I sold today! My single best find was a 14k gold diamond ring (1/2carat).

The "clothing" is actually done on the CPU in Mafia 2 (http://physxinfo.com/news/3628/mafia-ii ... rformance/ )!

The game itself uses 2 cores (easily maxed out if the GPU is powerful enough at low rez), but APEX physx uses only one core. I'm not 100% sure, but it was a bit better optimized in Metro 2033 where it could use more than 1 core. Well, at least in Mafia 2, it's not truly multi-threaded, so I wonder how well a 6-core Corei7 with HT (oc'ed to 4GHz like my i7 920's) could do all of it, if it could run at 30fps on the CPU (with PhysX set to medium) without being multi-threaded!

Only if your PhysX card is fairly old and not powerful enough or if you are using a single card below fermi for 3D & PhysX.

Mafia II uses 4 cores - there are many benchmark analysis's done which shows this. And apparently it uses the cpu for cloth physx *IF* users do not have a dedicated physx card. When adding a dedicated physx card such as a 8800GT ALL physx effects are done on that card and performance improves dramatically.

Here with a core i5 at various in-game settings and also with/without a dedicated gt240 (less powerful than an 8800GT): http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/ha ... ies-6.html

Here with an core i7 same thing: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/ha ... ies-7.html

Here it another analysis with a more powerful card dedicated to all physx calculations: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphi ... formance/2

So something as lowly as a $70 gt240 is faster at calculating physx than a $230 core i7.

Ahh, cool thanks! If I actually owned Mafia 2 and were playing it, I'd definitely know as much about it as you do.. so I stand corrected (ahem)!

(the next page focuses on the CPU and physx performance http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphi ... formance/3 --it scales nicely with the clock (like 20-85% increase from 3.3 GHz to 4.2 GHz, but physx isn't truly multi-threaded on the CPU itself). Another site gave me the similar idea that Mafia 2 uses 2 cores for ordinary stuff, plus 3rd possible core for physx, but now I see that with all physx (Apex too) turned off, it maxes out all 4 cores.

And then they say in the conclusion:
plus more here: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/19216

Dammit when skymtl said that

This makes me really want to play it badly in S3D, but you can see that a single GTX 460 cannot handle it even at 1600x900. I wonder about 1440x900 or even 1280x800 (which is still better than 720p) on my 24" monitor (that can be done @ 120Hz and 140Hz respectively), but it might still need like 1.5GB of RAM if everything is turned on high. BtW, Skymtl should've turned off AA, since it's 2x SSAA duh!