This includes saves at the closest point to the end of each level. These are useful for practicing save glitching into the next level or making an IL save for the next level with the weapon of your choice already in hand. There are some chapters that have saves both with and without the Sawed-Off Shotgun. All of these saves have max ammo, guns, painkillers, health, and bullet time. To use these saves, you need to drop them into your Max Payne Savegames folder. If you're on Windows and using the Steam version, this folder should be located on your C: drive in the Documents folder. You also need to change the name of the savegame you want to use to "savegame" and then a number between 003 and 012. The extra zeroes are necessary. Alternatively, you can use the Rename Savegames tool to automatically rename savegames to the proper format.

End Level Saves

This mod reduces the amount of flashing in the game, such as painkiller flashes, damage flashes and flashes in Max Payne's house (Prologue) which may be important for flash-sensitive players. 

To download from Google Drive, click "File" in the upper left corner you can then click Download (Ctrl+D).

To install, simply excract the zip archive into your Max Payne folder where the .exe file is. Then launch the game and click "Choose customized game" in the bottom menu and select Flashing removal.

Flashing removal

This includes saves for the PC version at the start of the Part 1 Prologue for each of the three full game difficulties that we run (Fugitive, Dead on Arrival, and New York Minute). This also includes saves at the start of each individual level with max ammo, guns, painkillers, health, and bullet time.

To use these saves, you need to drop them into your Max Payne Savegames folder. If you're on Windows and using the Steam version, this folder should be located on your C: drive in the Documents folder. You also need to change the name of the savegame you want to use to "savegame" and then a number between 003 and 012. The extra zeroes are necessary. Alternatively, you can use the Rename Savegames tool to automatically rename savegames to the proper format.

Full Game & Individual Level Saves

This plugin for Riva Tuner allows you to have 8 hotkeys for switching FPS instead of 4. Thanks to GTA: TLaD community for this file. Make sure you have the latest version of Riva Tuner if you use this plugin otherwise it might crash (at the moment this resource is created, the latest version is 7.3.6)

Description:

"Tool and description credits: @Gogsi123

A modded version of the HotkeyHandler plugin for RTSS that doubles the number of available "profile modifiers". This means that you can have up to 8 fps binds after you install it.

Installation instructions: Stop Rivatuner if it's running. Download the file from this post **(rename it back to HotkeyHandler.dll)** and place it in your *<RTTS install directory>\Plugins\Client* (probably *C:\Program Files\Rivatuner Statistics Server\Plugins\Client*). You can also backup the old HotkeyHandler.dll in case this doesn't work for some reason. Start Rivatuner and in Setup->Plugins->HotkeyHandler.dll you should now have 8 profiles.

If you update Rivatuner, you'll most likely have to replace .dll file again."

Link to the original recourse: https://www.speedrun.com/gtatlad/resources/quqxp



HotkeyHandler.dll with 8 hotkeys for Riva Tuner

A small mod for practicing different chapters. It allows you to load any chapter on any difficulty from the main menu. Also gives Max all weapons unless it's a level where your weapons are taken away from you.

How to use: unpack the zip archive and put the .mpm file into your Max Payne folder (i.e. where MaxPayne.exe is located). Run the game launcher and choose "Level selector (advanced)" from the "Choose customized game" menu at the bottom of the launcher window. To run the game without the mod, choose <none selected> in that window.

Warning: this mod can only be used for practice. Do not speedrun the game with this mod enabled otherwise your run might be rejected for using modified game files.

upd 12 Nov 2025: added 4 more slots for savegames

Level selector

You can activate this autosplitter through the edit splits window (which is recommended), or you can download it from here.

If you download this from here, you'll have to add a scriptable autosplitter component to your LiveSplit layout, change the path of the autosplitter file to the location of this file, and ensure that the autosplitter is deactivated in the edit splits window.  With the default settings, this autosplitter will time Fugitive and Dead on Arrival full game runs properly. However, in the settings for this autosplitter there are options for timing New York Minute runs and individual level runs.

Max Payne Autosplitter

Max Payne Load Remover (Old)

This is a patch collection you might need to run Max Payne on modern systems.



- Startup hang patch - fixes an error when the game launcher doesn't pop up;

- JPEG error patch - fixes "Corrupt JPEG data" error that happens on AMD or Intel processors;

- Sound Patch v1.12 - restores some of the game audio which sometimes is lost on Steam version;

- Widescreen fix - makes the game not look stretched on widescreen monitors;

- Also there's a file that fixes a problem when your laptop doesn't recognize your actual graphics card (without it, the game will only recognize the built-in graphics card).



Installation:

Simply put the files of the necessary patch into the game folder. Create backups if necessary. 

For sound patch, run MaxBatch.bat in the game folder, type "C" and press Enter. The patch will do the rest of the work.



If you get your anti-virus or Windows defender pissed when downloading these files (for example, d3d8.dll file), turn it off temporarily and add the file to exceptions.

Patch collection to run Max Payne on modern systems



## Installation

If you have widescreenfix installed, simply extract the files **MaxPayne.Binds.asi** and **MaxPayne.Binds.ini** into the game folder. Or install [https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases/download/Win32-latest/d3d8-Win32.zip](https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases/download/Win32-latest/d3d8-Win32.zip "https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases/download/Win32-latest/d3d8-Win32.zip")

## Configuration

You can bind your buttons in the file **MaxPayne.Binds.ini** (default Z to save and X to load). Notice that F5 and F9 will also work [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/inputdev/virtual-key-codes](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/inputdev/virtual-key-codes "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/inputdev/virtual-key-codes")

Rebind quicksave / quickload keys

This tool might be useful for those who can't make the .asi file work for some reason, or if you don't want to install Widescreen fix. It's a simple AHK script that remaps F5 to z and F9 to x (by deafult). You must install AHK before using this script. You can download AHK here: https://www.autohotkey.com/

AHK version 2.0 is recommended, but you can probably use version 1.1 as well (I did not test it though).

How to use the script: download the zip archive by clicking the red button below, unpack the zip archive to any folder you want then just run the script by double clicking the .ahk file. You will see a green ahk icon appear in your system tray. After you are done playing, right click that icon and select Exit.

If you want to have different buttons responsible for quick save / load (instead of z and x), you can right click the .ahk file and open it with any text editor (Notepad or WordPad, or Notepad++ if you have it installed). Change z or x to any button you want, you can find the list of button names here: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v2/KeyList.htm

Rebind quicksave / quickload keys (Alternative)

This is for Windows Operating Systems only. This batch file will rename savegames into the proper format automatically so they can be read and loaded by Max Payne and Max Payne 2. You can choose to rename savegames into the autosave and quicksave slots if you want, but this behavior is disabled by default. There is a Read Me inside the .zip file that contains more information.

Rename Savegames

Splits with hints for the loading screens

Superjump Practice Saves

This file will edit the Max Payne registry and unlock all difficulty modes from the beginning. Just run the file and accept any confirmation boxes. (This file will not harm your PC in any way and does not contain any viruses. If you want to see exactly what it does before running it, you can open it in any text editor and you will be able to see the code inside.)

Credit to Mattmatt for making this for Max Payne 2, which I've shamelessly stolen and adapted very slightly for this game.

Unlock All Difficulties

The purpose of these files (namely, MaxPaynePatch.asi) is to allow for alt tabbing without pausing the game while not touching anything related to the widescreen performance.

Installation: exctrat the zip archive into the game folder where MaxPayne.exe is.

Widescreen fix without fixing widescreen

zoton2

JOEdrinksBEER

onehundredpercentass

Endurance

liz4rdx

Max Payne

The American Dream Prologue

Angel of Death

Pain and Suffering

Android

Milo5

hans_fm17

Fugitive

Dead on Arrival

New York Minute

PlayStation

Xbox

Mobile (No Controller)

Touch Controls

Controller

Other

Mobile (Controller)

All runs must be played on the Fugitive difficulty.

All runs must be done on the Dead on Arrival difficulty.

Select the difficulty that you played on.

Difficulty

The game version: Mobile (No Controller), Mobile (Controller), PC, PlayStation, or Xbox

Name	Manager
Flashing removal von onehundredpercentass	onehundredpercentass 2 months ago
HotkeyHandler.dll with 8 hotkeys for Riva Tuner von onehundredpercentass	onehundredpercentass 10 months ago
Level selector von onehundredpercentass	onehundredpercentass 11 months ago
Max Payne Autosplitter von Endurance	Endurance 1 year ago
Max Payne Load Remover (Old) von zoton2	JOEdrinksBEER 9 years ago
Rename Savegames von Endurance	Endurance 3 years ago
Unlock All Difficulties von Endurance	Endurance 3 years ago

Name	Manager
End Level Saves von Endurance	Endurance 3 years ago
Full Game & Individual Level Saves von Endurance	Endurance 1 year ago
Superjump Practice Saves von Endurance	Endurance 3 years ago

Name	Manager
Patch collection to run Max Payne on modern systems von onehundredpercentass	onehundredpercentass 1 year ago
Rebind quicksave / quickload keys von liz4rdx	liz4rdx 2 years ago
Rebind quicksave / quickload keys (Alternative) von onehundredpercentass	onehundredpercentass 1 year ago
Widescreen fix without fixing widescreen von LOM	onehundredpercentass 5 months ago