Deus Ex: New Vision

[z0mbi3]

Disclaimer
First off I really hope this isn't a pearost, I did search first and I couldn't see anything obvious. I apologize if this thread is redundant before it's even started! Anyway on with the good stuff.

The "New Vision" high-res textures mod for Deus Ex went in to public beta in the last couple of days. Apparently it's addressed something like 65% of the textures so far and it also contains a new opengl renderer.

You can download it from:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-new-vision/downloads/deus-ex-new-vision-public-beta

 

[z0mbi3]

Hmmm, it looks about the same as the original really.

It's an 850 meg download. There's bound to be some improvement over the original textures.

 

[z0mbi3]

Right I'm decided on replaying this again.

 

[z0mbi3]

hope they release a Steam compatible version

I know steam can throw a wobbly over file integrity but there's no installer with the texture pack, it's litteraly a copy and paste affair. Might be worth a try anyway.

 

[z0mbi3]

yeah, i suppose

i'll wait until the final release to say faffing about

Yeah fair enough. Just bare in mind the final release won't be for awhile yet.

 

[z0mbi3]

according to the comments for this mod it appears to be an april fool.

That would be a shame if it was.

I wouldn't have posted this if it was an April fool. I assure you it is not one.

I have it installed, and the HR textures really show. While it's not a complete revamp of the game it's certainly a very nice and very welcome addition.

All we've really had is talk about about high res texture packs for this game, with only one small preview pack ever having been released until now. This is huge for the Deus Ex fans and I'd hate to see some of those fans miss out on it because they think it's an April fool.

 

[z0mbi3]

That's good to hear, its one of the best PC Games ever IMHO, nothing more than a graphic overhaul is all that's needed.

Now ... can anyone get it to work with Vista 64 SP1 on a C2D E8*** series, all latest drivers and updates ETC? Even using compatibility mode for XP and Win98 I cant even get the install to finish, in fact using compatibility mode it wont even start installing, so with native Vista It just stops installing at the final hurdle while decompressing files as I recall, tried leaving it at this stage for about an hour one night but no joy.

I really want to finish this Game, even have my save games from when I last played it over a year ago.

This is the GOTY version BTW.

I just installed GOTY addition on Win 7 7068 x64 yesterday and it worked fine. Are you sure it's not something wrong with your disk?

 

[z0mbi3]

It didn't really help though because when I had got it installed, when I tried to play it, it kept asking for a disk (which was inserted) and I couldn't find a no-cd crack to remedy the problem.

C:\DeusEx\System\deusex.ini:

[Engine.Engine]
GameRenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice
AudioDevice=Galaxy.GalaxyAudioSubsystem
NetworkDevice=IpDrv.TcpNetDriver
DemoRecordingDevice=Engine.DemoRecDriver
Console=Engine.Console
Language=int
GameEngine=DeusEx.DeusExGameEngine
EditorEngine=Editor.EditorEngine
WindowedRenderDevice=SoftDrv.SoftwareRenderDevice
RenderDevice=GlideDrv.GlideRenderDevice
DefaultGame=DeusEx.DeusExGameInfo
DefaultServerGame=DeusEx.DeathMatchGame
ViewportManager=WinDrv.WindowsClient
Render=Render.Render
Input=Extension.InputExt
Canvas=Engine.Canvas
Root=DeusEx.DeusExRootWindow
[size=4][B]CdPath=[/B][/size]

You need to change the bit that says CdPath=driveletter to just CdPath=, as shown above. Game won't need the CD after this.

 

[z0mbi3]

Seems like an awful lot of work just to pretty up some textures.

It's litteraly overwrite the old textures with the new ones and edit a config file. There's hardly any work involved

you obviously arent a deux ex fan, but as one of my favourite games of all time do i dare install this and play again or keep my great memories of the game

I took the plunge and started playing again today. You can't kid yourself over the engine, it is over a decade old after all. The thing is the attention to detail in the levels, gameplay,dialogue and overall narrative make it well worth the replay.

I'm just about to rescue Gunter on Liberty Island and I've only taken out two guards (non lethal) .

 

[z0mbi3]

Well, that never worked either, copied all files from CD to a temp folder, went for the install again and same thing, setup stops responding while de-compressing files, the disc is OK because I've just installed it on my laptop that has XP, but I'd rather play it on this machine.

May have to do a dual boot XP Vista install again.

I know it's a bit of messing about but couldn't you share your Deus Ex folder on your laptop with your network and just copy the game files over that way?

I'm not sure why you're having problems tbh, as I say it's working fine here with Win 7

 

[z0mbi3]

Found out some useful stuff if anyone is interested.

To get the CdPath= no cd setting to work you need to instal the 1112fm patch, even if you're already using the GOTY edition that has it preinstalled. After patching setting the CdPath= to show no drive letter allows you to play without the CD and works flawlessly.

Also, it's probably fairly obvious to some of you guys, but I twigged last night that you can actually do some worthwhile tweaks in Deusex.ini to get the visual quality up a bit. I know this might be redundant information for a lot of people but I'll include it here for the sake of completeness anyway.


First off you really should use the texture mod linked in my OP, not only does it have high res textures but it also includes an updated opengl dll that helps with the IQ.

You wan to load Deus Ex up the first time without making any changes to deusex.ini. If this is your first time running the game then you'll want to pick OpenGL as youer renderer, if it isn't your frist time then you need to open deusex.ini up first and find the [Engine.Engine] line and do the following:

[Engine.Engine]
GameRenderDevice=[B]OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice[/B]

After this you can start the game.

From the ingame menus set everything to the highest settings you can and then exit the game.

Now you want to open up deusex.ini and find the following bit:

[WinDrv.WindowsClient]
WindowedViewportX=640
WindowedViewportY=480
WindowedColorBits=32
FullscreenViewportX=[B]1680[/B]
FullscreenViewportY=[B]1050[/B]

It's pretty much self explanatory but the bolded bit is where you can set what resolution you want to use. I've set mine to 1680 x 1050 in here as you can't select that resolution ingame. In the same file you want to find the [OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice] section and add changes your settings to reflect the bolded bits:

[B]UseTrilinear=True[/B]
[B]MaxAnisotropy=16[/B]
SupportsLazyTextures=0
ZRangeHack=False
AAFilterHint=0
NoAATiles=False
[B]NumAASamples=16[/B]
[B]UseAA=True[/B]

The following bit I've nabbed from the widescreen gaming forum with regards to FOVs. You need to open user.ini and find the DesiredFOV= line. This should be set to 75.00000 by default, however you need to change this to reflect your aspect ratio. In my case I've set it to the following, for a 16:10 aspect ratio:

DesiredFOV=85.2812718522

Here are some settings you can use for other aspect ratios:
16:9=91.3154482287
15:9=87.61661884


I think that about sums it up. Hope it's of use to someone!

 

[z0mbi3]

I did, no Joy Its not just the over speed, its the inconstant over speed, in out door area's its like running like a sprinter all the time, in corridors its like running at 200MPH, the game speed really is messed up big time.

I've had another thought though, as well as this GOTY version I also have the standard version, if I can get this to install in Vista on this machine then patch it to latest version it might be OK ... I'll try this later today.

As above you need to force vertical sync to always on in your drivers control panel. I forgot to include this in my other post.