*****Official Deus Ex 3: Human Revolution discussion thread*****

Shamikebab said:
Eighty six hours??? What the **** were you doing?
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EVERYTHING! Totally immersed in it for weeks, I replayed a few of the set pieces a few times and did a few of the same things from a few different angles and I replayed the boss fights since I killed them all apart from the second one first time (on normal difficulty). Amazing game, even better than Portal 2 for me.
 
Oh and I hacked everything in the game apart from the PCs in the police station but I'll try to find a way to do that next time. Best hacking mini-game I've come across too, although a little bit too easy, I never even upgraded the fortify augments.
 
Rezident said:
Anyone play the DLC? Was going to do a replay but the DLC might be good.
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The DLC is pretty good i'd say, lots of tight CQC corridor running with some big open areas, vent shafts and plenty of baddies. though while i did enjoy it and finished it in 4hrs on Deus Ex difficulty with non-lethal takedowns it did seem to lack a little something, especially at the start.

If you can get it elsewhere i would say it's a worthwhile buy and it does fill in a few gaps in the main story. Also looks better :)
 
Got this (and Dirt 3!) as a freebie with a new 6870 and I am impressed ... felt like Deja Vu back from the original which I played through on release way back.

I would not have bothered with DE HR after I quit with Invisible War tbh but I am getting back into the swing of things now and the game is very good .. I might actually finish this one lol !

It feels very familiar - I have a few gripes, mostly I don't go with the highlighted objects, that's just for helping kiddies play the game surely!
 
I actually didn't mind the highlighted objects, I know it makes it all a bit Fisher Price but I think it just reduces the amount of time spent aimlessly searching around. Kinda like holding down the alt key in some RPG games to highlight loot. The purists may not like it but for me the real beauty of games like Deus Ex isn't lost, you still have all the plot, characterisations, different approaches, choices to make etc.

I actually think UI enhancements such as this, objective markers etc are things that modern games bring to the table that help to make games more accessible compared to 10+ years ago when you could often find yourself spending 20mins aimlessly wandering around looking for an item, doorway, trigger-point or whatever, adding nothing to the overall game experience with the possible exception of 'exploration'. In my book exploration means taking a look in an area anyway, not treading every board 5 times over while spamming the interact key.
 
Question: when Jensen gets in that LEO shuttle and gets launched at Panchaea, its parachutes fail and he plunges into the icy oceans depths. How in God's name could he possibly have survived that? Not only did he survive the crash, he apparently managed to get out, swim through the crazy cold water and climb onto the pier. Even with augs, that crash and that swim should have killed him.

Edit: and I just completed the game without killing a single soul, and didn't get the pacifist achievement.
 
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Just completed in 44 hours on normal level with 25/49 achi and the first two DLCs installed (the cheap ones). Going to restart on hardest level and go as stealthy as I can and get the missing link too.

Great game and like others I'm tempted to re-start original DE. :)
 
WOOT WOOT, my free copy has shipped. Should be here tomorrow (I hope)!
Word cannot describe how much I want to play. I've just built my pc and this is the 1st game to get back into for best part of a year.
 
Question... is anyone else (besides me) still having CTD problems with this game??? Totally random, could be 30 seconds, or after an hour+ !!!

I'm as sure as I can be that my PC's healthy (been building em for 20+ years) and everything else in the last 4/5 months has played fine without the slightest hiccup (EG. Witcher 2, Portal 2, BFBC2, Crysis 2, COH etc. etc.). It's not like DX HR is even that demanding a game(at least on my system).

It's via STEAM, so obviously patched and I even tried finally moving from Nvidia drivers 275.33 to the latest to see if it made any difference. And I've been holding off updating the graphics drivers as so many people say the 285.62 drivers are rubbish. Still no difference!

Latest thing I've tried is to delete the executable and let STEAM re-download it. Suppose I could try it without the DX11 features.

Direct X up-to-date and so is everything else! And it's not an OC problem on the graphics card, as this game never breaks 60% utilisation on the graphics card and I don't think I've seen over 55C on it yet with this game. Plus it will loop as many hours in the most strenuous graphics test that you can throw at it (showing 99% utilisation on the graphics card) and not miss a beat.

I'm starting to run out of ideas.


Any suggestions??????
 
I believe it is a bug with certain Nvidia GPUs. For example some 560 Ti OC users reported the same problem, and I have had the same issue with my 570. Turns out it is not the overclock as such, but more the voltages. Once I put my 570 to default clock and volts it stopped crashing.

Hope this helps.:)
 
Secret_Window said:
I believe it is a bug with certain Nvidia GPUs. For example some 560 Ti OC users reported the same problem, and I have had the same issue with my 570. Turns out it is not the overclock as such, but more the voltages. Once I put my 570 to default clock and volts it stopped crashing.

Hope this helps.:)
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Thanks... but not convinced in my case. If the voltage if too low for the OC on the card (can even apply at stock speeds!) then this can cause instability in graphically intensive applications (EG. games). Basically as you say.... an increase in voltage can sort this. This is usually highlighted in the more intensive games and to be totally honest, DX HR is far from that. As I stated, even with everything at max, it hardly hits 60% utilisation of my graphics card. Games like Crysis 2, Witcher 2 and BF3 are much more demanding games and I have had zero problems with these (and these run at pretty much 99% utilisation). But just to eliminate this, I've already tried at stock and increased the GPU core voltage and it makes not a jot of difference.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

PS. From what I can gather. The issue with some current graphics cards (in any demanding game) and this really applies to both Nvidia and AMD cards... is that manufacturers have been releasing cards (especially OC versions) with the GPU core voltage set too low to support the OC. The various AMD/Nvidia forums are littered with posts about this. I actually initially returned a Gigabyte 580 GTX because it would not run 100% stable at stock volts. Replaced it with the MSI 580 and have had zero problems with it and I stress test my cards heavily within the first 7 days just to make sure nothing like this is lurking in the woodwork (so to speak). This way I can return under DSR, rather than have to go through what can be a torturous procedure to otherwise get a replacement card / re-fund.
 
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