Deus Ex: Invisible War Optimizations

[ragingdwarf]

I bought DE2 not to long ago, but I can't seem to get it to run smoothly despite updating to the most recent patch and having a rather decent rig. I was told by a friend that there is an .exe edit that can be done to optimize it for the pc, and I wanted to know if anyone knew of this or had other suggestions. I realize the port was a piss poor straight port of the XBox version, and that's part of the problem.

My current rig is: Athalon Barton 2500+(1.84ghz)
1 gig of Corsair DDR budget RAM
Radeon 9200 pro 128 mb on board RAM

I know it's not the meanest beast out there, but hell, I can run HL2 no problem, Far Cry decently, WoW, all that good ****. Anyway, thanks for any help you guys can provide.

[Optimummind]

As long as you have that 9200, your rig won't run DX2 well. If you want your rig to advance to the mid-high range PC status, you should buy a X800 or a 6800GT.

[Eagle]

definately! that 9200 is the bottleneck.

[ragingdwarf]

Cool. Thanks for the info. When I get enough scratch I'll upgrade to a 9800 pro.

[Optimummind]

Originally Posted by ragingdwarf

Cool. Thanks for the info. When I get enough scratch I'll upgrade to a 9800 pro.

Don't upgrade to the 9800Pro. DX2 still doesn't run well. I know because I had a 9800Pro overclocked to 460mhz for the core and 386mhz for the memory.

If you want to run DX2 smoothly, I recommend a 6800GT-class videocard.

Only when I upgraded to my 6800GT, did DX2 run smoothly with all in-game settings maxed out at 1280x1024.

The 6800GT's are still kind of expensive so perhaps you can buy a X800XL 256mb instead. It doesn't have Shader Model 3.0 support but at least it's cheaper.

[crossmr]

Thats funny, I ran DX2 fine on my old plain 9600. The 9800pro should be fine unless there is an issue with that card specifically.

[Optimummind]

Originally Posted by crossmr

Thats funny, I ran DX2 fine on my old plain 9600. The 9800pro should be fine unless there is an issue with that card specifically.

I should've noted that the term "fine" is subjective. For me, "fine" is running with all in-game settings high with 4xAA, 8xAF and at 1280x1024. A 9800 Pro won't be able to play at these settings in a "fine" manner much less a 9600.

[DABhand]

Although its not spectacular you can also set the game to 16bit instead of 32bit. This gives a huge performance boost.