Warnings
- The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Key points
- Updated version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution with new content and additions.
- Director's Cut has various issues with performance and stability not present in the original release.
- The game's lighting for certain objects is broken compared to the original Wii U version. Use DXHRDC-GFX.
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Official manual
- Deux Ex Wiki
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Version differences
- The Director's Cut includes all Deus Ex: Human Revolution DLC but does not include the Augmented Edition's non-game extras (art book, motion comic, etc.)
Game data
In-game general settings.
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
The file naming convention appears to be this:
gameq
- Quicksave file (from pressing F5)
gamea1
and gamea2
- Autosave files. Not sure yet if it alternates or if 2 is always the most recent.
gamer#
(where # is 1 - 99) - Manual save files. A maximum number of 99 different save files are allowed at anytime.
saveindex
- An index to all the save files. The save files will be useless if this file is missing/corrupted from the folder.
System |
Native |
Notes |
GOG Galaxy |
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OneDrive |
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Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. |
Steam Cloud |
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Approx. 100 MB available. |
Video
External general video settings.
External advanced video settings.
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings (1/2).
In-game advanced video settings (2/2).
Increase FOV to 120°[4]
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- This requires registry editing
- Open RegEdit
- Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Eidos/Deus Ex: HRDC
- Find g_fov
- Change value data to 71 00 00 00.
- Changing in-menu display settings will revert this change.
- This tweak can possibly fix distortion when using multi-monitors with the game.
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SMAA Anti-Aliasing with SweetFX[4]
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- Download custom SweetFX
- Extract archive contents to executable location
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Input
In-game general control settings.
In-game gamepad settings.
In-game key map settings (1/3).
In-game key map settings (2/3).
In-game key map settings (3/3).
The gamepad layout for the game.
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Music, Dialog, Sound Effects. |
Surround sound |
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Up to 7.1 output.[5] |
Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Localizations
VR support
Issues unresolved
Broken multi-monitor support
- Multi-monitor resolutions worked correctly in the original version but have an incorrect aspect ratio in the Director's Cut.[2]
No HUD scaling for higher resolutions
Using a 4k monitor or super resolution techniques like Nvidia DSR results in very small HUD elements. No solution is known for this.
Issues fixed
Mouse lag/acceleration
Some users report that the mouse feels laggy and looking around feels unnatural. Some have attributed this to an implementation of mouse acceleration, however Eidos developer Jimo has stated that there is no mouse smoothing (in the original version of the game).[6]
- The problem may simply be input lag which is usually related to V-Sync. Disabling V-Sync seems to fix input lag for most users.
Changing free look speed in registry[7]
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Other users, under the impression that the game implemented mouse smoothing, seem to have found a registry setting that modifies mouse behavior and have had some success with editing it to fix mouse lag. Edit this specific registry setting:
- Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC
- Change the value of
g_debugFreeLookSpeedScalingRatio_Pitch from 6e 00 00 00 to 00 00 00 00
- Change the value of
g_debugFreeLookSpeedScalingRatio_Yaw from 86 00 00 00 to 00 00 00 00
- Re-adjust your mouse speed in game, no acceleration
- This will also cause your game to crash when using a controller.
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Camera stuttering (stuttering while moving and looking around at the same time)
Fixing camera stuttering[citation needed]
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There are multiple solutions that people have reported work:
- Change the ingame setting "fullscreen" to "no". If you press Alt+↵ Enter the game will go back to fullscreen, but the stuttering should be gone.
- If this doesn't fix stuttering in fullscreen but does fix it in windowed mode for Windows 7 users, right-click 'dxhr.exe' and open the Properties window, then navigate to the Compatibility tab and check 'disable visual themes' and 'disable desktop composition.' This could possibly fix stuttering in fullscreen.
- Stuttering can also be reduced by turning off triple buffering in the game menu.
- If you're playing in DX9 mode, you may try using Boris Vorontsov's ENBSeries SPEED IMPLANT.
- Reinstall the redists located in
redist in the installation folder, then restart your computer
- The last possible solution would be to use DX11 mode (VSync enabled) and then go in to the registry.
- Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC
- Set D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_PREVENT_INTERNAL_THREADING_OPTIMIZATIONS to 1.[8]
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Poor performance
- Some players have reported poor performance with the Director's Cut version.
Change registry settings[9]
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- Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC
- Open dword
AllowJobStealing and set it to 0
- Nvidia users only: go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC\Graphics and change AtiForceFetch4 to 0
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Force refresh-rate inside the GPUs control-panel[citation needed]
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- Go to Nvidia control-panel → Manage 3D-settings → Deus Ex HRDC → Max framerate
- Input a value multiple of your monitor's refresh-rate e.g. 144 or 120
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Disable Windows 10 throttling[citation needed]
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- Open windows 10 Group Policy Editor (search for gpedit.msc in the start menu)
- Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Power Management > Power Throttling Settings
- Double click on 'turn off Power Throttling policy', and then click on the 'enabled' option.
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Crash on start (Windows 8 and later)
- Some players have reported that when starting the game, it crashes outright when the integrated Intel(R) HD Graphics adapter is enabled.
Disable the integrated display adapter[citation needed]
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- Right-click the Start corner (or press ⊞ Win+X) and choose Device Manager.
- Expand Display adapters.
- Right-click Intel(R) HD Graphics, choose Disable. Confirm when prompted.
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Add launch options to Steam[citation needed]
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An alternative work-around for some users, without disabling their graphics card, is to add "-nosound" to the Steam Launch Options. Some additional testing is needed to verify if this works for the majority of users.
- Open Steam and right-click on the game, selecting Properties.
- Under the General tab, select the button for Set Launch Options...
- Add "-nosound" without quotes into the box, and hit OK.
Despite the wording of the setting being added, this does not disable sound for the game.
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Weapon zoom and interacting with terminals is laggy
- Caused by long Windows uptime, most notably on Windows 8/10 due to the Fast Startup feature
Uptime Faker[10]
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- Download Ultimate ASI Loader (not x64 version)
- Copy
dinput8.dll to <path-to-game> and rename it to winmm.dll
- Download UptimeFaker32
- Copy both files to
<path-to-game>
- Rename
UptimeFaker32.dll to UptimeFaker32.asi
- Open
UptimeFaker.ini and change values as noted, then save the file
AddUptimeDays=0
ProcessTime=1
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Crash/Freeze caused by the telemetry
- The telemetry may crash/freeze the game.
- The Steam and GOG version are both affected by this issue.
Crash on startup on systems with a large number of cores
- The game will crash on systems with large numbers of cores.
Patch the game with hex edit
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- Open
DXHRDC.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
- Go to offset
0xD3165 and replace the following bytes E8 46 F0 FF FF with 90 90 90 90 90
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
9, 11 |
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OpenGL |
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OS X only. |
Shader Model support |
3, 5 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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macOS (OS X) | |
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This 32-bit-only macOS game does not work on macOS Catalina (10.15) or later. |
Middleware
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Middleware |
Notes |
Audio |
FMOD |
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Interface |
Scaleform |
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Access the external setup utility
DXHRDC-GFX
- Direct3D 11 only.
- Restores the gold filter look of the original game as closely as possible.[12]
- Fixes broken lighting.[13]
- Everything can be configured by pressing F11 in-game.
Download[14]
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Download the mod and extract all of its files to <path-to-game>
Notes
- If you do not wish to use the gold filter look and only want the fixed lighting then either select DC options in-game via F11 or set values in
DXHRDC-GFX.ini as follows:
EnableColorGrading=0
BloomStyle=0
LightingStyle=1
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System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
XP, Vista |
7, 8 |
Processor (CPU) |
2.0 GHz Dual Core
| AMD Phenom II X4 Intel Core 2 Quad |
System memory (RAM) |
2 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
17 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce 8000 series ATI Radeon HD 2000 series DirectX 9.0c compatible
| ATI Radeon HD 5850 DirectX 11 compatible |
Sound (audio device) |
DirectX 9.0c compatible | |
macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
10.8.5 |
10.9.2 |
Processor (CPU) |
2.0 GHz
| 2.4 GHz |
System memory (RAM) |
4 GB |
8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
25 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
512 MB of VRAM
| 1 GB of VRAM |
- The following graphics cards are not supported on OS X: ATI Radeon X1xxx series, ATI Radeon HD2xxx series, Intel GMA series, Intel HD3000, Nvidia GeForce 7xxx series, Nvidia GeForce 8xxx series, Nvidia GeForce 9400 and Nvidia GeForce 3xx series. The following cards require you to have 8 GB of system RAM: Intel HD4000.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
References
- ↑ The porter for the Windows version of HR:DC is unknown. Nixxes ported the original Human Revolution, but disclaims involvement with the Director's Cut.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 [BUG] Eyefinity Support Regression :: Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut General Discussions
- ↑ New 120Hz Games Report
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Verified by User:Aday on 15 November 2017
- ↑ PC Gaming Surround Sound Round-up
- ↑ KEYBOARD & MOUSE & CONTROLLER -Key Mapping/Customise, Mouse Lag, Controls -All Issues - Page 3
- ↑ http://smoothmouse.net/forum/topic/143-deus-ex-human-revolution-mouse-acceleration-how-to-disable-it
- ↑ Square Enix Forums - STUTTERING & LAG / FRAME RATE Drop - Video & Audio - All Discussion - Page 43
- ↑ Guru3D.com Forums - View Single Post - Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- ↑ Verified by User:Blackbird on 2021-04-09
- ↑ Changing Graphics Settings :: Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut General Discussions - last accessed on 2017-08-12
- ↑ Restoring the gold filter in Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director’s Cut (Color filter) - Silent’s Blog - last accessed on 2020-04-26
- "As you can see, the colors are quite different, which means those attributes are relevant for the final presentation. Sadly, I tried to look for any remains of those attributes in the Director’s Cut and currently did not manage to find anything. While it would be nice to see them working again, for my re-implementation I settled on picking one constant set of colors for the entire game – it doesn’t match the original Human Revolution 1:1, but it looks very close in the majority of scenarios as is."
- ↑ Restoring the gold filter in Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director’s Cut (Lighting – improved, glitched, or both?) - Silent’s Blog - last accessed on 2020-04-26
- ↑ Verified by User:Blackbird on 2020-04-26