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Revision as of 04:04, 23 August 2019

Deus Ex: Invisible War
Deus Ex: Invisible War cover
Developers
Ion Storm
Publishers
Eidos Interactive
Square Enix
Engines
Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows December 2, 2003
Deus Ex: Invisible War on Wikipedia
Deus Ex
Deus Ex 2000
Deus Ex: Invisible War 2003
Deus Ex: Human Revolution 2011
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut 2013
Deus Ex: The Fall 2014
Deus Ex: Revision (unofficial mod) 2015
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided 2016
Deus Ex: Breach 2017
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - VR Experience 2017
Deus Ex GO 2017

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 4 DRM disc check. Patch 1.2 uses SecuROM 5 DRM.
Windows
Publisher website
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Windows
Amazon.com
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes: Manual, 2 wallpapers, soundtrack, developer's commentary, 2 avatars, and 24 artworks.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The v1.2 Patch updates North American retail versions to the latest version. Digital distribution and European retail versions already have this patch.

Visible Upgrade: Unofficial patch for Deus Ex 2

Requires v1.2 Patch to be installed for North American retail version
Fixes many issues encountered on modern systems
Additional tweaks available such as FoV adjustment, HUD options, custom aspect ratios and other display tweaks
Full version includes John P's Deus Ex Unified Texture Pack as option during installation. VisibleTweaker.exe offers a way to toggle on/off certain parts of the mod.

Skip intro videos

Use Visible Upgrade: Unofficial patch for Deus Ex 2 and set No Intro Movies via VisibleTweaker.exe in Tweaks section[citation needed]

Improve textures

John P's Deus Ex Unified Texture Pack improves textures and models for most of the game's assets and is a compilation of a variety of mods into a single installer.
The GOG.com version of Invisible War is treated as the UK version. The Unified Texture Pack's installer will need to be set to UK to work.

Game data

Game settings.
Game settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Deus Ex - Invisible War\user.ini
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/6920/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Deus Ex - Invisible War\SaveGames\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/6920/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.
Remap settings.
Remap settings.

Template:Input settings

Controller support

This fix makes Xinput controllers fully navigatable in menus. The game itself has out of the box controller support

for (presumably) the original Xbox controllers , however it isn't fully compatible with Xinput controllers. This fix mostly fixes that.

Go to <path-to-game>
  1. download Xinput Plus [1]
  2. Open XinputPlus.exe
  3. Go to the DirectInput tab and check enable directinput
  4. Assign Right Stick to Z axis/z Rot
  5. Assign DPAD to POV
  6. Assign LT/RT to Button 11/Button12
  7. Select <path-to-game>/system/DX2.exe as Target Program and hit apply
  8. Go to Documents/Deus ex invisible war and Open user.ini
  9. Change Joy8=NoneEnter to joy8=MenuF22
  10. Set your write file permission to deny for all users

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Italian
Italian language is only available for the retail version.

VR support

3D modes State GG3D Notes
Native 3D
Nvidia 3D Vision

Issues fixed

Temporary switch to desktop or black screen when loading

Invisible War temporarily shows the desktop or a black screen prior to the loading screen. The game still works despite this.
Use Visible Upgrade[1]

Game hangs when loading

Fix for Windows 8 or later[citation needed]
  1. Perform the following steps while the game is running.
  2. Open the Task Manager.
  3. Make sure the "Details" tab is visible and activate it.
  4. Find the "DX2Main.exe" executable, right click it, and select "Analyze wait chain."
  5. In the window that appears, there will be the DX2Main.exe as well as other program(s) that cause(s) the game to hang.
  6. Close those programs and the game will continue normally.
Logitech Users[citation needed]

SetPoint software can cause the game to hang while loading stages.

  1. Before the game is started.
  2. Right click the Mouse and Keyboard Settings icon in the system tray, click exit
  3. Alternatively, start Task Manager with Ctrl+Alt+Del, and in the Process tab, end SetPoint.exe

Crash when installed in a Storage Space

The game will refuse to run when installed on a drive which is managed as a storage space on Windows 8 and later.
Install the game on a drive that is not a storage space[citation needed]

Mouse does not move in menu, inventory, etc.

Windows 10 (and earlier?) desktop scaling prevents mouse from moving.
Turn down dpi scaling from 150% to 149%. Might need reboot (Setting the compatibility option for the game to ignore desktop scaling does not solve this.)[2][3]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Shader Model support 1.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Audio OpenAL, DirectSound [4]
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.3 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 1300+
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
Shader model 1.1 support

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/6920/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (6920) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Blackbird on 2017-01-19
    Tested on W10 1607
  2. Steam forum user having/solving the problem that mouse does not move
  3. Solution post by the Steam forum user who had/solved the problem that mouse does not move
  4. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named soundmd