Comments on: Deus Ex, Free

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:43:03 +0000

This is why i don’t sub to these services they pull things away. Yes from free customers. But a disagreement with publishers means it gets pulled from paid accounts too.

Never mind, i already own the game but getting it on steam is an option if my disc breaks.

By: sbs

sbs — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:22:46 +0000

Bad news everyone!
Coming January 22nd, it’s no longer free. Aaaw :(

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:39:02 +0000

Theory, you can find a couple of suggestions for fixing the multicore issue here:

http://offtopicproductions.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1214 :)

By: RodeoClown

RodeoClown — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:07:29 +0000

CunningBeef: where do you set your location?

By: Theory

Theory — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:51:52 +0000

Was there ever a fix for the wonky server timescale on multicore CPUs? Unreal 1 has one…

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:38:17 +0000

Yep that’s pretty adequate. Also in case you haven’t already found it, technically savvy people from the OTP boards recommend you use the following .ini settings:

http://offtopicproductions.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1730#1730

That’s what I use, and it works for me.

Also, The Cassandra Project was bloody ace, but sort of unfinished, to put it nicely. Having worked on the same mod project for 6 years, I feel completely entitled to shake my head at the TCP team for not sacrificing similar portions of their life for very little reward ;)

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:29:33 +0000

The OpenGL renderer instructions for Deus Ex are a little, um, terse. Are these steps correct?

1. Copy file OpenGLDrv.dll to F:\DeusEx\System, overwriting previous version.

2. Add the following lines to F:\DeuxEx\System\DeuxEx.ini after the line [OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice]:

NewMeshPath=True
EnablePatch=True
UseVertexProgram=True
UseFragmentProgram=True

By: Zuffox

Zuffox — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:15:00 +0000

(Psst, someone mention and praise The Cassandra Project, or Kieron will end up weeping on the floor in a fetal position with self-hate)

By: James T

James T — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:25:56 +0000

Thanks Jonas, sounds like DXR’ll bring it to the yard much more than I knew. Seeya on the boards. :P

edit: Argh, damn that lewd ‘tongue-in-front’ smiley…

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:24:04 +0000

And even better, HDTP seem right on track to finish their final release before hell freezes over :)

It’ll be great to play around with those high-poly reanimated weapons. I’ve seen a couple of them and especially the new pistol is quite fantastic in-game.

By: jamscones

jamscones — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:16:54 +0000

Essential mods (after installing DX and patching) are:

1) Shifter v1.7.2
2) HDTP Release 1
3) Enhanced OpenGL Renderer, which you can find here:

http://cwdohnal.home.mindspring.com/utglr/

The OpenGL renderer completely replaces that shipped with the game (useless) with something that works even better than the game’s native 3DFX Glide mode. Nobody should ever play DX in Direct3D mode, it’s just dreadful. The new OpenGL renderer supports FSAA (when forced at the driver level), and other modernfangled graphical features.

4) OTP UI Fix, which sorts out the UI scaling for higher resolution settings:

http://deusex2.filefront.com/file/OTP_UI_Fix;84991

Use that little lot, and you get something surprisingly respectable for an 8yr old game.

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:14:34 +0000

Ah, yes, that’s a very cool list Jonas. Tx!