Deus Ex

Deus Ex is an FPS/RPG hybrid from Ion Storm and Eidos Interactive. It is most notable for its free-form skill-based gameplay, which allows nearly unlimited solutions to missions, often allows for multiple outcomes, and lets you shape your character to be best suited for your style of play by allowing you to develop the skills of your choice.

Support summary

Grades:-

Widescreen: B
Multi-Monitor: Incomplete

Tested Version:

1.12f

Screen change:

Hor+

Widescreen Method:

.ini edit

Hud Stretch:

None

Multi-monitor Method:

Hack

Multi-monitor HUD:

Rendered cut-scenes:

Anamorphic

FMV cut-scenes:

Stretch

Additional WSGF Links:

Game information

Release Date:

Monday, 26 June, 2000

Game status:

Released

Setting:

Sci-Fi

Genre:

Action-RPG

Play styles:

Single player

Developer:

Ion Storm, Eidos Interactive

Developer feedback:

Links:

⋅ ⋅ ⋅ Metacritic ⋅ Moby Games ⋅ Wikipedia ⋅

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Solutions & Anomalies

Solution

Go to <gameDir>\system. Open deusex.ini. Find these lines:

FullscreenViewportX=xxxx
FullscreenViewportY=xxx

Change them to set your resolution.

Now open user.ini. Find these lines:

DesiredFOV=75.000000
DefaultFOV=75.000000

Change the values to set your FOV to your preference. I recommend 85 for 16:10 resolutions and 90 for 16:9 resolutions.

This game is Hor+, dependant on your FOV setting.

If your resolution constantly resets in user.ini:
First run the game and select a 4x4 digit res from the video options menu, i.e 1600x1200 or 1280x1024. Then you can edit user.ini and your new resolution will stick.

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or
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Deux Ex Widescreen Utility:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2088245
Handy tool to instantly adjust the resolution, gameplay FOV and UI scale - but only supports 16:10 and 16:9.

Eyefinity / Surround Specific Solution

Same .ini+hex method as widescreen

1) Resolution
Documents\Deus Ex - Invisible War\user.ini
FullscreenViewportY=1050
FullscreenViewportX=5040

2) FOV
Program Files\Deus Ex Invisible War\System\Engine.d2u
Replace all 3 instances of 00 00 AA 42 with 00 00 9A 43 (equivalent to decimal FOV 308)

3) UI
Program Files\Deus Ex Invisible War\System\Default.ini
fov__d=21 (scale of the "wheel" interface)
AssumedUIScreenWidth__d=1680 (your single-screen width)
AssumedUIScreenHeight__d=480 (default height)

Some strange camera angles result.
You can fix some of these by editing the [ConversationCamera] settings in Default.ini. I don't know exactly how, but dividing all Angle and Dist values by two is much better already.
Code:
[ConversationCamera]
SlightAngle=7.5
AboveAngle=30.0
ShoulderAngle=7.5
ShoulderMult=0.7
HeadMult=0.25
FaceScalar=0.38
SideTightDist=1.0
SideMidDist=1.5
SideAboveDist=1.0
SideAbove45Dist=1.0
ShouldersLeftDist=1.0
ShouldersRightDist=1.0
HeadTightDist=1.2
HeadMidDist=2.75
HeadLeftDist=1.2
HeadRightDist=1.2
HeadSlightLeftDist=1.2
HeadSlightRightDist=1.2
StraightAboveDist=1.16

3D Solution

Single player anomalies

To the best of my knowledge, the FOV setting affects every part of the gameplay that uses the 3D view. 2D gameplay elements, mainly the extensive screens used for things like managing inventory, augments, and logs, are scaled correctly.

However, in the cut-scenes, at some of the higher resolutions, parts of the subtitles can get cut off. Dialog is all spoken, so this shouldn't hurt playability.

The cut-scenes are rendered ingame. Unexpectedly, they are anamorphic, independent of your FOV setting.

Multiplayer anomalies

Hor+ depends on your FOV, and every server I tried allowed FOVs up to 170, so this section seems OK.

3D anomalies

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