Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Due August 23rd in the US along with the console variants, the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution has some DirectX 11 features and optimizations. There are also optimizations for multi-core CPUs, Eyefinity and 3D.

Making the game even half as enjoyable as the original Deus Ex is another matter.

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I played through the original in its entirety on a Vista 64-bit machine. I did not encounter a single glitch or crash. In fact, that makes for a more stable experience than when I played the game at around its time of release.

The usual, simple Unreal Engine .ini tweaks are all that is necessary for proper widescreen resolutions and FOVs. Engage supersamling anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering, and the game's visuals are more than serviceable.

The gameplay is definitely not dated. As far as I'm concerned, the game's mechanics and balance is perfect.

Widescreen Gaming Forum is a great site for such information. Some of the older games you can't get to work might have a source port or known modification to get them running on a modern machine. You should be good with Deus Ex.

What games in particular do you have problems with?

It looks like your display is receiving an unsupported resolution.

Doom 3 and Quake Wars both run on the id Tech 4 engine. Follow these instructions to force Doom 3 to output your display's native resolution, and follow the same logic for Quake Wars.

As for Battlefield 2, try this command line edit method to force your display's native resolution. You can add command line scripts via a Steam-linked executable by right-clicking the listed game, going to properties and selecting "set launch options."

I remember reading a while back that the game moves at too fast of a pace if the frame-rate is really high. I think this applies to most games running on Unreal Engine 1.

I force vsync at the driver level, so the frame-rate was capped at 60fps as a result. Everything moved along at a proper pace on a machine with a quad-core CPU.

I just ran Deus Ex, Unreal and Unreal Tournament with vsync forced off, and all three games moved at a laughably fast pace. So, definitely enable vsync for games that run on this engine (vsync should always be enabled, but that's just my opinion).

That article definitely has me excited about this game.

Valve is being brought into the mix of finding those responsible for unlawfully obtaining and uploading a preview build of the game.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/07/squ...ching-hackers/

Stealth Trailer:

Can't wait. Although, I don't think we should expect to take down bosses by tossing a series of lockpicks and multi-tools at them like we could in the original.