Deus ex and G400

[llaama]

I am thinking of getting this game and read somewhere that the G400 could not use all the features of Direct x7 which is supplied on the CD. I was wondering if anyone had played this game succesfully with a G400 before i bought it. As you can probably tell i am a novice when it comes to games so please bear with me!
Many thanks.

I have a Athlon600 with 128 MB Ram and of course a G400 card.

[spazm_1999]

I've played it... it's not too bad if we forget that it's a lot slower than UT. Play that game using D3D.... openGl doesn't work well. There was a patch for D3D to make it faster... but I don't know where it is now.

Playing on your type of machine should'nt be a problem.... you should be able to play it smooth at 800*600*16.

Spazm

[Korben]

My specs : Duron 650, 128 MB RAM, G400 SH 16MB

Deus Ex was very playable at 800x600x16, highest detail, turning detail textures off.
I used DirectX 8, the latest G400-drivers and the D3D-patch (get it from www.deusex.com). Don't be shocked when you enter the first level (statue of liberty at the docks), you won't experience that slowness in the whole game again.

btw: Deus Ex is awesome !

[spoogenet]

I play DeusEx a bunch and love it. I've got a Celery 400@500, Win2k, and G400 Max.

I've played it with the 5.14 and 5.20 drivers, don't see a difference. I have only DX7, haven't gone to DX8 yet. I started out playing it with 5.14, 128 MB of RAM, and 640x480x32. Then I bumped up to 1024x768x32 and didn't really see any hit in performance except for some rooms. Rooms with computers and all the scrolling stuff give me big slowdowns, but even large levels don't really slow down any more at 1024 than 640. The 32 bit color is a slowdown from 16, though, but looks so much better.

Overall it is very playable. I've played it with 256 and 384 MB of RAM too, and don't notice a huge difference. With anything over 128 it exits the game faster, and doesn't thrash the hard drive so much, which helps for speed a little.

One way or the other, I find it quite playable with the 500 Celery.

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[Beezer]

The demo itself was kinda clunky on my PIII 450 (@510), but after downloading the Patch (yes, it works for the demo too ) I was able to play smoothly at 1024x768 x16bit. The biggest impacts that I noticed was 16bit vs 32 bit and World Detail which I set to medium. Even the Statue of Liberty area was pretty smooth. I only have a vanilla G400 (32MB) as well.

I'm definitely considering this game as a next purchase.

[Alec]

Well, not much else to say, just to strengthen the idea that Deus-Ex is a resource hog, but also a very good game. In 32-bit graphics it looks great, but it´s too slow. Turning detail textures off helps, too.

I play at 1024x768, 16-bit color and textures, 3D sound off and it runs pretty good, even on my machine...

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Intel Atlanta 440LX
Intel Celeron 433Mhz
Hyundai 192Mb SDRAM PC100
Western Digital Caviar 4.3 Gb UDMA-33
Creative Soundblaster PCI128
Creative 24x CD-ROM
Matrox Millennium G400 SH 16Mb SGRAM
Genius desktop speakers + subwoofer
Microsoft Optical Intellimouse
Microsoft Sidewinder Freestyle Pro
Standard keyboard
Standard FDD

Windows Millennium
DirectX 8