Deus Ex 2 - Invisible War problem: no textures, effects or fonts

<Username> on 12/1/2010 at 16:55

Deus Ex 2 - Invisible War has been on the list of games I want to play sometime for years now. Last time I installed the game, I encountered a number of problems: Textures or effects ingame did not show, so all objects in the game were displayed as grey polygons. Fonts didn't seem to load correctly either, since none of the menus had text. I only could start the game by blindly clicking on crudely rendered rectangles.

I am aware of the patch to version 1.2, but it apparently only solves performance issues and some problems with NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 cards.

Is this a known problem and does a solution exist? Searches on the topic didn't turn up anything.

AMD Turion 64 Mobile MK-36 (798 MHz)
ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 (128 MB shared)
Catalyst driver version 6
896 MB DDR2
Microsoft Windows XP
Service Pack 2

nexusdx on 19/1/2010 at 12:12

Disable your anti-virus and reinstall game.

EvaUnit02 on 20/1/2010 at 05:51

Make sure your video card meets the shader model requirements.

Pardoner on 20/1/2010 at 06:08

A quick Google search confirms that it does. The Google search you should have done before posting.

nexusdx on 20/1/2010 at 12:42

..or exclude the install folder in your antivirus. I've had the same problem with DX:IW v1,0. I'ts working.

ZylonBane on 21/1/2010 at 20:27

Quote Posted by Pardoner

A quick Google search confirms that it does. The Google search you should have done before posting.

How do you know he didn't?

Pardoner on 22/1/2010 at 05:12

The card supports shader model 2.0. Invisible War requires 1.1. It fits the requirements. QED?

<Username> on 25/1/2010 at 09:35

Quote Posted by nexusdx

..or exclude the install folder in your antivirus. I've had the same problem with DX:IW v1,0. I'ts working.

Thanks, I'll do that.