ZylonBane on 12/12/2006 at 15:17

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Well, a few months back I switched from an old GeForce to an ATI card, and now in Deus Ex I'm getting horrible z-fighting artifacts. I'm talking so bad that entire buttons are disappearing into walls. Anyone know a fix for this?

My other problem-- since switching from Win98 to Win2K, the mouse cursor in menus is now extremely imprecise... I can pretty much only move it in 8-pixel jumps or so. Any fix for this either?

cradle_curdled on 12/12/2006 at 18:10

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The (http://cwdohnal.home.mindspring.com/utglr/dxd3d8r11.zip) Direct3D8 one certainly did the trick for me. Strange that there aren't any installation instructions, though:

* Copy contents of the .zip to Deus Ex\System\ folder
* Load up game in safe mode, switch to "Show all devices" and select Direct3D8
* Re-enable high resolution, 32-bit textures, all customised display settings.
* Use in-game preferences menu to re-enable things like CurvedSurfaces, ShinySurfaces, VolumetricLighting, etc., through the Rendering>>Direct3D8 menu.

Prior to using Direct3D8, I was also getting disappearing items on walls, and people had limbs/clothing missing.





There's a line in USER.INI: "bMaxMouseSmoothing=False"
Try changing it to True. Several other options for the mouse in there, too.

cradle_curdled on 24/12/2006 at 22:48

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Just bring up the console, type the word "preferences" and press [Enter]. You'll need a patched version or the GOTY edition to access the console, usually pressing [t] or [y] to bring it up. Then you delete the "Say" or "TeamSay" text and type your command. It's been a long time since I had the original, unpatched version, so I can't really remember, but I think you might be able to manually bind a key to the Talk function by editing the .ini files - more details should be available on cheat sites.

The preferences menu will take you back into Windows; you just make the changes you want and press the X to close the window, and return to the game.

That last instruction I gave above about the preferences menu may no longer apply. I wrote that while messing with revision 10; now that I've tried r11, it seems to negate the need to re-enable CurvedSurfaces, etc. It also seems to address the mouse issue ZylonBane brought up, making the mouse a lot smoother in the camera-controlling menus. Worst thing about r10 was a bug that made loading games a crash-able offence, and that has thankfully been addressed, too.