Deus Ex Invisible War performence (settings)

[Lord Athlon]

Ok

I bought this game yesterday for 15 $ Can because i really as a big fan of the original but christ , do the performence suck !!!!!

I never thought that this game would bring my 6800 GT to it's knees but it does !!

I play at 1280 x 1024 4x AA 4x AF@85 hz Vsync OFF and i get big slowdowns in certain area of the game .My fps can drop down as low as 15-20.(apartment building in Seattle for exemple)

I tried to play at 1280 x 1024 4x AA 8 x AF but the lag is just ridiculous in certain parts and it break the immersion of the game.

Does the game do not like AF or what ?

I also tried without AA but it look like crap (too many jaggies) and it doesn't improve the performence that much.

I am surprised because i can play games like Far Cry , Doom III and Half Life 2 at 1280 x 1024 4xAA 8x AF and i average 60 + FPS.Smooth as butter like they say

So , does anyone know a tweak for DEIW that would improve performence ? I don't want to go down to 1024 x 768 so you can already exclude that.I also need to use 4 x AA.

 

[Modeps]

Did you patch it?

 

[Lord Athlon]

Originally posted by: Modeps
Did you patch it?

Yes i did

1.2 is that correct ?

That's what i installed

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: Lord Athlon

Originally posted by: Modeps
Did you patch it?

Yes i did

1.2 is that correct ?

That's what i installed

Yeah, 1.2 is the latest... and was supposed to fix much of the performance issues people were having... I guess it didnt for you

 

[DimZiE]

doesn't it remind you of the first DX ( great gameplay, so-so graphics , with performance problems )

try turning off the bloom option in the graphic options tab

 

[apoppin]

i'm surprised . . . . my 9800xt has no trouble with the patched DeuSex:IW at 10x7 with everything 'on' and 'hi' and 'max' . . . . 'cept MINIMAL - 2xAA/4xAF - and NO vsynch (there isn't much tearing) . . . leave bloom ON cause it looks nice. . . . . try dropping to 2xAA . . . .

DE:IW is a huge resource hog . . . the only other 'tweaks' i know improve the charecters but SLOW performance further. Too bad . . . . try Thief - Deadly Shadows . . . . a equally great game BUT runs MUCH better with the same engine and BETTER gfx . . . . i guess they had 6 extra months to optimize the Unreal II engine further then DE:IW.

 

[MetalMat]

Doom 3 on high setting, 1024x768 runs better than DX:IW on my computer.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: MetalMat
Doom 3 on high setting, 1024x768 runs better than DX:IW on my computer.

that is a given . . . . Thief - DS is one 'notch' more efficient at everything. i can run 11x8 with more aa/af compared with DEIW's 10x7 (P4@3.31Ghz/1GBpc3500/9800xt) even though it's the same engine.

in comparison both Starbreeze's and HL2's Source engine engine both appear more efficient than Unreal's and Doom iii's seems (to me) to be in the 'middle' with DX9 cards.