This guide will help you in setting up Deus Ex on your computer. It's fairly straight forwards in getting Deus Ex set up so let's get to it!

Let's start off with some important information.

The Program Files folder is a protected folder within your Windows installation that works differently from other folders on your computer.

The long story short is that if you have your copy of Deus Ex located within either the Program Files or the Program Files (x86) folder, you may encounter problems and some, or all, mods may not work at all. This varies from machine to machine and some people may not have a problem at all.

If you think you might be being affected by this, try using the 'Storage' function built into Steam to move your copy of Deus Ex from the Program Files folder into another SteamLibrary folder. Mods may start working for you if you were having problems before.

You can make another Steam Library Folder using Steam's Storage feature. Go to Steam > Settings and Click 'Storage'.

Click the + and 'Add Drive' and make it anywhere you want (You can also specify a specific folder too)



Once you've done this, you can move Deus Ex into this new drive or folder and proceed with the guide!

First of all, make sure your copy of DirectX is up to date. You can find the Web Installer to install the latest updates here[www.microsoft.com]

You will also need to install Microsoft C++ 2015 Runtime Libraries[download.microsoft.com] on your machine.

Even if you have any of the above installed and aren't sure about it, you can reinstall them safely as they will either update the current version installed or just reinstall itself.

There are multiple ways to go from here. You can:

• Just have a vanilla experience with no extra bells and whistles whatsoever,
  
• Install the "GMDX" mod which includes several mods that will enhance visuals, slightly alter gameplay and enhance many other aspects

I always recommend you play the original game first before you slap any mods on the game.

Let's start with just vanilla Deus Ex!

This section is just if you want to have the ability to play vanilla Deus Ex with nothing extra included.

You will need to go to Kentie.net Deus Exe page[kentie.net] and update your copy of Deus Ex with this new executable file.

Windows 10 and later users can use whatever the latest version is.
Windows XP users can only update to v5.3 of the Deus Exe.

Simply download the correct ZIP file and extract it to your Deus Ex "System" folder, overwriting everything Windows asks you (If you want to make a backup of the old files first though, go ahead).

A quick bit of info on renderers. You can instruct the game to use a different renderer of your choosing by installing the correct files into the game's "System" directory. You can install newer OpenGL, and Direct3D renderers written by the community.

They may change how the game looks a little bit as well as other factors such as brightness and texture quality.

Stability may vary depending on software and hardware installed.

With all that said, here are a few you can try:

OpenGL 2.0 looks to have the best compatibility with modern systems. You can update the game's OpenGL Drivers from stock to a newer version made by Chris Dohna!

Visit this website[www.cwdohnal.com] and download the Deus Ex OpenGL 2.0 renderer ZIP file. Extract the contents of this file into your Deus Ex "System" directory.

You can also grab a Direct3D 9 renderer from the same website, though

Kentie, who created Deus Exe, also has Direct3D10 drivers available to install. You can find them here[kentie.net] and you'll also need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Reidstributale (x86)[download.microsoft.com]

Open it in your ZIP extracting software, go into "DeusEx" folder and extract the contents of that folder into the Deus Ex's "System" Directory.

There is a new Direct3D11 renderer available to use. It's found at the ModDB website. Download it, and follow the instructions in the ZIP file.

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The version of Deus Ex GOTY on Steam shipped with older builds of the levels. You can visit this website[www.dxm.be] and download versions of the levels that are newer and contain fixes not found in the GOTY version.

So now, we finally have vanilla Deus Ex ready to go!

Go ahead and launch the game, either through Steam or double-clicking DeusEx.exe in the Deus Ex\System folder. If you've not run the Executable before, you'll see this window pop up.



This new configuration menu will allow you to get the most out of Deus Ex.

This will only appear the first time you launch the game. In future you'll see a different window where you can launch the game or come back to the config menu (You can config things even further so you no longer see this window at all but more on that later)

Here is a run down of what all the settings are:

UI
Raw Input (Disable mouse acceleration for camera): Down to you if you want to have this on or off. Most people will not want to alter this setting.

Widescreen cinematic subtitle fix: Leave Enabled.

Use custom GUI scaling: This setting will keep the user interface (and menus) at their original sizes. This is good for low to mid resolutions like 640x480 or even 1280x720 but beyond that, you're going to struggle to read on-screen text, especially at 4K and above.

1920x1080 example (No/1x Scaling)




1920x1080 example (x2 scaling)




Video options
Renderer: This is where you can choose any of the previously talked about renderers you may have installed. The recommended renderers are Direct3D11 and OpenGL 2.0.

FPS Limit (0 for off): 120 is fine for a default value but you could change this to your monitors refresh rate for the best experience. This could be 120, 144 or 240 Hz or higher.

Viewport
Here the options are pretty self-explanatory. Fullscreen will display the game in fullscreen mode. You may get extra frames-per-second from this option. Windowed will have the game in a Window that you can move around. Borderless fullscreen plays the game in fullscreen but will allow you to swap between computer tasks a bit more efficiently at the cost of a few frames-per-second. With a game as old as Deus Ex, that shouldn't be a problem these days.

Audio
Latency: Best left alone. If you have audio problems or crackling, try changing the value to other recommended numbers

Use DirectSound Recommended to leave enabled.

Misc
Use single CPU: Recommended to leave disabled.

Quality
Choose 32 bit color and leave Detail textures enabled.

Field of View
Recommended to leave on 'Automatic (updates FOV on window resize)' for best results.

Having a new DeusEx.exe allows for more flexibility and new launch options can be given to the new EXE to change how it works at startup.

To launch Deus Ex with a Launch Opttion, right click on the game in Steam and click Properties. In General, click Set Launch Options...

You will be given a box where you can enter in commands.


Here are some launch options you can use to further customise Deus Ex.

-localdata
Games nowadays will save a lot of their information in the 'My Documents' folder but, for people with Solid State Drives or are fussy where their game files go (i.e me), we want the game save files to be stored where Deus Ex is installed.

The new Deus Ex exe saves content inside the 'My Documents' folder by default but it can be changed back to how the original game behaved (saving its content inside the local game directory) by adding the launch option -localdata

-skipdialog
This option will completely skip the window you see when starting the new Deus Ex executable which allows you to configure game settings. Use this once you're happy that you have Deus Ex set up the way you want it and you'll no longer have to click 'Play' every time you start the game!

You can put these options next to each other with a space to seperate them: -localdata -skipdialog

Deus Ex has a lot of cool mods for it. I'll go over some stand out mods here

GMDX

"GMDX" is a Deus Ex mod that you should get for your Deus Ex experience. This guide is going to assume that you have NOT followed the previous "Vanilla Deus Ex" section. If you have, problems may occur. Start from a fresh Deus Ex installation.

This mod adds the following (and more), according to the official GMDX website:

• Faithfully updated Level Design and Graphics,
  
• Improved Artificial Intelligence,
  
• Entirely new game mechanics, such as mantling, zooming in with scopes, and more. All are optional,
  
• New User Interface shortcuts, more precise GUI information, and additional interactive elements.
  
• Low quality and duplicate sounds replaced, and new audio additions to fill in the blanks,
  
• Intricate attention to detail to provide highly polished and deeper weaponry,
  
• New difficulty levels - Difficulty levels are vastly overhauled to cater to a wider variety of player types.
  
• RPG Systems - Build a deeper and more meaningful role to play through balancing and expansion
  
• Bug Fixes

Head to GMDX ModDB and download the mod. It weighs in at around 1.9GB.

Deus Ex: Transcended

Deus Ex: Transcended is designed more for first-time players of the game and sticks a bit more closely to the original game a bit more, choosing to focus on bugfixes, and Quality of Life changes.

"For most all purposes, it'll play identical to the original, without any substantial changes to balance and no changes to assets, be they map, model, or sound. Virtually all changes outside of pure bug fixing are entirely configurable, allowing for the user to stay even closer the original in every possible way, should they choose it."

Head to The Deus Ex: Transcended ModDB website to grab the mod.

But you may be wondering how to configure everything that we've just installed. We're going to do that now!

If you did install anymods, we'll need to make sure that everything is loaded in the correct loading order!

When you get to the Deus Exe start screen, youi'll see this window.



Click on Data Directories. You'll see a collection of Mods that you've installed here and you can pick and choose what you want to play the game with!

I've installed BOTH GMDX and Deus Ex: Transcended to demonstrate here.



Here you can check or uncheck the boxes that control which mods are enabled and which aren't. For example, checking the New Vision checkbox will mean that New Vision textures are enabled when starting the game.

For now though, click OK, and then go into the Configuration menu. You may want to configure some stuff here. Refer to the "Deus Exe" section to get a better idea of what everything does.

As a demo, I have just Deus Ex: Transcended enabled here. All I'm going to do now is press OK and click Play!

My Deus Ex start menu now looks like this (with GUI X3 scaling)



In the settings, I have a Transcended Settings page where I can play with the mod settings. Other mods, like GMDX, may have similar options screens like this.



Be careful about your save files though; mixing and changing up mods mid-save is usually a sure fire way to break things. If you start a New Game, make sure you stick to the current mod selection for that playthrough (though visual / graphical mods may be more lenient with compatibility with saves)

I'll let you go through all of these and tweak things to your liking!

GMDX does not overwrite your Deus Ex executable, or any important files used by the vanilla game. Instead, everything is installed in different folders in the Deus Ex directory and GMDXv9 is largely where the 'brains' of this mod are contained.

This means that you can swap back between GMDX and vanilla Deus Ex whenever you like, and neither setup affects the other! Pretty neat stuff.

Please note that this is not a supported use case by the GMDX Mod Team. This is something I found while just messing around with the files. Use the following method at your own risk of messing up your Deus Ex installation. When in doubt, back things up!

I mentioned just above this section that GMDX.exe is simply a renamed DeusExe.exe made by Kentie.

I then found an alternate way to launch mods that, for some of the more complex mods, may be useful in some situations. This will differ depending on the mods and this example is only for GMDX.

In your Launch Options, you will need to enter in a fairly long string of text in order for everything to work properly. The string is the following:

INI="<DIRECTORY_TO_DEUS_EX\GMDXv9\System\gmdx.ini" USERINI="<DIRECTORY_TO_DEUS_EX\GMDXv9\System\GMDXUser.ini"

Example of my own launch option text:

INI="E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Deus Ex\GMDXv9\System\gmdx.ini" USERINI="E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Deus Ex\GMDXv9\System\GMDXUser.ini"



This will tell Steam to load in the same way the GMDX Shortcut on your desktop would work. It will load everything correctly, and you can jump into an enhanced Deus Ex experience right through Steam that way!

OK So when you have all finished configuring your game, click OK to save your options and click Play to start the game.

Enjoy a better, prettier, almost bug-free, and more immersive Deus Ex experience!











Be sure to check out some of my other guides:

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