Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

Developers   Eidos Montreal Windows Nixxes Software OS X Feral Interactive

Publishers   Square Enix

Engines   Crystal Engine

Release dates Windows October 22, 2013 OS X April 15, 2014

Deus Ex

Deus Ex	2000
Deus Ex: Invisible War	2003
Deus Ex: Human Revolution	2011
Tactical Enhancement Pack
Explosive Mission Pack
The Missing Link
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut	2013
Deus Ex: The Fall	2014

Key points

Updated version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution with new content and additions.

Director's Cut has various performance and gameplay problems not present in the original version.

General information

Technical Support Forum - official PC-specific tech forum

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys
Amazon.com
GamersGate
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

All versions require Steam.

Version differences

The Director's Cut includes all Deus Ex: Human Revolution DLC but does not include the Augmented Edition's non-game extras (art book, motion comic, etc.)

Downloadable content (DLC) and expansions

All DLC is included in the base game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC\
OS X

Save game data location

	Location
Steam	<Steam-folder>/userdata/<user-id>/238010/remote/

The file naming convention appears to be this:

• gameq - Quicksave file (from pressing F5)
• gamea1 and gamea2 - Autosave files. Not sure yet if it alternates or if 2 is always the most recent.
• gamer# (where # is 1 - 99) - Manual save files. A maximum number of 99 different save files are allowed at anytime.
• saveindex - An index to all the save files. The save files will be useless if this file is missing/corrupted from the folder.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video 1/3 settings.

Video 2/3 settings.

Video 3/3 settings.

Graphics option	Option	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		Multi-monitor resolutions have an incorrect aspect ratio.
Field of view (FOV)		Up to 100°; locked at 75° when using multi-monitor resolutions.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
High frame rate		No frame rate or refresh rate cap.

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Although mouse acceleration is disabled, players could still experience some weird behaviors. See mouse "acceleration".
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller Y-axis inversion

Mouse "acceleration"

Fix mouse lag Open regedit Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC Change the value of g_debugFreeLookSpeedScalingRatio_Pitch to 00 00 00 00 Change the value of g_debugFreeLookSpeedScalingRatio_Yaw to 00 00 00 00 Re-adjust your mouse speed in game, no acceleration This will also cause your game to crash when using a controller

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Dialog, Sound Effects.
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

The Director's Cut does not include Polish or Russian support unlike the original Deus Ex: Human Revolution and its DLC.

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues unresolved

Broken multi-monitor support

Multi-monitor resolutions worked correctly in the original version but have an incorrect aspect ratio in the Director's Cut.

No Polish or Russian language support

The Director's Cut does not support Polish or Russian. The only workaround is to buy the original Deus Ex: Human Revolution and its DLC.

Dual Screen mode not available

The Dual Screen mode described in the manual is still not available. Eidos assert that it will be available in the future.

Issues fixed

Mouse lag/acceleration

Some users report that the mouse feels laggy and looking around feels unnatural. Some have attributed this to an implementation of mouse acceleration, however Eidos developer Jimo has stated that there is "no mouse smoothing applied in DXHR".

The problem may simply be input lag which is usually related to V-Sync. Disabling V-Sync seems to fix input lag for most users.

Changing free look speed in registry Other users, under the impression that the game implemented mouse smoothing, seem to have found a registry setting that modifies mouse behavior and have had some success with editing it to fix mouse lag. Use these steps (listed below) to edit this specific registry setting (Be sure to back up your registry before making any changes): Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC Change the value of g_debugFreeLookSpeedScalingRatio_Pitch from 6e 00 00 00 to 00 00 00 00 Change the value of g_debugFreeLookSpeedScalingRatio_Yaw from 86 00 00 00 to 00 00 00 00 Re-adjust your mouse speed in game, no acceleration

Camera stuttering (stuttering while moving and looking around at the same time)

Fixing camera stuttering There are multiple solutions that people have reported work: Change the ingame setting "fullscreen" to "no". If you press Alt+↵ Enter the game will go back to fullscreen, but the stuttering should be gone. If this doesn't fix stuttering in fullscreen but does fix it in windowed mode for Windows 7 users, right-click 'dxhr.exe' and open up the Properties window, then navigate to the Compatibility tab and check 'disable visual themes' and 'disable desktop composition.' This could possibly fix stuttering in fullscreen. Stuttering can also be reduced by turning off triple buffering in the game menu. If you're playing in DX9 mode, you may try using Boris Vorontsov's ENBSeries SPEED IMPLANT. Reinstall the redists located in redist in the installation folder, then restart your computer The last possible solution would be to use DX11 mode (VSync enabled) and then go in to the registry. (Windows-key + R). Type in 'regedit' and press ↵ Enter. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC Set D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_PREVENT_INTERNAL_THREADING_OPTIMIZATIONS to 1.

Poor performance

Some players have reported poor performance with the Director's Cut version.

Change registry settings Open the Registry Editor (open the Start screen/Start menu, type regedit and press ↵ Enter). Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC Open dword AllowJobStealing and set it to 0 Nvidia users only: go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC\Graphics and change AtiForceFetch4 to 0

Crash on start (Windows 8 and newer)

Some players have reported that when starting the game, it crashes outright when the integrated Intel(R) HD Graphics adapter is enabled.

Disable the integrated display adapter Right-click the Start corner (or press ⊞ Win+X) and choose Device Manager. Expand Display adapters. Right-click Intel(R) HD Graphics, choose Disable. Confirm when prompted.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7, 8	7, 8
Processor (CPU)	2 GHz dual core	AMD Phenom II X4 Intel Core 2 Quad
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	17 GB	17 GB
Video card (GPU)	NVIDIA GeForce 8000 series ATI Radeon HD 2000 series DirectX 9.0c compatible	AMD Radeon HD 5850 DirectX 9.0c compatible

OS X
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.8.5	10.9.2
Processor (CPU)	2.0Ghz	2.4Ghz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	25 GB	25 GB
Video card (GPU)	512 MB of VRAM	1 GB of VRAM

The following graphics cards are not supported on OS X: ATI X1xxx series, ATI HD2xxx series, Intel GMA series, Intel HD3000, NVIDIA 7xxx series, NVIDIA 8xxx series, NVIDIA 9400 and NVIDIA 3xx series. The following cards require you to have 8GB of system RAM: Intel HD4000.