Deus Ex: The Fall

Deus Ex: The Fall

Developers   Eidos Montreal   N-Fusion Interactive

Publishers   Square Enix

Engines   Unity

Release dates Windows March 18, 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

Enable Vsync in-game to avoid various issues including mouse sensitivity problems.

Does not include the mobile versions' microtransactions.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys
GamersGate
Humble Store
Steam

All versions require Steam.

Game data

Configuration file and save game data location

	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\N_Fusion Interactive\Deus Ex_ The Fall

PlayerPrefs.txt contains all settings as well as turntable model unlocking progress.

dxmsave.sav contains current save data.

endgamesave.sav contains endgame save data (only exists after completing the game).

*.xml files are generated during gameplay and don't contain useful settings.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
GameSave Manager

Video settings

Video settings.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor			Use borderless windowed mode together with ShiftWindow.
Field of view (FOV)		Can't be changed. FOV is 60 vertical degrees.
Windowed		Set in Options, Video or toggle with Alt+↵ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Enable windowed mode and use the -popupwindow parameter.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		MSAA up to x8; for SGSSAA see Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Disabled by default. Set in Options, Video. Enable to fix various issues.
High frame rate		No frame rate cap.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

SGSSAA can be forced with Nvidia Inspector (Nvidia cards only).

Set AA with Nvidia Inspector Download and run Nvidia Inspector. Copy the compatibility bits for Deus Ex Human Revolution to a new profile for Deus Ex: The Fall. Set the anti-aliasing quality and sampling for the profile. Click Apply to save your changes.

Input settings

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping		Added in 1.0.1 patch. Quick save/load can only be remapped only by editing a config file.
Mouse acceleration		Cannot be turned off.
Mouse input in menus		Moving a cursor for a pixel (or more) while clicking on the button, will make the game ignore the input.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Disabled by default. No vibration. Third-party XInput controllers are not recognised.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller Y-axis inversion

Audio settings

Audio settings.

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Sound FX and Dialog.
Surround sound		Stereo output only.
Subtitles		Enabled by default. Toggle in Options, Audio.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Instead of mute music uses low-pass filter.

The 1.0.1 patch did not add surround sound support, it simply corrected an incompatibility with surround sound systems.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues unresolved

Third-party XInput controller not recognised

Third-party XInput controllers do not work with this game; only official Microsoft controllers are detected correctly. There is no known solution.

Issues fixed

Loading stops at "Downloading assets... 0%"

Restart Steam in offline mode Restart Steam in offline mode. Run the game.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP2	7 SP1
Processor (CPU)	2GHz dual core
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9.0c compatible	GeForce 500 Series 7000 Series 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible