Deus Ex: Human Revolution gets PC patch

By Tom Phillips Published 26 August, 2011

Load times cut by over 50 per cent.

PC copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution have a day one patch waiting for them on Steam.

The fix promises to dramatically reduce game loading times, for some by more than 50 per cent.

"The speed increase depends on machine spec and settings, but loading time improvements of over 50 per cent have been measured on some machines," the patch notes read.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution reloads upon mission failure or death, making the patch an important fix for a game whose multiple methods of completing levels encourage experimentation.

The patch is available now - VG247 notes it is installed on preloaded Steam copies before the game unlocked.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution day one PC patch notes:

  • A frequent issue for AMD/ATI hardware users that can cause the game to crash on startup.
  • Improvements to loading speed. The speed increase depends on machine spec and settings, but loading time improvements of over 50% have been measured on some machines.
  • Diagonal movement is no longer faster as intended.
  • Adjustments have been made to mouse sensitivity in response to user feedback.
  • Mouse sensitivity for X and Y axis can still be configured separately, but is now consistent when set to default settings.
  • The range of settings for mouse sensitivity has been adjusted to provide for more accurate adjusting.
  • The default mouse sensitivity has been altered to be somewhat less sensitive.

Watch spoiler-free footage of the game's first mission played using all-out action and then stealth below:

Deus Ex: Human Revolution video talkthrough.

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Comments (30) Latest comment 9 months ago

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  • Goodfella #1 9 months ago

    Yeah I noticed the massively improved load times this morning, thank God as they were intolerable before (30+ seconds on an SSD?!)

    Getting about 5 second loads on average now. :)

  • pogomeister #2 9 months ago

    Xbox loading times are pretty bad even wen it's installed!

  • schnide #3 9 months ago

    It's around 30 seconds on PS3. And the game is absolutely bloody fantastic.

    It's not as free in terms of what you can do compared to the original, but it's still more free than most other games you can play today. It's really immersive and I cannot get home to play the second mission.

  • Subdominator #4 9 months ago

    What I've heard so far is: Horrible loading times, bad frame rate (at least on 360), a lot of freedom but it all comes down to doing the same five different choices in every mission which gets boring pretty quick. Oh and sub-sub HD graphics on consoles. Can't say I'm very impressed by the first hand reviews so far. I'd love to try it myself but they don't seem to plan a demo?

  • Negotiator1 #5 9 months ago

    Played about an hour last night after it unlocked, and it is superb so far.

  • themerlin13 #6 9 months ago

    Looking at the list of fixes the customers seem to be the pc beta testers!

  • Goodfella #7 9 months ago

    @Subdominator

    It would seem the console versions are inferior (but still good) but as is usually the case the PC version is the way to go if you have a decent system, saying that it doesn't appear to require anything special and runs great on pretty low end spec PC's.

  • geeza2020 #8 9 months ago

    schnide - "It's really immersive and I cannot get home to play the second mission."

    Is this a cry for help? Have you been kidnapped? Are you being held hostage somewhere? Give me a positive for yes, neg for no ;-)

  • Goodfella #9 9 months ago

    LOL at geeza.

  • Darren #10 9 months ago

    The Xbox 360 load times from the installed HDD version didn't seem that bad to me when I tried it last night; around 15-20 seconds tops. Put it this way they were much better than I thought they'd be after hearing complaints about the loading time on various forums and didn't annoy me seeing as the areas are fairly large. Great game.

    Now if only the FMV cutscenes weren't so jarringly dark (not to mention overcompressed and low-res) compared with the in-game stuff then the game would be a step closer to being perfect IMO.

  • spekkeh #11 9 months ago

    Well the loading times on the xbox do annoy me, because they're so long when you die. This always bugs me, because the environment should already be in the memory. When coded smartly, they just have to reset the characters and triggers; instead they seem to throw everything away and rebuild it from scratch. If you die ten times in a row because you want to try an alternative approach, the loading times become pretty grating.

    So I hope they release a patch for the xbox too.

  • abigsmurf #12 9 months ago

    "Diagonal movement is no longer faster as intended"

    Please don't tell me in this day and age there are still coders who don't use trigonometry for diagonal movement...

  • MikkyX #13 9 months ago

    @geeza2020 should we rescue him? all guns blazing, or sneak in quietly without killing anyone? decisions, decisions.

  • Syrette #14 9 months ago

    Any news on a 360 TU or a PS3 *the equivalent on PS3*?

  • Vroom #15 9 months ago

    Sounds like someone forgot to remove something before gold. !;)

  • xuiton #16 9 months ago

    the AI looks terrible.

  • metalangel #17 9 months ago

    @MikkyX: I think you should shoot him, to throw his captors into confusion.

  • deadstoned #18 9 months ago

    Damn load times, one of the most immersion breaking points of any games.

  • Vedfolner #19 9 months ago

    Poor schnide. An absolutely, bloody fantastic game and he just can't get home - feel for you, mate. Hope you find your way home eventually, though. Do you have a GPS on your phone?

  • Haloboy #20 9 months ago

    My initial load time went from sometimes as much as 30 seconds to 10 seconds after the patch. I'd say that's a pretty decent fix myself.

  • schnide #21 9 months ago

    @geeza

    I was going to pretend for pride's sake that my trains were fucked and thus my sentence was legitimate.

    BUT YES OKAY I MEANT I CANNOT *WAIT* TO GET HOME AND PLAY IT!

    My mental augmentations are malfunctioning. I'm going to see Pritchard.

  • Bravestinsane #22 9 months ago

    well the patch applied for me about 10mins before it actually released on steam.

    Never mind the loading, i already fucking my game up, killed everyone as soon as i got outside, no more gun sellers =(

  • geeza2020 #23 9 months ago

    @schnide - LOL, thanks for the chuckles anyway, glad to hear you're safe :D

  • Goodfella #24 9 months ago

    @Bravestinsane

    It isn't CoD you know. :p

  • AnsemsApprentice #25 9 months ago

    I think the load times are about the same as Far Cry 2 when installed on the 360, but I've gotten used to it. It'd be nice if they could be cut down somehow, though, because it really takes you out of the experience.

    I got my copy yesterday. The amount of choice is where I think it knocks most games right out of the water. The choices you make actually feel like they have an impact on the world as well . . . and they do. You don't get a superficial halo when you're good or facial scars when you're bad, it just naturally changes the outcome of situations and conversations; it makes you want to reload when you get it wrong not because you lost some "Karma points" or because you missed out on a snazzy new weapon, but because it feels right.

    The Bladerunner references are awesome as well :p.

  • Bravestinsane #26 9 months ago

    @Goodfella

    ahh my friend told me it wasn't battlefield either :p

    Nah, most are just sleeping, but wont wake up, which is a pain lol, the civilians should wake them up so i can knock them out again lol

  • Sevens #27 9 months ago

    Well, surely they didn't notice that problem before.

  • SvennoJ #28 9 months ago

    Does the patch fix the mouse lag too? Frame rate dips while turning around, and it seems to be a forgotten art to poll the mouse independently of the screen updates. I had to turn of v-sync to be able to stop overshooting while turning.

    And what's up with the fmv. Pre-rendered fmv is supposed to look better then in engine, instead it is low res with lots of compression artifacts, darker and more saturated. Not too surprising since the pc game came on a single dvd.

  • dirtysteve #29 9 months ago

    saw an odd bug in the opening level, the doctor behind the glass got stuck in his bind pose. wonder if it's been fixed, if not, I should probably submit a bug report. Although after spending some time on the support forum for Crysis 2, i'm reluctant to go near another one.

  • apoc_reg #30 9 months ago

    i didn't play it pre patch but in its current state its an awesome version of the game. Feels perfect in KB&M but also seamless to lazy couch gamepad gameplay.

    Well done Nixxis!!!