Hi, Hashi! The answer to all your problems is called the
Kentie Launcher. This is your best bet to play Deus Ex on modern systems.
This is common knowledge for people around these parts so apology if my post feels somewhat redundant:
Kentie Launcher (Official Site)
For years I didn’t use the Kentie Laucher. Heck! I just didn’t need it. I had such an old computer, ¾ CRT Screen with old OS to boot. So I didn’t need a third party program to run DX.
Now when you switch to an LCD screen and/or a modern OS, then you
will need the Kentie Launcher (unless you prefer to fiddle with .ini files and waste time ^^). When this tool is installed every time Deus Ex, or a fan-made mission, is started the Kentie Launcher window will pop up. It allows to change a lot of values. Among other things:
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Custom Resolution,
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Renderers: OpenGL, DirectX,
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Field of view: for 16/9e Screen I advise a FOV around 94. And this answers your question about the POV ^^,
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Use Custom GUI Scaling: (to fix the small size of the UI), if you're playing on 1920x1080 try size "x2",
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Latency (sound): on modern systems gamers often experience a sound issue: an irritating crackling, static effect. Increasing the Latency usually fixes the issue (changing the value from 40 and to 60 should work. If not set a higher value),
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The bonus when using the Kentie Launcher is that every
Save - original Deus Ex or fan-made missions - are registered separately in a different folder. Great way to keep your progress when switching from game to game.
The basic mistake beginners make when using the Kentie Launcher for the first time:
They erroneously unzip the Kentie Launcher in the root "Deus Ex folder", this is wrong. The good way is to unzip
Kentie Launcher in
DeusEx/System.
EDIT: GMDX, Deus Ex Nihilum and Revision already have the Kentie Launcher is their installers.
Note 1: To use the Kentie Launcher you'll also need
Visual Studio 2015 runtimes (available on kentie’s site too).
Note 2: I wish I answered you question earlier, Hashi. Sincerely sorry, mate.