Deus Ex: Human Revolution PC update cuts down loading times

by David Hinkle on Aug 25th 2011 9:40PM

Fact: nobody wants to sit through long loading times. Today's PC patch for Deus Ex: Human Revolution should cut down the time. According to the patch notes on Steam, some machines have seen load times decreased by over 50%.

On top of the load times, a start-up crash affecting certain AMD/ATI hardware configurations has been addressed. Mouse sensitivity has also been tweaked, which should hopefully alleviate that problem you had where you would keep running up to dudes and punching them in the face, over and over again.

Oh, wait, that's how you're playing the game? Well, carry on then.

Source: Steam

Tags: deus-ex-human-revolution, eidos, eidos-montreal, loading, loading-times, patch, pc, square-enix, steam, update, valve

Reader Comments (40)

patch is excellent and loading times have dramatically increased. My only issue is that there seems to be some slight graphical stuttering/jitter with ATI/AMD 6970, does anyone else notice this as well?

@Tradio
Increased you say?

@Tradio

I'm having trouble running it on two machines that are far beyond capable. Getting some jank in game, and hard crashes other times. I'm not going to load up the game for a few more days, wait for a couple more bugs to be ironed out.

@Tradio

What do you mean? I get a little laggy feeling once in a while.

Although, my frames per second are always above 55 FPS (when I look) on a single card. When I'm running SLI, I don't get this though.

Thought it was a small unoptimized glitch for Nvidia cards. (Being that this game is sponsored by AMD)

@Ellimem It's been running very smooth for me. You sure you have the latest drivers for your components?

@Tradio: I get the stuttering too on my HD4870X2. It goes away after a while but it's noticeable when I first enter an area or a new part of a given map. I suspect it's from loading texture data into VRAM.

Thank The Gaming God.

Waiting through 16 Seconds on a load screen every time I enter a new area/died/got caught was annoying.

My load times have been lowered to an average 7 seconds now. Which I'm cool with.

Thanks Edios. BTW: Great Game.

Wait PC update that improves preformance?

Is Ubisoft taking notes?

Too Soon?

@Scuffles

Never soon enough.

@Scuffles

Never too soon.

Dear Eidos,
You trying to get into my panties w/your PC support? You didn't even have to try so hard, I'm a pushover these days.

But why did it have long load times to begin with?
Don't these people test their games.

@Resident Evil 6 Puppy Madness

Not everyone did, it was mostly Nvidia Cards that I read had this issue or lower end cards, I never had this issue as I was able to load up in about 10-15 seconds but others had about 30sec-1min.

@Stilkdog My 6970 and 6Gbps HDD would beg to differ with your statement.

@Stilkdog It clearly had nothing to do with cards. My computer handles this game perfectly without any issues, suddenly my load times are 50 to 75% less.

No offense, but I think your seconds count might have been off lol

Ive heard alot about the load times on consoles and pc. I hate long load times. But ive been playing it on a console, load times seem normal to me. Maybe its the same people thats told me crysis 2 looked great on consoles. I can think of 100 games on each console that look better. Someone out there is smokin dat weed. Deus is great so far, by the way.

@SolidDuck

That is because the load times on the consoles are pretty normal compared to other console games.

Deus Ex: HR on the PC with load times of 18 Seconds is super slow compared to other PC games.

and btw; list those 100 games, on each console, that look better than Crysis 2.

I'm not a fan of Crysis 2 but, it is in the top 10 of best looking console games.

I was complaining about loads times to myself last night and then today they were drastically shorter. It seems like 85% faster than before. Were it would take 15 - 30 seconds before it takes between 3 and 5 seconds now. So I looked at the update history and what do you know, they fixed the load times and some other stuff. Im happy.

I havent had any graphical issues or any issues at all. Im using an XFX Radeon 5870.

Playing through the 360 version the load times aren't as bad as I thought. They're still kind of annoying but it's not like we're talking about DNF.

@Faceless Troll

when i was running off disk, they were around 25 seconds. after install to HDD, it's around 16 seconds or so. not great, but not terrible.

Mine has been plagued with crashing. Crashed 8 times in one sitting.

Still logged about 12 hours so far, so I guess I haven't cared much :P

@FreakSheet

8 times in one sitting? How long was that sitting? I'm only about 3 hours in but the game has been rock solid.

I used to have frequent game crashes before I disabled Windows 7's Timeout Delay and Recovery in the registry. The system's been solid ever since.

ST

I was disappointed cause I installed it on an SSD drive and the load times were still 15-20 seconds or so. Now with this update they dropped to 3 seconds. So I'd say there was a pretty serious bug in the game before the update.

Is this game worth a buy? It's had good reviews across the board and is supposed to be a worthy successor to the original, but I've never played the original.

@Iron Man

It's like cyberpunk Morrowind.

Kinda.

So, yes.

@Iron Man it is a great and worthy successor to the original, and if you like Mass Effect/Metal Gear Solid with a touch of BladeRunner/Neuromancer cyberpunk, you're gonna love it

i tried some demos on onlive and that thing is FREAKING AMAZING! im going out to buy this on the pc when i got the cash just so i can have both copies

I've not had this stuttering problem at all, guess I'm lucky.

The patch made a HUGE difference in the load times, though. I did a half-assed count yesterday and some would be 30 seconds, some almost 40.

Now I get load times of between 10 and 18 seconds.

I had a slight stuttering problem at the start but its since reduced greatly. This patch has really decreased load times by almost half so I'm happy.

So far I'm rather impressed with the game. The last PC shooter I bought was Brink, so maybe its almost too easy to love this game in comparison :)

Load times on the Xbox 360 after install aren't bad at all.

when from about 15 second loads down to about 5 for loading a save. Good job Eidos! :] love the game so far! only beat the first boss but doing some side quests in the city! so far 13 hours in according to steam.

just noticed the shorter load times while playing, didn't see it in the patch notes til later but definitely noticed it.

now if they can just fix the glitch in the Family Ties side mission, i got the achievements using an older save file, but those 1000xp would be nice.

your move Squeenix

Such an incredible game.

I just wish they would add hold to crouch instead of just toggle.

@QuePasa87
Can do that in the console version. Know what you can't do though? Rebind the buttons! Whose bright idea was it to have L1 as the cover system and R3 (clicking the right thumbstick) as the zoom? They need to be educated.

@kevin949

isn't R3 to zoom standard on applicable weapons in Halo games? Can't say that's a foreign setting. Even though LT should always be zoom in a shooter.

I actually noticed the mouse sensitivity more than I noticed decreased load times. It was really hard to aim and even look around at first because it would keep going a little bit after you stopped moving the mouse, but after the patch it was fine. Headshots everywhere!

Its really nice when developers patch games in days not weeks.

@AMonkey: Agreed. Loading times are great now whereas they were getting annoying before. Especially during parts that are easily prone to failure resulting in a lot of reloading.

I'm running this installed on my Xbox non-slim and the load times are not nearly as long as the IGN comparison video.

anybody else noticing this?

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Deus Ex: Human Revolution PC update cuts down loading times

Reader Comments (40)

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 9:44PM Tradio said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 9:48PM arucious said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 9:50PM Ellimem said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 9:53PM xiLeShadow said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 1:16AM donatom3 said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 2:05PM djnforce9 said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 9:50PM xiLeShadow said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 9:51PM Scuffles said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 11:02PM liquidsoap89 said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 11:45PM Tyran said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 9:58PM Assmar said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 9:59PM Resident Evil 6 Puppy Madness said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 10:12PM Stilkdog said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 11:13PM darksonic said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 11:15PM Softserve said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 10:09PM SolidDuck said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 10:17PM xiLeShadow said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 10:24PM Khazidhea said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 10:27PM Faceless Troll said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 12:43AM maveric101 said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 10:34PM FreakSheet said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 12:11AM Steel Toad said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 10:38PM Raffi256 said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 10:45PM Iron Man said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 10:56PM R Planteer said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 11:00PM burnsflipper said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 11:01PM Knives Chau said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 11:14PM Softserve said

Posted: Aug 25th 2011 11:46PM Tyran said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 12:04AM KungFuChaosNinja said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 12:24AM Accessgranted said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 1:25AM SolaceInSound said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 1:56AM QuePasa87 said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 1:56AM QuePasa87 said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 2:21AM kevin949 said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 3:38AM FakeJamaican said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 3:57AM Ospov said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 4:16AM AMonkey said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 2:06PM djnforce9 said

Posted: Aug 26th 2011 5:10PM iceveiled said

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Info

Description

MSRP

Release Date

Genre

Developer

Publisher

Rating

Breaking News

WB conjures up Harry Potter for Kinect this fall

Featured Stories

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is a stranger in a strange land

Silver Lining: I Am Alive's unfeeling world

Game Of Thrones and the paradoxes of adaptation

Engadget

TUAW

Massively

WoW