Deus Ex: Mankind Divided launched on the PC yesterday with quite a few issues, which Eidos Montreal hope to have taken care of with the first patch release.
The patch updates the game v1.0 build 524.7 and focuses on “critical issues users ran into immediately following release.” These primarily deal with major crash issues rather than performance fixes, as the patch notes say:
- Fixed crashes caused by third-party programs interfering with the game.
- Fixed crash that occurred after viewing the intro videos.
- Fixed issue that could cause a crash at the end of the Prague intro scene.
- Fixed mouse invert setting not being displayed correctly in the options menu.
These come with an additional note by Eidos Montreal, suggesting to turn off MSAA: “We are seeing people reporting performance issues when playing the game on Very High/Ultra settings with MSAA set to 2x, 4x, or 8x. We would like to emphasize again that these options are very demanding,” Eidos Montreal said. “We recommend everyone that is running at recommended spec or higher to start with the High Preset and MSAA turned off, and then tweak the options to optimize your experience.”
As people with the high end hardware are also experiencing problems, it’s uncertain what is the best configuration for the optimal experience. The officially released specs only talk about components needed to run the game at 1080p, which is well below the resolution some people actually want to play at. Let’s hope theses issues are fixed soon.
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