The Steam version has a lot of problems with modern hardware like crashing, freezing etc. Steam doesn't really do anything to make old games playable on modern hardware. They just sell the games and that is it.

Can't speak for every bug the game has, but it still crashed (badly, in fact - corrupted my save) when I reached Antarctica and started making my way through the VersaLife base. Until that point, the crashes would happen rarely and were not as severe (I had a few in the Cairo Arcology sections, that I recall).

This question seems to have been asked a few years ago as well, with a similar response - https://www.gog.com/forum/deus_ex_series/invisible_war_crash_issues

As far as I recall, the game ran flawlessly when I played through it a year ago (on Windows 8.1).

The GOG version or the Steam version or what?

I don't know, but what I know is they are different. GOG version can be played on Linux on wine just fine, while steam version will crash. So there is certainly improvement in GOG version

The PCGW entry for the game confirms as much - "The GOG.com version of Invisible War is treated as the UK version."

(Ugh, forum seems to be hating on the URL pretty hard so... no URL it is then)

The GOG version, naturally. I don't have a Steam account. :)

I may have run the game in compatibility mode though. It was probably running on my Intel HD Graphics 4000 card (either that or on NVIDIA GeForce 610M).

I didn't have any stability problems with it.

The only issue I remember having with the GOG version of DX:IW is that it would display my desktop instead of load screens. This did not happen with my original disc version and whatever PC I was running it on back when the game came out. The load screen issue did bother me a bit, so I set my wallpaper to solid black (I suppose I could have used a DX themed wallpaper) and all was good after that.

If you do have problems, it could be down to your particular hardware configuration, drivers and/or OS. The system I played through the GOG version on was my 2013 Alienware 17 laptop (Intel Core i7 4700MQ, 32GB DDR3 RAM, Nvidia GeForce 765M w/2GB, Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1), which is running Windows 8.1 Pro x86-64.

The Visible Upgrade mod fixes that loading issue.

I initially didn't have any problem with it occurring but once I came to realize just how frequently the game loads it became harder to simply ignore.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

They just sell the games... you'd almost say they were... a store. Woooow! Mind blown!

Thanks for this. Didn't know about this mod.

Steam fanboy detected. Inititializing remote bitch slap. Anyway, you could say a used car dealership that sells cars without brakes is still a used car dealership. And what kind of fool actually defends a digital games store selling games that aren't made to run on modern hardware? Do you, as a consumer, enjoy spending time and effort getting games to work on your hardware yourself or enjoy buying games and then having to get a refund? Seriously. "It's a store!" is a poor argument and makes you come off as a Steam fanboy or troll.

i have completed the game on steam over 5 times apart from random crashes while level loading sometimes , the only problem is the steam integration is broken after you launch the game as the game switches executable. so no game time tracking , no screenshots etc.

There are some basic fixes here
[url=https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Deus_Ex:_Invisible_War]https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Deus_Ex:_Invisible_War[/url]

not sure if the gog release is any different than the steam one, will try it out in windows 10 and get back.

Both releases are updated to the latest 1.2 version.

Curious: has anyone got Deus Ex IW going on Windows 11 from Steam? Retail? Or GOG?

With Visible Upgrade?
Without that mod?

Also, how does this game fend over on Linux?

SIDE NOTE - I have it from Retail and Steam. Might have to get it from GOG at some point, if GOG's version actually any better at this.

SHOULD NOTE - I have gotten it going fine before on W10 laptops loaded with even 4gb GTX 960m, but it's kind of a trip trying to get this one working on my W11 laptop with 6gb RTX 3060m.