This game has never worked. (for me anyways)

[HaughtyOpr8r]

I bought it over 2 years ago. I have never been able to get the damn thing to work. Tried changing administrator priviledges. Tried every compatibility. Closed my browsers. Set the affinity for 1 core. Wtf am i doing wrong?
No game that I have ever owned has given me as hard a time as this one has of TRYING to get to run. I get through the opening credits. It gives me a black screen after I do the character selection. It autosaves. It lets me go through the meeting billie thing. But the moment i try to leave it goes black screen on me. But thats not all. I ctrlaltdel my way to the task manager i close out everything. I end the application in its entirety. And 3-5 minutes after browsing the web looking for fixes. It reboots itself and loads the mission again. LIKE WAT THE F!? Then goes black sceen again and EVERYTHING is back and running on the task manager. IDK what the hell to do with this game. It was fun on xbox, but idk if its worth the hassle of dealing with this game anymore.

[Guydodge]

http://www.gamehelpzone.com/topic/deus-ex-invisible-war-loading-screen-fix.html
i dont know if you seen this but the second problem sounds very much like yours.about realtek drivers.

[HaughtyOpr8r]

Nope didn't help. Thanks tho. Not using realtek drivers. Dont have chrome open. Keeps giving me a Viktoria error, but everytime i try to view the error my comp start freaking out and wont tab it open and the one time i managed to get it on screen it wasn't in english so i couldn't effing read it to make sense of it. Just pisses me off.

[Jackal]

Could be the multiprocessor issue I was having on my 64 bit quad-core PC. Setting affinity didn't do a damn thing for me either. Try this to force the game to run on only one processor. The following is for the retail version of the game so you'll need to browse to where your Steam version is located to see if it will work for you. Good luck.

1) Download imagecfg from https://robpol86.com/guides/ImageCFG/ to your game system directory (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Deus Ex - Invisible War\System)
2) Start, Run, Type cmd.exe and hit enter
3) Type cd c:\Program Files (x86)\Deus Ex - Invisible War\System
4) Type copy "DX2.exe" "DX2.backup.exe"
5) Type copy "DX2Main.exe" "DX2Main.backup.exe"
6) Type copy "Ion Launcher.exe" "Ion Launcher.backup.exe"
7) Type imagecfg -u DX2.exe
8) Type imagecfg -u DX2Main.exe
9) Type imagecfg -u "Ion Launcher.exe"
10) Play game.

[Clovenhoof]

I've been fidgeting around with it to get it to run on my laptop for a while, tried all the most suggested solutions with limiting cpu core access and what not with no luck.

Well... what finally worked for me was to shut down all unneeded background apps - after that the loading works pretty much as expected. Saw a suggestion somewhere else also that for some reason Logitechs controller applications (have keyboard/mouse/gamepad myself) seems to have something to do with it so it might specifically be those only. At least the conclusion was finally some background software interfering with the loader.

I didn't even have to run it in any compatibility setting after that either.

[Elmanos.D]

Jackal - i get IMAGECFG :unable to map and load dx2.exe
IMAGECFG :unable to map and load dx2main.exe
Ion Launcher.exe contains no configuration information
Ion Launcher.exe contains a Subsystem Version of 4.0
Image can only run in uni-processor mode on multi-processor systems
Ion Launcher.exe updated with the following configuration information:
Image can only run in uni-processor mode on multi-processor systems
Image can only run in uni-processor mode on multi-processor systems

[Sneaksie(RUS)]

I've played it on Win 10 preview. All the problems come from the fact the application closes and restarts each level up (the entire game is an epitome of bad design or marketing decisions and technical limitations imposed by them). At first it seemed a no-go, but these steps made the game working:

1) I used the other exes found elsewhere that are not Steam protected. I'm not sure this is required though.
2) Used DXIW Widescreen patcher found at WSGF to set full HD resolution for my screen and correct FOV.
3) Shut down Skype completely, otherwise the game will wait for something from it each load for several minutes (discovered it via 'wait chain' Windows feature). I didn't just log off, but chose 'exit Skype'.
4) Made the game run in a window by adding StartupFullscreen=False into [WinDrv.WindowsClient] part of the <Your username>\Documents\Deus Ex - Invisible War\user.ini file. Without this step the game just crashed each load without starting a new process.

After this you can run the game and it should be able to function to a degree: it will crash each level change or load, but you can click 'close' in each crash report and new instance of the game will load up. In addition, your task panel will be visible at the bottom of the screen. Not very nice solution, but the game can be played through with it if you really want to complete the DX story like I wanted (DX: Human Revolution Directors Cut - original DX - this excuse for the finale).

[Rage]

Try this fix, it worked for me where others did not http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3065306

[BickBot]

Yeah, I've tried to get this game to work for a while. It never ran well. I'm just gonna move on to something else.

[AuDriunas]

I can only see the Process in Task Manager and green "-running" in My Library. It doesn't give me any error or errors. It's not even start or showing up on the screen. I have seen this "phenomenon" before when I had Second Sight on PC. I didn't found out what to do then.

[AuDriunas]

AVG was Disabled on Windows startup; when I launched DX:IW showed up "Unknown Threat" I pressed 'Allow'. Fine, I the game is running and loading but it crashes to desktop. I tried to run in windowed mode and there is an Error Message: Exception 0xC0000005: Access Violation;
I am using 2005 era laptop and still using Windows XP SP3 Home Edition 32-bit
Single Core 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 128MB integered video card supported Pixel Shader 2.0 and what's wrong to run this classic game?