Deus Ex: Invisible War problem!

[Sang]

Using some ninja solutions like editing INI files and using Hex Editors I managed to get a 16:10 aspect ratio with 1440x900 resolution but there's an issue that remains (before you ask, this issue also popped up playing it with standard game files ;)) which is that every time it has to load something, it goes back to my desktop for a bit before going back to the loading screen. It's like it alt-tabs out automatically for a few seconds or something.

This is a minor issue but it's pretty annoying, so I wonder if any of you know how to do something about that? (the answer is not "play a better game", tried that but it doesn't make IW run any better :))

[someguy2435]

I think it just does that regardless of resolution. It seemed to do that to me when I played using just the default resolutions.

[NutWrench]

That also happens in Thief: Deadly Shadows, which also uses the Unreal 2 engine (and was also made by Eidos). There's even a dummy variable in one of the Deus EX:IW configuration files called "Light Gem" :D

I think Eidos was hoping a develop a standardized platform for all their games and the resolution switching was an unavoidable side effect of tweaking these games for the PC. (I'm going to bet this problem doesn't happen in the console version.)

[Sang]

I've looked around a bit and on one site I read that the way DXIW works is that rather than doing what most games to do load a level.. the game just restarts with the correct level loaded or something like that.. it would then seem logical to be thrown out of the game for a quick sec.