thiagott: Thanks for your answers! MysterD and Hurricane0440.
MysterD: Bloodlines was better at the immersive-sim thing than even Deus Ex: IW around that time.
thiagott: Good to know. it was not enough to convince me to buy Bloodlines, but I wish to try Deus Ex: IW now. (The fact that it is so much cheaper here is also important)
IW in particular is a royal pain to get running on modern hardware properly & to keep running properly, too - so good luck.
Deus Ex: IW is all killer and no filler, but also very disappointing.
IW dumbs-down a lot of what made the OG Deus Ex so great, both story-wise and RPG-wise. A lot of your choices in certain parts of the story just really won't matter b/c in the story, some stuff happens that ... [REDACTED stuff here].
Also, the unified-ammo mechanic's annoying. I wish we had say ammo specific to certain items, like we did in Deus Ex 1 and the other Deus Ex games. I really need someone to make a mod to fix & revamp that mess - but I'm dreaming here.
You need to basically stop running NVidia Experience and many other app's, just to keep it going & running.
And pretty much, running a 4gb patcher on it & Visible Upgrade Mod using is pretty much necessary here.
I had to run it in Windowed Mode and use Borderless Gaming just to also get it working right with a Pseudo type of Exclusive-Fullscreen, as it don't get along w/ W8-11 changes and/or any other DirectX changes. Some older DirectX 1-9 games IW, Dungeon Siege 1 and 2 (retail versions & Steam-versions), Space Siege, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout 3 and NV, and others don't get along with DirectX 10-12 (which is W8-11 stuff) and/or Windows 8-11 in general real well.
Also, it's a game not friendly w/ modern systems too. Like many older games, it might not get along w/ you got lots of cores and you might need to set the Affinity. That's often best to do w/ Process Lasso.
Save-scum a lot - as Deus Ex: IW likely is going to have performance issues and in the last area likely will crash a few times, especially when outside. If you played Deus Ex 1, IW goes full-circle - so you'll know the level I'm talking about, when you actually get there.
Certainly often worth the $1.50 or less on Deus Ex: IW you can get it for when it's on sale, ONLY if you can get it going and keep it remaining running & stable - but it's a real pain in the neck to do so and it so needs a real Revamp & Remastering to fix a lot of its problems, if you ask me.