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I'm giving Deus Ex a quick playthrough as a refresher before jumping into Human Revolution. In the interest of expediency, I've decided to cheat. ^.^

Normally, cheats must be re-enabled for each level when playing the original DX. I've encountered instructions on several sites (word-for-word identical instructions, so clearly copy/pasted) for permanently enabling cheats, but they aren't working for me:

Because you will need to redo this for every level, you can open up 'user.ini' and add 'bCheatsEnabled True' in the [DeusEx.DeusExGameInfo] section of the file to allow cheats to be activated forever.

Not only is that not working for me, it doesn't even look right compared to the rest of the file (space instead of =). With increasing desperation, I've tried adding that line (both verbatim and switching to an equal sign) to every section of both User.ini and DeusEx.ini which looks even remotely plausible — even creating a [DeusEx.JCDentonMale] section, just in case.

Does anyone know how to get this working? I'm running DX:GOTY version 1.112fm from Steam on Windows 7.

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  • @Raven Dreamer — Sorry for the rollback, but the question has nothing to do with Invisible War. That was just a bit of context. :-)
    – Ben Blank
    Commented Aug 29, 2011 at 23:47
  • from your question it sounded like you were trying to enable cheats in both games. Sorry for the confusion!
    – Raven Dreamer
    Commented Aug 30, 2011 at 0:20
  • Where is the user.ini file for steam users?
    – user15763
    Commented Dec 3, 2011 at 1:27
  • @xiao — It can be found at %SteamDir%\steamapps\common\deus ex\System, where %SteamDir% is the folder where Steam is installed (usually C:\Program Files\Steam or C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam).
    – Ben Blank
    Commented Dec 3, 2011 at 20:09
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    What is this "invisible war" thing? There are only two Deus Ex games - the original and Human Revolution. :P
    – kalina
    Commented Jul 16, 2012 at 9:55

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While I wasn't able to get the .ini-based solution to work, there is another approach. Although billed as being for "earlier versions", the -hax0r switch works quite well with 1.112fm.

To add this switch to a Steam copy of the game, right-click it in your Library and select Properties from the menu. Click "Set launch options…" and type -hax0r into the text box. Click OK, then Close. From now on, when you launch the game via Steam, cheats will always be enabled.

If you're not using Steam, instead right-click on the shortcut you use to launch the game and select Properties. At the end of the Target box, add a space, then -hax0r. Click OK and you're done. Cheats will be enabled any time you launch the game via that shortcut.

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  • what does "cheats will always be enabled" mean, though? if I run the game with this flag, there is no apparent way for me to pull up the "talk menu" to input any cheat codes.
    – Mike 'Pomax' Kamermans
    Commented Nov 10, 2016 at 2:57
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The .ini file for Deus Ex can be found at %SteamDir%\steamapps\common\deus ex\System, where %SteamDir% is the folder where Steam is installed (by default C:\Program Files\Steam).

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    I know where the files are, the problem is that editing them as described doesn't enable cheats.
    – Ben Blank
    Commented Jul 16, 2012 at 16:42

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