DDL wrote:Incidentally, the no-cd crack for deusex is simply to find the CDPath line in deusex.ini and either blank it (so the CDPath is an empty field) or to delete the entire line.
There really is no problem with posting this, least of all here.
Now I don't know how kentie's launcher works, but for the record, if you simply doubleclick on HDTP.exe, you'll get deus ex. Not HDTP. All HDTP.exe is, is a renamed Deusex.exe.
The reason we have a separate executable is so we can make a unique shortcut: the shortcut is where the important stuff happens. In the shortcut itself you can specify not only which executable it points to, but also which ini and userini files to use: THAT is basically the key point. HDTP.ini is a direct copy of deusex.ini, only with additional lines to both load the HDTP packages, AND to route the entire package search through the HDTP folder first, so instead of loading the vanilla Deusex.u package (which contains no HDTP references) it loads the HDTP version of deusex.u (with all the requisite HDTP references).
I hope that for the full HDTP release, there is a program which will do things like copy your deusex.ini and then add the lines etc so that people who already have things like custom renderers installed and configured won't lose their settings, which has caused no end of trouble both for me and others who try to set it up, so eventually I gave up with that solution and just added them to the standard deusex.ini.
Also, IIRC, deus ex always tries to load the ini with the same name as the executable, which means HDTP.exe should theoretically still work when run without a shortcut