Dialogue freezes can be triggered by the game's outdated audio library.
Conflicts between the game's renderer and modern display settings can lead to "soft locks" during dialogue: Deus ex human revolution dialogue crash fix
Set your default playback device to . Graphic & Display Adjustments Dialogue freezes can be triggered by the game's
Modern CPUs with many cores can cause the game to fail immediately or during heavy processing tasks. Deus ex human revolution dialogue crash fix
Open and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC (or Deus Ex: HR for the standard version). Find AllowJobStealing and set it to 0 .
Change Anti-Aliasing from MSAA to FXAA ; some users report MSAA causing freezes during intro meetings.