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    Metal Gear Solid with hardware acceleration in XP and Vista

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mrsamsa, May 20, 2009.

  1. mrsamsa

    mrsamsa Notebook Evangelist

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    Thought some people might like to have it working.

    You need 2 fixes for it, one is available on gamecopyworld by searching for "Metal Gear Solid" It will allow you to use 3D acceleration on newer hardware.

    The other is a sound fix that prevents the game from crashing (as far as I know)
    Get it here: http://www.classic-pc-games.com/pc/arcade_action/metal_gear_solid.html

    I'm not sure if any of this gets close to NOCD/pirating territory, but it's the ONLY way to get MGS to work correctly on modern hardware (By modern I mean my EEE PC)
     
    mrsamsa, May 20, 2009
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  2. kisetsu17

    kisetsu17 Took me long enough

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    An EEE PC can run MGS?! You mean the PC version of MGS2 Substance, right?! So it would run with my rig!! (Crossing fingers)
     
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  3. mrsamsa

    mrsamsa Notebook Evangelist

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    I mean the PC version of Metal Gear Solid 1.
     
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    Necromancer90 Notebook Consultant

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    Eh, MGS1 beats MGS2 any day. :p
     
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  5. kisetsu17

    kisetsu17 Took me long enough

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    Oh. There is a PC version for it? Is it like MGS Twin Snakes, or just like MGS on the PlayStation?
     
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    Rahul Notebook Prophet

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    Its a port of the Playstation version of Metal Gear Solid and it comes with the VR missions that the Playstation version later got as a rerelease.

    Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance was also ported to the PC, but I hear it was a very poor port. Too bad Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4 haven't come to PC.


    I have heard that modern PCs now can emulate the Gamecube and even Wii with good speeds so you could possibly play Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes.
     
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  7. kisetsu17

    kisetsu17 Took me long enough

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    The GameCube Emu's and Twin Snakes don't really work that well, something about memory addressing that makes it slow. I just wish they decided to port Twin Snakes instead of MGS2 to the PC, since MGS 1 really beats the crap out of MGS2 in the storyline alone. Well for me that is.
     
    kisetsu17, May 21, 2009
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  8. mrsamsa

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    MGS has texture filtering and somewhat higher resolution than the PSX (1024x768) so it looks better.

    I'd heard that the MGS2: Substance port for PC was pretty good. IGN gave the PC MGS1 9.0 and MGS2: Substance 8.9, so I'd say they're both worth checking out if you've not played them before.

    Unrelated: I've been playing Snatcher, an earlier Hideo Kojima game on a SEGA CD emulator and it's pretty cool too.
     
    mrsamsa, May 22, 2009
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