Metal Gear Solid

SortOff · Post by **SortOff** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:39 pm

Does anyone know how to play Metal Gear Solid with hardware support on new video cards? If this is possible of course.

Post by **hfric** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:52 pm

what part ?
1 works great on 8800 , 2 needs the nvidia patch , they even work in vista

SortOff · Post by **SortOff** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:42 pm

Metal Gear Solid 1. It works only in software mode for me. 7600GS.

Post by **hfric** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:43 pm

will tell you tomorrow will test it on my old card (7600gs)

SortOff · Post by **SortOff** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:45 pm

Respect.

Narfous · Post by **Narfous** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:53 am

this is mainly because nvidia gunked up pre-dx9 support in their later drivers, it's not the games' fault

the game works dandy and perfect on r9800pro.

PCG342 · Post by **PCG342** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:53 am

Let's ask a more important question: Is anyone able to play MGS with only a keyboard?

Post by **hfric** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:33 pm

PCG342 wrote:Let's ask a more important question: Is anyone able to play MGS with only a keyboard?

finished it 14 times with a keyboard , don`t know whats funny about it ?

Anyway this makes me go

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the GeForce 6 series and onwards don't have hardware support for paletteized textures. The geforce FX did, but it only supports it with drivers 77.77 or earlier drivers as with any FW newer than that there's no support.

So blame it all on Nvidia , Ati GFX cards even know uses paletteized textures

CONCLUSION :
So like the Ms with they DX10 is cutting out dx 6-8 support to have more speed for new games the same is doing Nvidia with they new GFX , the only way to play this game with DX9 hardware acceleration (paletteized textures) is through a PS emulator

TRANSLATION TO HUMAN :
In the future you will need two computers one that support dx 1 to 9 , the other one for dx 10 - 19 , to play old and new games , this makes me go GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrr and say a big F to the PC and say hello console

@SortOff :
So what this all means to you , it means get the PS version and a emu and play , sorry can`t help more about it

Narfous · Post by **Narfous** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:11 pm

Geforce256 and up and Radeons (all of them) don't support palletized textures either; they've always converted to 32-bit at runtime in the driver. They do not support them natively.

You can try using its software renderer. If you're desperate for 3d accelleration, set up a Ubuntu partition and try WINE'ing it through

SortOff · Post by **SortOff** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:30 pm

I prefer to install my old FX card. It will be easier to me.

PCG342 · Post by **PCG342** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:50 pm

Okay, I know this may be more work than it's worth but since all newer cards will have this problem....
why not dual-boot with two installations of Windows, one for older games and one with newer games, then take your older card (hope you've got a free slot for it) and stick that in, disable the newer one in the "old games" windows installation (make it 98, why dontcha?) and go ahead and disable the older one in the "new games" installation (not sure if it'd make any difference either way, but why not...) by using the Windows Device Manager
The only drawback to this is that you have to keep switching which card your monitor is connected to.
Conversely, you could also switch to a dual-display setup and eliminate that problem.

There's my suggestion. Make of it what you will.

SortOff · Post by **SortOff** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:57 pm

And what FREE SLOT do you mean? I have ONE agp slot in my motherboard and TWO agp videocards.

Your suggestions are useless for me. Thanks anyway.

Post by **hfric** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:10 pm

wonders me if it would work if you would install win98 with old dx 8 , probably not because the drivers would not work in old win98 for a new Pci-express card , but still wonders me if it would recognize Pci-e

PCG342 · Post by **PCG342** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:49 pm

Sorry guys, just a suggestion. I've got an old PCI card and a newer AGP, so I wouldn't have a problem, but I can't be buggered to try it.

PCG342 · Post by **PCG342** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:51 pm

hfric wrote:wonders me if it would work if you would install win98 with old dx 8 , probably not because the drivers would not work in old win98 for a new Pci-express card , but still wonders me if it would recognize Pci-e

Depends on if you can get ANY PCI-E drivers for Win98. You'll have to let me know -- I'm curious about that one, myself...