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Gun Metal

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For the unrelated first-person shooter, see Gunmetal.

Gun Metal
Gun Metal cover
Developers
Rage Software
Windows Yeti Studios
Publishers
NA Strategy First
EU Zoo Digital Publishing
Steam Funbox Media Ltd
Release dates
Windows September 23, 2003
Gun Metal on HowLongToBeat
Gun Metal on IGDB
Gun Metal on MobyGames
Gun Metal on Wikipedia

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\FrontEnd
  2. Delete or rename CGPlayed_01.wmv, CGPlayed_01_h.wmv, Intro1_ps.wmv, Intro1_ps_h.wmv, Intro2_ps.wmv, and Intro2_ps_h.wmv.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\persist.dat[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/267920/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\SavedGames\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/267920/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.
Advanced settings.
Advanced settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Stretched from 4:3. Aspect Ratio option adds letterboxing.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Aspect Ratio option sets slightly higher FOV via letterboxing.
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See Windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Probably 4x. Can be forced to 16x in the GPU control panel.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Up to 8x MSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Gameplay is capped at ~30 FPS, even if FPS counters show higher numbers.[1]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Windowed

Force windowed[citation needed]
  1. Download and run DxWnd.
  2. Click on Edit, then Add.
  3. Set the name and executable path.
  4. Set the window position and size.
  5. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed.
  6. Click OK, then File and Save.

Input

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Effects, Speech.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Italian
Retail release only. Digital version is english only.
Spanish
Retail only translation available.

Issues fixed

"Unsupported graphics card" error on launch

Set compatibility mode[citation needed]
  1. Go to the properties for Gunmetal.exe.
  2. Set the Windows Compatibility Mode to XP Service Pack 3.
  3. Click OK to apply the change.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) 900 MHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 750 MB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 256
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References