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Key points

For Windows 8 and later apply the Wild Metal Country fullscreen border fix.

General information

Rockstar Games's Official Wild Metal site

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Official website (unavailable)		Was available for free via Rockstars' "Rockstar Classics" series to mailing-list subscribers.^[1]
Steam (unavailable)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\DMA Design\Wild Metal Country\3DMA Settings^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12190/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\WinEnv\Configs\FrontEnd\PLAYERS^{[Note 3]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12190/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Video options.

Performance options.

Hardware Detect settings (HWDetect.exe).

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Output is stretched from 4:3.
Multi-monitor		Option in `HWDetect.exe` is only for choosing display to use (still stretched).
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS	Capped at 20 FPS

Input

Controls options.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Not used during gameplay
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio options.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		A3D 2.0.^[2] DirectSound3D with EAX 1.0^[3]

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Spanish

Issues fixed

Crash on startup

This may be caused by missing command line arguments

Solution 1 - Start Menu^{[citation needed]}
Open Start Menu and Select All Programs Locate `Rockstar Games\WMC\Wild Metal Country` Launch it from there You can also move the shortcut wherever you want

Solution 2 - Making your own shortcut^{[citation needed]}
Make a shortcut of `<path-to-game>\WinEnv\WinEnv.exe` Add `/h AUTO /f /a /p` command line arguments Now you can launch the shortcut

Window border visible in fullscreen mode

Wild Metal Country does not go fullscreen correctly on Windows 8 and later.

Apply the fix
Apply Wild Metal Country fullscreen border fix.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6
DirectDraw
Glide

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	205 MB
Video card (GPU)	1 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.1 compatible

Notes

↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (12190) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
↑ 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).

References

↑ Rockstar Classics - Free Downloads - last accessed on 2022-09-22
↑ Hot New Gremlin Games to Support Aureal A3D - Aureal.com (retrieved)
↑ Wild Metal Country preview - AVOC

[HKLM-2] Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

[Proton_path_note-3] 2.0 ^2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (12190) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (12190) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[gamedir-4] 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).

[1] Rockstar Classics - Free Downloads - last accessed on 2022-09-22

[5] Hot New Gremlin Games to Support Aureal A3D - Aureal.com (retrieved)

[6] Wild Metal Country preview - AVOC

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 '''Key points'''
 {{ii}} For Windows 8 and later apply the [https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/689-wild-metal-country-fullscreen-border-fix/ Wild Metal Country fullscreen border fix].
-{{--}} Downloadable and Steam versions removed for unknown reasons.<ref name="unavailability">[http://support.rockstargames.com/entries/24077828-Unavailability-of-Rockstar-Classics-downloads Unavailability of Rockstar Classics downloads : Rockstar Support]</ref>
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 {{Availability/row| Retail | | unknown | | | Windows }}
+{{Availability/row| official | https://www.rockstargames.com/classics | DRM-free | Was available for free via Rockstars' "Rockstar Classics" series to mailing-list subscribers.<ref>{{Refurl|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123143643/http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/?id=2|title=Rockstar Classics - Free Downloads|date=2022-09-22}}</ref> | | Windows | unavailable }}
 {{Availability/row| Steam | 12190 | Steam |  |  | Windows | Unavailable }}
 }}
-{{--}} The [http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/ Rockstar Classics] downloadable version has been removed until further notice.<ref name="unavailability"/>
 ==Game data==

Developers

	DMA Design
Publishers
	Gremlin Interactive
Release dates
Windows	May 15, 1999