Wild Metal Country
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| Developers | |
|---|---|
| DMA Design | |
| Publishers | |
| Gremlin Interactive | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | May 15, 1999 |
Key points
- For Windows 8 and later apply the Wild Metal Country fullscreen border fix.
General information
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
| Graphics feature | State | 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). |
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| 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 | ||
| Color blind mode | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Keyboard and mouse prompts | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | Not used during gameplay | |
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | ||
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Additional information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Input prompt override | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
| 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] | |
| Royalty free audio |
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] |
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| Solution 2 - Making your own shortcut[citation needed] |
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Window border visible in fullscreen mode
- Wild Metal Country does not go fullscreen correctly on Windows 8 and later.
| Apply the fix |
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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 | |||
| Storage drive (HDD/SSD) | 205 MB | |||
| Video card (GPU) | 1 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.1 compatible |
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Notes
- ↑ Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAREwill 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%\VirtualStoreon 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