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Wild Metal Country

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Wild Metal Country
Wild Metal Country cover
Developers
DMA Design
Publishers
Gremlin Interactive
Release dates
Windows May 15, 1999
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Wild Metal Country on Wikipedia
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Key points

For Windows 8 and later apply the Wild Metal Country fullscreen border fix.
Downloadable and Steam versions removed for unknown reasons.[1]

General information

Rockstar Games's Official Wild Metal site
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
The Rockstar Classics downloadable version has been removed until further notice.[1]

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 settings

Video options.
Video options.
Performance options.
Performance options.
Hardware Detect settings (HWDetect.exe).
Hardware Detect settings (HWDetect.exe).

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Input settings

Controls options.
Controls options.

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Audio settings

Audio options.
Audio options.

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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]
  1. Open Start Menu and Select All Programs
  2. Locate Rockstar Games\WMC\Wild Metal Country
  3. Launch it from there
  4. You can also move the shortcut wherever you want
Solution 2 - Making your own shortcut[citation needed]
  1. Make a shortcut of <path-to-game>\WinEnv\WinEnv.exe
  2. Add /h AUTO /f /a /p command line arguments
  3. 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
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 205 MB
Video card (GPU) 1 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6.1 compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
  3. ↑ 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