Gun Metal
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For the unrelated first-person shooter, see Gunmetal.
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Developers | |
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Rage Software | |
Windows | Yeti Studios |
Publishers | |
NA | Strategy First |
EU | Zoo Digital Publishing |
Digital | Funbox Media |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 23, 2003 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Shooter |
Vehicles | Flight, Robot |
Themes | Sci-fi |
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Steam | ||||
ZOOM Platform |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Delete/rename video files[citation needed] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\data\persist.dat[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/267920/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\data\SavedGames\[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/267920/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Stretched from 4:3. Aspect Ratio option adds letterboxing. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | Stretched from 4:3. Aspect Ratio option adds letterboxing. | ||
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
Use DxWnd[citation needed] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | Strong mouse acceleration. Can't be disabled. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music, Effects, Speech. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
German | Retail only; download for digital release. | |||
Italian | Retail only. | |||
Spanish | Retail only; download. |
Issues fixed
"Unsupported graphics card" error on launch
Run Gunmetal.exe in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP3.[citation needed]
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For Linux (Wine), download latest version of WineD3D, extract the archive, copy d3d9.dll and wined3d.dll to the game executable directory, add Native DLL overrides for the two DLLs you copied and run the game.
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | |
Processor (CPU) | 900 MHz | 1.4 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 750 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 256 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.0 compatible | Nvidia GeForce 3 |
Notes
- ↑ 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). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/267920/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (267920) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Horrible frame rate :: Gun Metal General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023