Wild Metal Country
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| Developers | |
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| DMA Design | |
| Publishers | |
| Retail | Gremlin Interactive |
| Public Domain Release (2004) | Rockstar Games[1] |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | May 15, 1999 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | Freeware |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Third-person |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | Action, Shooter, TPS |
| Vehicles | Tank |
| Art styles | Realistic |
| Themes | Sci-fi |
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Wild Metal Country is a singleplayer third-person action, shooter and TPS game.
For Windows 8 and later, apply the Wild Metal Country fullscreen border fix.
General information
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | |
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| Official website (unavailable) | |
Was available for free via Rockstars' "Rockstar Classics" series to mailing-list subscribers.[2] | |
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| Steam (unavailable) | |
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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 | 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) | |||
| High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Capped at 20 FPS. | ||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
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 |
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| XInput-compatible controllers |
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| PlayStation controllers |
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| Generic/other controllers |
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| Additional information | ||
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| 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.[3] DirectSound3D with EAX 1.0[4] | |
| 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: Launch the game from the Start Menu shortcut[citation needed] |
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Solution 2 - Run the game with the /h AUTO /f /a /p command line arguments[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 Wild Metal Country fullscreen border fix. |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Direct3D | 6 | |
| DirectDraw | ||
| Glide |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| 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 |
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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
- ↑ Wild Metal Country now free - last accessed on 2023-07-06
- "Wild Metal Country is the second vintage Rockstar game to be released for free through its Classics series,"
- ↑ Rockstar Classics - Free Downloads - last accessed on 2022-09-22
- ↑ Hot New Gremlin Games to Support Aureal A3D - Aureal.com (retrieved) - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Wild Metal Country preview - AVOC - last accessed on 17 May 2023