Metal Gear Solid was quite probably the best game you’ll ever play on the Sony Playstation & has at last been ported over the PC. Combining a wide variety of gameplay styles & elements it’s still a fairly essential game to have.

You can download the Demo of Metal Gear Solid from 3DFiles if you haven’t purchased it yet.

Troubleshooting/Updates

Begin by downloading & installing the latest drivers for your Video card, Soundcard & Game Controller. This may solve (most) display, audio or controller related problems you might encounter. There are links to various manufacturers on the Drivers page.

You also need DirectX 7.0A or higher installed & hardware which supports it. This is included with the Metal Gear Solid CD, so (re) install it if necessary.

If when you try start Metal Gear Solid you receive an error message stating - Mgsi executed an invalid instruction in module Mgsi.exe, your system is either lacking proper MMX support or does not meet the Minimum system requirements for Metal Gear Solid. Accordingly, you will need to update certain components of your system, be it CPU, RAM or whatever. The Minimum system requirements being a Pentium II 233, 32MB RAM & 4MB graphics card.

Should any Metal Gear Solid patches be released, be sure to install them, although currently none exist.

If you experience static noise or irregular audio playback, try the following (assuming that installing the latest soundcard drivers doesn’t fix the problem):

1.       Click on Start, Settings, then Control Panel.

2.       Open the Multimedia (Sounds and Multimedia in Windows 2000/Millennium Edition) icon.

3.       Select Audio tab, then for the Sound Playback setting hit the Advanced Properties/Advance button.

4.       Select the Performance tab.

5.       Move the Hardware acceleration slider to the 2nd or 3rd notch from the Left (Basic/Standard acceleration). Move the Sample rate conversion quality slider to the middle notch (improved sample rate converter).

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