Metal Gear Solid Forum

OSX: Snowleopard
Graphics: Nvidia 9400M

This C4P file will install Metal Gear Solid.
After installation you need to set some things first:

1. This game contains CD copy protection (DRM).
2. The first time the game starts, it probably crash, force exit (type Command-Option-R) That's the shortcut for the Restore Display item
   in CrossOver's Window menu and it gets you out of full-screen mode. From there, you can use tools in the Manage Bottles window to clean
   up stuck processes -- the Task Manager or the Quit Bottle/Force Quit Bottle buttons.
3. Second time you start the game it will say it will Render the game software, and it will start.
   After that it will not crash again in the future at the start up.
4. Then you will see this (don't panic!):

I know it is very tiny, but manage to go to options:

Then go advanced options:

Change resolution to 640*480, and go back to menu. It will ask to restart.
Then it will look normal again and you can play the game.

In the game (esc) or you can do it before you start, you need to set the controls.

Now you play!

HOWEVER:
There is one issue that came after 8.1.4, and that is that the game crashes when you die!

Very irritating, especially when fighting bosses. So save regularly! I will make a support ticket for that.

What says WhineHQ?
read it all here...

Made a Youtube clip of the game working in CxG 8.1.4: watch it here...

Have fun!

Paul The Tall

Paulthetall wrote:

1) Well in this case this crashes so hard that you cant do a thing
using taskmanager. Besides that Force Quit is very fast in contrast
of those other actions.
Anyway it whats the user wants.

Force quitting the app is a bad idea. It kills the X server, but may leave clients -- wine processes -- lying around, possibly stuck. That can cause problems on subsequent runs of CrossOver.

Also, force quitting CrossOver can potentially corrupt its files if they were being written at that moment, which neither the user nor we can control.

If Task Manager doesn't work, then the Force Quit Bottle button should. Don't recommend force quitting CrossOver except as a last resort when other methods fail.