Metro 2033 Forum

The games opening video runs well; full-screen, no unwanted cursors, audio/video in sync. Then when you get to the main menu (which is a full 3D environment) it runs fine. New Game leads to some VO during a loading screen which runs fine. However, at the instant you follow the Press Any Key To Continue prompt, you get a fatal exception.

Restarting the game gives a Safe Mode option. This lets you get past the point of the fatal exception above, but gives another when you get into your first gunfight.

So, there is literally no way to actually play the game, hence my Known Not To Work rating.

Might be worth noting that you get this dialogue on starting the game:

[System Error heading]

D3D: Your NVIDIA video driver needs to be upgraded - system can be unstable! Download latest driver from http://www.nvidia.com/Download.index.aspx

[OK button]

I have a 17-inch MBP with Core 2 Duo 2.93 GHz, 4 GB of RAM and was using the 9600M GT with 512 MB of VRAM at the time (as opposed to the 9400M with 256 MB of VRAM).

I have gotten this game to run under wine(wine-1.2-rc3) on ubuntu 10.04 but I can't get steam to install - the steam install basically just hangs. The performance of the game is much less than stellar. The controls react slowly so all the enemies are easily able to kill me. It's not my hardware, it is a software problem (if I boot to win7 and the game runs fine but I would rather not run MS).

I installed CO-Games 9 instead of CO-Pro and I was able to install Steam and run the game but good grief, the performance is embarrassingly poor (in fact, unplayable using any reasonable definition of the word). It is not my hardware since the game runs quite well on the same exact hardware with Win7 (using DX9 but with the graphics otherwise set to full-tilt). It's a shame as it's a fairly entertaining game.

As an update, I have gotten the game to run reasonably well at 102x768 with Alsa sound. It is very playable but the performance still leaves something to be desired. When run on the same hardware using Win7 the game runs very well. So there is still something not quite up to snuff.