Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Fix

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This is a fix that adds custom resolutions, ultrawide support and much more to the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection.

Featured by:
IGN (Video Guide) • IGN (Best Mods List) • Digital Foundry / Eurogamer • PC Gamer • Rock Paper Shotgun • Ocelot (YouTube)

Games Supported

• Metal Gear 1/2 (MSX)
• Metal Gear Solid 2
• Metal Gear Solid 3

Metal Gear Solid 1 / Metal Gear 1/2 (NES)

• For Metal Gear Solid 1 and the Vol 1. Bonus Content (MG1/2 NES), using MGSM2Fix is recommended.

Features

• Custom resolution/ultrawide support.
• Experimental 16:9 HUD option that resizes HUD/movies (MGS2/MGS3).
• Borderless/windowed mode.
• Mouse cursor toggle.
• Mouse sensitivity adjustment (MGS3).
• Launcher skips (see ini to configure).
• Skip intro logos (MGS2/MGS3).
• Option to disable pausing on alt-tab.
• Option to force the game to output stereo audio, which corrects the infamous "rain is louder than codec conversations" issue. PR #162
• Adjustable anisotropic filtering (MGS2/MGS3).
• Option to disable bilinear texture filtering, giving the games a pixel art/retro appearance. PR #138
• Increased texture size limits (MG1/MG2/MGS3).
• Adds support for custom PS2 controller glyphs without overwriting existing textures.
• Option to force Snake / Raiden to wear their sunglasses (and outright disable their sunglasses.)
• Option to continue aiming your gun after firing it while in first-person/while holding lock-on.
• Toggleable wireframe modes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes the collection's games sometimes defaulting to intergrated graphics processors on systems with multiple GPUs (due to Nvidia/AMD driver misconfiguration.)
• Fixes gameplay/cutscene aspect ratio for ultrawide resolutions (MGS2/MGS3).
• Fixes window size on displays with High DPI scaling enabled. PR #127
• Fixes the monitor going to sleep during long cutscenes (for Windows only, Linux needs to be fixed by Valve.
• Fixes the Steam Cloud related "DAMAGED SAVE" / "CORRUPT SAVE" issue.
• Fixes water surface rendering (MGS3). See PR #71 for a breakdown of the issue.
• Fixes crashes, audio desync, timer delays, and broken loading zones bugs caused by alt-tabbing the game. (For speedrunners who utilize this bug to skip forced codec calls, this bugfix can be forced off in the ini.)
• Fixes the bug where your character would start aiming right away after re-equipping a gun that was drawn when you put it away.
• Fixes the bug where your character would stop aiming their gun while holding L1 when you fully tilt your joystick.
• Fixes various visual effects which ran at double speed, causing them to end early compared to on the PS2 (these issue even occur on PCSX2/PS2 emulation) (MGS2).
• Fixes vector effects / line based rendering scaling (ie rain, lasers, bullet trails.) PR #140
• Fixes UI scaling. PR #181
• Fixes broken skybox initialization procs (MGS2). PR#142

Logging / Warnings for Common Configuration Issues

• Warnings for common mod compatibility & installation issues - which often result in crashes.
• Warnings if your game's audio is muted via the game's main launcher.
• Logging for Steam Input's controller status (ie detected controllers, keybinds, ect.)

Installation

🚩 If updating from a previous version of MGSHDFix:

• Delete d3d11.dll from your game folder.
• Delete old MGSHDFix files (e.g., MGSHDFix.ini and MGSHDFix.asi) before installing the update.

Steps:

1. Grab the latest release of MGSHDFix from here.
2. Extract the contents of the release zip into your game folder.
   • (e.g., steamapps\common\MGS2 or steamapps\common\MGS3 for Steam.)
3. Set both "Internal Resolution" & "Internal Upscaling" to Default / Original in the game's launcher. (Resolution is entirely handled by MGSHDFix.)

Steam Deck/Linux Additional Instructions

🚩 These steps are only needed if you’re on Steam Deck/Linux. Skip if you’re using Windows.

• Open up the game properties of either MGS2/MGS3 in Steam and add the following line to the launch options:

   `WINEDLLOVERRIDES="wininet,winhttp=n,b" %command%` 
  

Configuration

• See MGSHDFix.ini in the /plugins folder to adjust settings for the fix.

Known Issues

Please report any issues you see. This list will contain bugs which may or may not be fixed.

MGS 2

• Strength of post-processing may be reduced at higher resolutions. (#35)
• Various visual issues when using the experimental HUD fix. (#41)

MGS 3

• Strength of post-processing may be reduced at higher resolutions. (#35)
• Various visual issues when using the experimental HUD fix. (#41)

Screenshots

Metal Gear Solid 2

Metal Gear Solid 3

Building

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Lyall/MGSHDFix.git
cd MGSHDFix

Windows

Open MGSFPSUnlock.sln in Visual Studio (2022) and build.

Credits

@Lyall for their amazing work making widescreen fix mods, and most importantly, the original creation of this mod!
@ShizCalev/Afevis for long-term maintenance (taking over the project in early 2025), and contributing fixes.
@emoose, @cipherxof, @Bud11, and Zenf0 for contributing fixes/features.
Ultimate ASI Loader for ASI loading.
inipp for ini reading.
spdlog for logging.
safetyhook for hooking.