Thank you all so much <3 A ton of great info you gave me :] I hooked up an Athon XP 2000+ which runs at 1.6 GHz and I have 2x512 MB Kingston DDRam, this is a Micro ATX board so not much room for stuff, also it goes up to 2GB anyway. Let me tell you that my initial motivation for this system was to play Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance PC on Windows XP SP1, yes thats right folks I said WinXP SP1. For some very strange reason that game only runs well on SP1 and once you upgrade to SP2 and SP3 some ingame videos will show glitches. Sorry that I posted in the wrong forum but basically this is what I mean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVitilF2gZI
I initially thought the green screen glitch is direct X based but it is not ! It seems it only happens on WinXP SP2-3 maybe someone who knows the big difference between SP1 and SP2-3 can shed some light into why this screen glitch could only happen in SP2-3 because it does not happen with SP1 running DX9.0c I tested it and it works !
MGS2PC also works fine on Win7 64Bit with the 2.0 patch and 2 soundfiles added but that damn green screen still will show up during the tanker scene, I installed the game on my laptop which runs Win7 64bit home and the game runs at full perfect speed, maybe I will dual boot the laptop in WinXP SP1 to see how MGS2 runs but I dont like to mess around with the hard drive of the laptop so much 😒 So I thought well I will just build an WinXP SP1 PC 😁 A good one at that ! Since my last motivation to build a Vintage PC was to run Resident Evil PVR and hot damn it runs great on the M3D and Tualatin 3 <3 But for MGS2 dual booting from that Vintage PC into WinXP wont cut it...
I installed MGS2 PC on my Vintage PC which also dual boots WinXP SP3, so I booted into WinXP SP3 and installed the game and I got the green screen during the colonels speech like shown in the video, now comes the funny part :] I said to hell with it and I reinstalled the original WinXP SP1 (2002) which has DirectX 8.1 pre-installed and guess what xD Even thou it says MGS2 PC is meant to be played in DX8.1 YOU CANT PLAY it in DX8.1 at all ! You have to run DX9c in WinXP SP1 ! Once I re-installed Windows XP SP1 and upgraded the DirectX to 9.0c Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance PC did show me the cutscenes correct and the projector showed me the images. So in conclusion, if you want to play MGS2 PC, just install WinXP SP1 on a powerful WinXP PC and upgrade your DirectX to 9.0c and have a ball with the game 😁 Since this is an awesome game I would say go grab the 8800 GTX AGP that one will chew even on Crysis a good bit 😁
The only big downside is of course that my Vintage PC is kinda slow for MGS2 🙁 it has a Pentium 3S tualatin 1.4 GHz and 780MB SDram (well mainly because I dual boot Win98SE on it as well, right ? ) so the WindowsXP dualboot is kinda lacking because of the hardware and MGS2 needs a strong CPU and a good graphics card, my two graphic cards on my Vintage PC are MSI Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra and of course the sweet Matrox M3D <3
so I thought maybe I will just build a new machine just for Windows XP Sp1 to run Metal Gear Solid 2 PC at full speed without the hardware limitation and maybe I try to dual boot Win98SE on the XP machine as well for testing purposes :] and well if this motherboard can handle Win98 maybe I will slap my Matrox M3D on it to see how Resident Evil PVR runs on it 😁 I just need time and testing thats all, cheers
PC Setup: Mainboard ASUS CUBX | CPU Intel Pentium III-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz | Memory 780 MB SDRam | Soundcard Creative SB Audigy SB0160 | GPUs Nvidia FX5900 Ulta Matrox M3D PCI | HDD 2x40 GB WD/Seagate | OS Win98SE and WinXPSP1 in dual boot