Metal gear solid on Parallels - any luck?

[Guido WalterP]

Hello everybody!

I am trying to play Metal Gear Solid 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_Substance) on Parallels Desktop 5.0.9308 running on a MacBook Pro. I managed to perform a full installation of the game but, when I try to run it, I get a black screen. The game's SFX and music, though, work flawlessly.

Looking at the log file of the game, I found these lines:
/*-- Graphics System Daemon Start --*/
Selected Devicearallels Video Adapter
Device[0]arallels Video Adapter

and, several lines below:

X2W_ErrorPrintfID:ID 8

I also installed the latest DirectX from Microsoft website, but nothing changed.

Any idea or suggestion?

Thank you very much,

Guido

 

[Guido WalterP]

Oooops... I overlooked two important details:

1) I am running Parallels with 3D acceleration and 64Mb of video memory;
2) I forgot to quote the most important part of the log file:

/*-- Graphics System Daemon Start --*/
Selected Devicearallels Video Adapter
Device[0]arallels Video Adapter
Can't Find Devicearallels Video Adapter

Sorry for that.

Cheers,

G.

 

[I-che]

Hello Guido,
we will check the issue with Metal Gear Solid 2. Thank you for information.

 

[Shaddam IV]

maybe you could try upping the vid memory to 128 mb?

 

[Guido WalterP]

@Shaddam IV

Thank you for the suggestion, but raising video memory to 128MB did not help.

Cheers,

Guido

 

[Yu-Ou WANG]

I've some problem with Metal gear solid 1

Water effect during the intro (with the submarine) is buggy