Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance

What works

Everything works. The game is perfectly playable, despite some minor issues.

What does not

Workarounds

What was not tested

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

The guide below is still valid and necessary with the latest Wine release. The black border glitches are likely related to this output: fixme:d3d:swapchain_init The application requested more than one back buffer, this is not properly supported. Please configure the application to use double buffering (1 back buffer) if possible.

• ­­Start with a fresh wine prefix
• Run 'winetricks dsound directmusic'
• Copy msdmo.dll, dsdmo.dll and msadp32.acm from a local Windows installation to system32 (Note: the DLLs shipped with Windows 8 won't work, but you can easily find the files online)
• Run 'wine regsvr32 dsdmo.dll'
  
• Add overrides for msdmo, dsdmo and msadp32.acm via winecfg
• Install the game, apply the official 2.0 patch and GeForce/NoCD patch

• Occasional lags, especially during cutscenes, disabling the "Focus" should fix this
• Occasional graphical glitches with the black borders during cutscenes
• Pictures taken with the camera aren't displayed

Ideally,  if your 32bit wine is compiled with gstreamer and you have 32bit gstreamer installed along with its ffmpeg/libav plugin, the in-game video should work.

But if even in that case you get a black screen instead, try getting Windows XP's quartz.dll, run 'wine regsvr32 quartz.dll' and add override for it.