In what could also be a land pace document for highlighting the inadequacy of a PC port, modder Serge has printed a small device for the brand new Steel Gear Strong: Grasp Assortment ports that permits them to run at 4K or different resolutions. Regardless of Konami’s complicated claims over the previous couple of months, gamers discovered at the moment that the emulated HD remasters of Steel Gear Strong 2 and three each render at 720p on PC, which makes for a very blurry image on greater decision 1440p or 4K screens. This mod, which was launched roughly 10 hours after the video games unlocked on Steam, fixes that. It’s 64.5 kilobytes.
I examined the MGSResolutionPatch within the opening minutes of Steel Gear Strong 3, setting the sport to render at 3840×2160 (4K). The distinction in picture high quality is stark.
It is potential that this decision change breaks a few of the sport’s visible results, which have been designed very particularly across the PlayStation 2’s {hardware}. From the opening minutes, nonetheless, it seems flawless.
And as eagle-eyed gamers of the sport have identified (on Resetera, for instance), a few of these results have been already modified within the porting course of to the PlayStation 3 within the 2011 HD Assortment, which this launch relies on. Sticking to this decision for 3D video games in 2023 stays a baffling alternative, particularly as a result of there are some components of the video games Konami has gone in to change, to right a number of glitches that exist within the HD Assortment. Surfacing a decision possibility for gamers would’ve gone an extremely great distance in soothing anger at this remaster.
The MGSResolutionPath apparently causes some UI points in Steel Gear Strong 2 (or quite, altering the decision on the whole causes these points)—however I’ve a suspicion modders will likely be fast to unravel that drawback within the coming days, earlier than scrutinizing the 2 video games for some other visible oddities attributable to rendering at 4K.
To vary the decision in MGS2/3, simply comply with the straightforward directions on the Github web page linked above; you may must obtain a D3D11 file and the decision patch, then stick each within the sport’s set up folder. You possibly can then open the MGSResolutionPatch.ini to configure the decision (it defaults to 4K).
