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Steel Gear

A re-creation and re-imagining of the NES/MSX version of Metal Gear · By clintmich

Doesn't run on Windows 11?

A topic by generalgenius created Jun 12, 2023 Views: 230 Replies: 1
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Hi, it's been a long time since I've had to report anything, but apparently Steel Gear can't run on Windows 11? I get the attached pop-up message when I try to run the SteelGear.exe file. It appears even when I set the compatibility mode to Windows 8, and set it to run as an administrator. Were you already aware of this, or is this a new thing?

Please let me know if you need more information.

EDIT: OK, looks like it runs fine now. I did a DISM /restorehealth command on the administrator command line and then restarted, and now Steel Gear works as expected. Weird; I guess something in Windows 11 was corrupted. Now if one could do something to make my computer run about 10 degrees cooler while the game is running (it goes to 90-100 deg C while running Steel Gear in-game)...

Oh, my new computer specs:

Lenovo Legion Pro 5

13th gen Core i9 -13900HX, 2.2 GHz, 24 cores, 32 logical processors
Windows 11 Home 64-bit 22H2

32 GB main RAM

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU (8 GB VRAM)

DirectX12

Game resolution used: 1024x768


It has already been reported Win 11 is causing issues. Steel Gear has never been tested on the Win 11 OS. Currently I have no PC with Win 11 on it, so I can't really diagnose the problems right now. I'm glad you got it working though. Thanks for reporting, and offering a solution! Cheers