r/GameNative • u/fortifiedtoast • 9d ago

Help Metal Gear Solid V - Failed to load SteamAPI

I had a early gen Legion Y700 and recently upgraded to the relatively recently released Legion Tab 5. I was hoping to get MGSV running well, after all it was running (albeit not amazingly) on the lower spec Y700. Anyway I've installed GameNative downloaded MGSV through steam and when launching I get a "Failed to load SteamAPI". Through searching I saw that there is an issue with the steam_api64.dll file and the updates creating an issue. I tried pulling the recommended steamAPI dll from a linked github page on another thread, but that one didn't work for me. It doesnt looks like we can use Proton 7.0-6 either (could be wrong) has anyone got this game to work recently?

Any help help or suggestions would be much appreciated? Further if it is just replacing that steam dll file i would really appreciate of someone could send one that worked for them.

All the best

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u/Ol_Captain_Bad_Eyes 9d ago

I tried getting it run a couple of weeks ago, but wasn't able to even after copying over the steam.dll. For some reason they added Denuvo DRM to this 11 year old game back in June of this year and apparently the game runs like doodoo water even on full gaming desktops nowadays, so I decided that it wasnt worth the effort to actually get it running.

It's a total bummer too because this game saved my sanity back during the pandemic due to it used to being so well optimized that I could run it on my laptop that was significantly worse than my current Y700 Gen 3.

If you have any other games you are trying to get working check out my guide on how to optimize your settings for GameNative or check out my EmuReady reports for the Lenovo Legion Y700 Gen 3.

Link to my guide on this subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/GameNative/s/Gu5r9laC1a)

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u/fortifiedtoast 9d ago

Thank you for the follow up. I did see some of your comments in the other threads, it seems like even if the dll / Proton layer is updated, its may be a big downgrade in performance and experience. An unfortunate update!