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Midnight Club II

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Midnight Club II
Midnight Club II cover
Developers
Rockstar San Diego
Publishers
Rockstar Games
Engines
Angel Game Engine
Release dates
Windows June 30, 2003
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives Third-person
Genres Action, Racing
Vehicles Street racing
Art styles Stylized
Themes Contemporary
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Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Key points

Non-Steam versions may crash on launch on Windows Vista and later; for a workaround see game crashes on launch (non-Steam versions).
Despite supporting uncapped framerate, much of the game's logic was designed around 30FPS.[1]

General information

Steam Community Discussions
Official site

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SecuROM DRM
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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 Not available since Feb 12, 2018.[2]
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename intro videos
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\video\
  2. Delete or rename mc2intro.bik, rockstar.bik, and sdlogo.bik.

Notes

The copyright screen will still be shown.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\userdata\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12160/pfx/[Note 2]
options.cfg contains general settings.
keyboard_only.map contains keyboard settings.
mouse.map contains mouse settings.
default.cfg contains default settings and does not need to be edited.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\userdata\*.sav[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12160/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

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Windowed

Force windowed or borderless
  1. Download and run DxWnd.
  2. Click on Edit, then Add.
  3. Set the Path to <path-to-game>\Midnight Club 2\mc2.exe.
  4. Set Do not notify on task switch.
  5. Set the desired window position and size.
  6. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed.
  7. Click OK, then File and Save.

Input settings

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Controller support

By default, can't use axes as buttons (e.g. Xbox 360 Controller triggers).
Force feedback emulation can also be enabled for XInput controllers.
Fix button assignment[citation needed]
  1. Download and run XInput Plus.
  2. Set the "Target Program" to mc2.exe.
  3. Go to "DirectInput" and check "Enable DirectInput Output".
  4. Assign LT/RT to Sliders 1/2.
  5. Click Apply, this will install DLL files in the installation folder.
Alternatively there is a fixed configuration here.[citation needed]

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
Console versions only.
LAN play
8
Online play
8 Use OpenSpy.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Game crashes on launch (non-Steam versions)

Non-Steam versions may crash on launch on Windows Vista and later.
Steam version has been patched for compatibility with modern versions of Windows (despite the warning on the Steam store page).[3]
Fix crash on modern systems[4]
  1. Download Midnight Club II Vista Patch.
  2. Extract archive to <path-to-game>
  3. Run the patch to apply it. If write access is denied, uncheck "read-only" in mc2.exe properties.

"Failed to connect to GameSpy server" error

The GameSpy master server has been shut down. Use OpenSpy as an alternative.
Note that recently openspy.org stopped working, so you'll need to replace .org with .net or use the updated .exe linked here.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System 6.5e
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy GameSpy master server has been shut down. Use OpenSpy to play online.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz or Intel Celeron 1.2 GHz
AMD Athlon 800 MHz or AMD Duron 1.2 GHz		 Intel Pentium 4
AMD Athlon XP
System memory (RAM) 128 MB 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.4 GB 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce2
ATI Radeon 8500
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible 		Nvidia GeForce 3
ATI Radeon 9000
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/12160/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (12160) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References