Midtown Madness

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Midtown Madness

Developers
	Angel Studios
Publishers
	Microsoft
Engines
	Angel Game Engine
Release dates
Windows	May 1, 1999
Taxonomy
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Series	Midtown Madness

Midtown Madness
Midtown Madness	1999
Midtown Madness 2	2000

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Extensive modding can make the game unstable on modern operating systems.

Small but very active community.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc DRM.

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Open1560

Open-source reimplementation that fixes a lot of problems and adds a modern renderer.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\video.cfg

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\players

Audio settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking		Was done via MSN Gaming Zone which was discontinued on June 19, 2006.
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Game runs poorly on Windows 8 and later

Use Open1560

Use dgVoodoo 2

Download the latest version. Copy dgVoodooCpl.exe, D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll (located in the MS/x86 folder) into <path-to-game>. Rename midtown.exe to MidtownMadness.exe. If you have an Nvidia card, you must set Output API to Direct3D 12 (feature level 12.0) in dgVoodooCpl.exe or you will encounter a driver conflict that gives terrible performance. Open1560 uses an OpenGL renderer that's incompatible with dgVoodoo. The last dgVoodoo compatible version is OpenMM1.

CD music does not resume after pause

Use CDAudio proxy
CDAudio proxy will fix this, place its files in <path-to-game> and rip music to track02.ogg, track03.ogg, etc and place it in a folder named MUSIC in <path-to-game> This does not eliminate the need to have the CD inserted. Even with a no-cd crack, Midtown Madness will still check for a CD drive before deciding to play music.

Text hard to see

Disable font smoothing
You must disable font smoothing in Windows. Windows 10 does this by default for midtown.exe, but this is incompatible with dgVoodoo.

Unable to run on Linux via Wine

Custom Launcher (aka: A BASH script)
Download this bash script from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1inWrpe_XZcmcMOYRb_CQupZsy2x1V1An/view?usp=sharing Use this wherever (Desktop, Home folder, portable device, etc). Read the Midtown Madness Setup.doc before playing Midtown Madness.

Tire smoke not appearing

Enable smoke

Download Midtown Madness Revisited from here: http://www.mmarchive.com/file_details.php?file_id=2361 Create a copy of your game folder and apply the patch to it Rename the patched midtown.exe to MidtownMadness.exe and place it in your original game folder This is only necessary if you don't want any of the other changes MM Revisited makes. However it's still necessary to rename the patched midtown.exe to MidtownMadness.exe for dgvoodoo to work with it.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6
OpenGL	3	Supported in Open1560.
Software renderer

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	300 MB
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM DirectX 6 compatible