Midtown Madness

Midtown Madness

Developers
	Angel Studios
Publishers
	Microsoft
Europe	Ubi Soft
Poland	Cenega
Engines
	Angel Game Engine
Release dates
Windows	May 27, 1999
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Racing
Vehicles	Automobile, Bus, Truck
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary, North America
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.

General information

Midtown Madness 2 eXtreme hosts mods for both games.

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).

This game is not available digitally.

A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

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

Video

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Use Open1560 or the widescreen fix. A widescreen patch for car interiors is available here.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen			Vert-.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Use Open1560 and launch the game with -window command line argument.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Use Open1560 (automatically set to 16x, can be manually set to 2x-16x with -afilter x command line argument), or use dgVoodoo 2 and choose between 2x-16x under Texture Filtering.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Use Open1560 and set between 2x-8x with msaa x command line argument, or use dgVoodoo 2 and choose between 2x-8x MSAA.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Use Open1560, or use dgVoodoo 2 and enable Force vSync.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio		On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
German				German Retail Only

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play		8
Online play		The official MSN Gaming Zone service has been shut down; use Voobly.

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>. Note that Midtown Madness will still require the disc inserted to play music.

DxWnd

DxWnd can fix this. Using a CD rip tool such as fre:ac, rip the audio tracks from the CD to a folder named MUSIC in <path-to-game>, using the Ogg Vorbis file type. There should be 16 tracks, with the file names being tracknn, where nn is the number including a leading zero for single digit numbers. Within DxWnd root folder, copy dxwplay.dll, libogg.dll, libvorbis.dll and libvorbisfile.dll as well as within the vcda folder of DxWnd, copy winmm.dll and winmm.ini. Paste these items into <path-to-game>. Within DxWnd, enable expert mode from the options menu. When configuring the game within DxWnd, under the CDAudio tab, select the Use audio files option. You may also check the Force CDROM present option. This article section is incomplete.

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. MMArchive entered directory mode on September 1, 2021. The direct file download can be found here. Alternatively the file can be accessed from MM2 EXTREME.

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