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Midtown Madness

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Midtown Madness
Midtown Madness cover
Developers
Angel Studios
Publishers
Microsoft
Engines
Angel Game Engine
Release dates
Windows May 1, 1999
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Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
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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
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\video.cfg[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\players[Note 2]

Video settings

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Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Game runs poorly on Windows 8 and later

Use the dgVoodoo2 wrapper
  1. Download dgVoodoo2
  2. Copy dgVoodooSetup.exe and the contents of the MS folder into the <path-to-game> folder
  3. Rename midtown.exe to MidtownMadness.exe

Unable to run on Linux via Wine

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

Tyre smoke not appearing

Enable smoke
  1. Download Midtown Madness Revisited from here: http://www.mmarchive.com/file_details.php?file_id=2361
  2. Create a copy of your game folder and apply the patch to it
  3. Rename the patched midtown.exe to MidtownMadness.exe and place it in your original game folder
  4. 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
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

Notes

  1. ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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).

References