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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 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 on HowLongToBeat
Midtown Madness on IGDB
Midtown Madness on MobyGames
Midtown Madness on Wikipedia
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).

Midtown Madness is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person racing game in the Midtown Madness series.

General information

Midtown Madness 2 eXtreme - community website with mods and additional cars

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).
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.

Patches

Patch 1 fixes two multiplayer focused issues.
WinXP Compatilbility Patch fixes game launching issues with Windows XP and later.

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

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

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
Only on German Retail-CD

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.[3]
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Game runs poorly on Windows 8 and later

Use Open1560
Use dgVoodoo 2[citation needed]
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Extract dgVoodooSetup.exe, as well as DDraw.dll and D3DImm.dll from the \MS\x86 subfolder into <path-to-game>.
  3. Run dgVoodooSetup.exe; click on the "DirectX" tab and change the following: Videocard needs to be changed to "dgVoodoo Virtual 3D Accelerated Card" if it is not already selected.
  4. Click "Apply" and close the dgVoodoo setup application.
  5. Rename midtown.exe to MidtownMadness.exe.
If using an Nvidia card, you must set Output API to Direct3D 12 (feature level 12.0) in dgVoodooCpl.exe or a driver conflict will occur.[citation needed].
Open1560 uses an OpenGL renderer that is incompatible with dgVoodoo. The last dgVoodoo compatible version is OpenMM1.

CD music does not resume after pause

Use CDAudio proxy
  1. Download CDAudio proxy and extract its files to <path-to-game>.
  2. Rip the game's music as track02.ogg, track03.ogg, etc. and place it in a subfolder named MUSIC in <path-to-game>.
Note that Midtown Madness will still require the disc inserted to play music.
DxWnd[4]

DxWnd can fix this.

  1. 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.
  2. 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>.
  3. 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

Use the custom bash script from here[citation needed]

Tire smoke not appearing

Enable smoke
  1. Download the Midtown Madness Revisited mod.
  2. Create a copy of the game folder and apply the patch to it
  3. Rename the patched midtown.exe to MidtownMadness.exe and place it in the original game folder.
  4. This is only necessary if the player does not want to play the MM Revisited mod with its chanes. However, it is still necessary to rename the patched executable for dgVoodoo 2 to work with it[citation needed].
MMArchive entered directory mode on September 1, 2021.[5] 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
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