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Motocross Madness

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Motocross Madness
Motocross Madness cover
Developers
Rainbow Studios
Publishers
Microsoft
Release dates
Windows August 14, 1998
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing
Vehicles Motorcycle, Off-roading, Track racing
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary
Series Motocross Madness
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Motocross Madness on IGDB
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Motocross Madness on Wikipedia
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Motocross Madness
Motocross Madness 1998
Motocross Madness 2 2000

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\UI\Profile\[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\UI\Profile\[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Use dgVoodoo2.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Use dgVoodoo2.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Force off through graphics driver.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Steering 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
Sounds better with Creative ALchemy.
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

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
The official MSN Gaming Zone service has been discontinued.[1]

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
MSN Gaming Zone support has been discontinued.[1]
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Installation freezes on Windows 10

Manual installation
  1. Copy the game folder to your install drive and rename it to Motocross Madness
  2. Copy the content of the lang/usa folder to your Motocross Madness folder.
  3. Create a text file with the following content:
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Motocross Madness]
    "1.0"="E:\\"

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Motocross Madness\1.0]
    "HardDriveRootPath"="D:\\Motocross Madness"
    "InstalledFrom"="E:\\"
    "InstalledGroup"="15"
    "InstallType"="Full"
    "LangID"=dword:00000009
    "Path"="D:\\Motocross Madness"
    "version"="1.0"
    "VersionType"="RetailVersion"
  4. Change the drive letters and paths accordingly, rename the file extension to .reg and execute it.
  5. Set up dgVoodoo2.
  6. Start mcm.exe to play the game.

Use this link:https://mega.nz/file/uR5lTCCQ#R1w2-M-lCd4Po8SbpBu6DLPZEWUWSeXY9TZ8W7Mrogw if you don't know how to make a text file that you need to use on the Registry Editor.

"The program can't start because d3drm.dll is missing" error

Add d3drm.dll to the installation folder
  1. Download Direct3D Retained Mode DLL
  2. Extract the included .dll in <path-to-game>

IPX LAN support on Modern Windows

Download IPXWRAPPER, drag & drop the files, run 32 or 64bit reg and enable automatic windows firewall exception in ipxconfig.exe, any internet connection will link 2 computers, you should IPX option apparing in multiplayer era.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 5 DirectX 5.2 is required.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 133 MHz Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 50 MB 180 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 5 compatible 		4 MB of VRAM
Other 4X CD-ROM
28.8 Kbps modem for online multiplayer


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).

References