I found this game I used to play a very long time ago and I wanted to experience it again. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to run it in Windows 10 / Windows XP SP3 VM because it would lag on modern hardware.
Here is what you need to do in order to get the game running:
Search for “Midtown Madness 2 (Europe) (Rerelease)” on TPB and download it
Copy all files inside MS\x86 to the game folder as well
Run dgVoodoo2.exe as admin and set the following:
Click the button .\ to create config file to MM directory
In “General” > “Output API” select “Direct3D 11 MS WARP (software)”
Go to “DirectX” tab and change the VRAM to 128MB
Click “Apply” > “OK” to exit.
Launch the game > Options > Graphics > select from Display drop down menu, “dgVoodoo DirectX Wrapper” > "Hardware (3D video card with T&L) from the Renderer drop menu.
Click “Done” and that’s it!
Note that whenever you change the resolution it won’t apply any changes to the game menu - you’ll only see it once you start a race.
Midtown Madness 2 should now run very smoothly under Windows 10, even on Virtual Machines. Enjoy.
I remember playing them as crazy as a kid, the first had a extremely 90s UI, and the mini map was just a normal map scanned in and then zoomed and scrolled as you drove around.
The second one had better maps, but still weird bugs, you could drive up the side of a building and accellerate, when on the roof you would drive out in the air and just park floating next to the building.
There was a lot of custom modded vehicles for a Midtown Madness 2 and I loved digitally hoarding them and trying them all out as a kid. There was one modded vehicle that was an 18 wheeler tractor that had its speed adjusted to be totally borked fast (not just “that’s cheating” fast, more like “I’m not sure the game engine can handle this” fast). You would hold forward on the truck for a second or two and then let go and then you would zoom forward and get launched half way across the map. Some of my formative experiences in life with the world of janky mods that do hilarious stuff.
heck no but I just googled it and check this out there is still a midtown madness mod file website! its got tons of cars and levels https://www.mm2x.com/ pretty cool people take the time to preserve this stuff and keep it up
Other commenter is on point. The VW Beetle (commonly called a bug) was crazy overpowered in that game from what I remember. I could also just have rose colored glasses.
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Midtown Madness, wow, what excellent games!
I remember playing them as crazy as a kid, the first had a extremely 90s UI, and the mini map was just a normal map scanned in and then zoomed and scrolled as you drove around.
The second one had better maps, but still weird bugs, you could drive up the side of a building and accellerate, when on the roof you would drive out in the air and just park floating next to the building.
I downloaded Xemu only to play MM3.
Good times driving away from 4 cop cars in Washington DC.
Just wanted to throw out there, midtown madness 3 is fun and runs great on xemu. Just sayn’
I’ll try that one soon. Does it run natively under Windows 10 or does it require hacks as well?
Xemu is an xbox emulator.
Xemu runs very good (tested on a 7800x3d + 3070)
Xemu is an Xbox emulator. Should be fully compatible with W10
Oh I wasn’t aware of that. But I’ve the feeling like an emulator will be easier to get running that MM2 was under Windows 10 😂. Thanks.
It was never released for Windows
There was a lot of custom modded vehicles for a Midtown Madness 2 and I loved digitally hoarding them and trying them all out as a kid. There was one modded vehicle that was an 18 wheeler tractor that had its speed adjusted to be totally borked fast (not just “that’s cheating” fast, more like “I’m not sure the game engine can handle this” fast). You would hold forward on the truck for a second or two and then let go and then you would zoom forward and get launched half way across the map. Some of my formative experiences in life with the world of janky mods that do hilarious stuff.
Cool, do you still have the files?
heck no but I just googled it and check this out there is still a midtown madness mod file website! its got tons of cars and levels https://www.mm2x.com/ pretty cool people take the time to preserve this stuff and keep it up
the crazy speed mod was basically this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O0LnFYXx7I
Oh yes, I’m aware of that website, just curious about your old library. Thanks.
The VW bug was the OP. Just sayin’.
The mini too. I remember it was able to climb that one big slanted building in San Francisco that the sports car couldn’t
I’m confused about your comment…
Other commenter is on point. The VW Beetle (commonly called a bug) was crazy overpowered in that game from what I remember. I could also just have rose colored glasses.
They’re either calling you a VW Beetle or saying it was over powered.
Or they are calling out OP because they make too much emission. As in the most notable VW bug (which was a feature).