Hey,

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:

  1. Search for “Midtown Madness 2 (Europe) (Rerelease)” on TPB and download it
  2. Load the disk with WinCDEmu or other solution
  3. Install the game (don’t launch it)
  4. Enable DirectPlay on Windows
  5. Copy Crack\midtown2.exe to the gamefolder
  6. Download dgVoodoo2 from http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/
  7. Copy dgVoodoo2.exe to the game folder
  8. Copy all files inside MS\x86 to the game folder as well
  9. 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.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    18·
    11 months ago

    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.

      • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
        15·
        11 months ago

        They’re either calling you a VW Beetle or saying it was over powered.

      • itchick2014 [Ohio]English
        6·
        11 months ago

        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.

    • Sylvartas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      The mini too. I remember it was able to climb that one big slanted building in San Francisco that the sports car couldn’t

  • REM0VED@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    Just wanted to throw out there, midtown madness 3 is fun and runs great on xemu. Just sayn’

  • dumpsterlid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    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.