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First post, by CaptainTER06

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Hello,

I recently acquired a physical copy of the game Microsoft Midtown Madness 2, but I get a weird graphical issue : the cars have no wheels.

Here's my computer configuration:
- Intel Celeron 333MHz Slot 1
- 256MB RAM
- Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400 64MB
- 80GB HDD
- Asus P2L98-XV HP OEM Motherboard
- 3com Etherlink II ISA
- Integrated Sound Card
- Microsoft DirectX 8.0
- Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, updated

I can't find a solution anywhere to this damn bug. Please note that it does not appear on Windows XP, but appears on Win98 with a GeForce 2 MX400, GeForce4 MX420, GeForce FX 5200 and GeForce FX 5500. I don't want to change my operating system. I've attached a picture of the bug.

Could anyone help me ?

Thanks,
CaptainTER06

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Reply 1 of 14, by leileilol

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What are your drivers? Later nVidia ForceWares are known to sabotage everything on Win9x

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Reply 2 of 14, by Gmlb256

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I would say it is more like lack of QA with later ForceWare drivers for Windows 9x than sabotage but yeah, use an old nVidia Detonator driver. Anything below (and maybe including) 45.23 are OK.

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Reply 3 of 14, by CaptainTER06

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I use a version of the nVidia driver released before 45.23, which does not even have the nView thing bundled... I never installed 89.98, cause this one is such a terrible piece of crap on 9x.

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Reply 4 of 14, by Dothan Burger

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CaptainTER06 wrote on 2024-06-20, 14:37:

I use a version of the nVidia driver released before 45.23, which does not even have the nView thing bundled... I never installed 89.98, cause this one is such a terrible piece of crap on 9x.

I run this game on a 7950gt with the unofficial 82.69 drivers and the XP patch for this game takes care of 99% of the graphical glitches. You can toggle a graphical setting while in game to see if the patch will work. I can't remember if it's Textured sky or vehicle shadows, But you have to be in game to do it.

edit: I believe this is the patch. https://www.mm2x.com/download-file-127

Reply 5 of 14, by CaptainTER06

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I have a much older card, maybe this version will slow my 98PC ? I'm gonna try the XP patch as well, I completely forgot the existence of this patch xD Hopefully that will fix my issues...

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Reply 6 of 14, by Dothan Burger

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CaptainTER06 wrote on 2024-06-20, 18:23:

I have a much older card, maybe this version will slow my 98PC ? I'm gonna try the XP patch as well, I completely forgot the existence of this patch xD Hopefully that will fix my issues...

I wouldn't switch drivers because all GeForces have this issue regardless of driver. I was just commenting that even with the latest drivers that patch will work, I only use that driver because that's the only one that works with a 7950gt

Reply 7 of 14, by CaptainTER06

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I've tried the patch without switching drivers, and it works ! Thank you so much! Now I can play with my physical copy of the game on Windows 98!

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Reply 8 of 14, by Dothan Burger

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CaptainTER06 wrote on 2024-06-20, 19:39:

I've tried the patch without switching drivers, and it works ! Thank you so much! Now I can play with my physical copy of the game on Windows 98!

Happy to help, it's one of my favorite games.

Reply 9 of 14, by bosquetor0602

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CaptainTER06 wrote on 2024-06-20, 19:39:

I've tried the patch without switching drivers, and it works ! Thank you so much! Now I can play with my physical copy of the game on Windows 98!

How did you run it?, I applied the same patch but it adds a new midtown madnnes 2 exe on the games files but when i tried to run run the game now is asking me for a cd, if i use the crack exe for the nocd fix cd it runs the game but it does not applies the patch, how did you make it work?

Im using Windows 98se, Pentium 4 3.0 ghz and nvidia fx 5900 xt

Please help me 🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Reply 10 of 14, by Dothan Burger

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bosquetor0602 wrote on 2025-02-08, 22:03:
How did you run it?, I applied the same patch but it adds a new midtown madnnes 2 exe on the games files but when i tried to run […]
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CaptainTER06 wrote on 2024-06-20, 19:39:

I've tried the patch without switching drivers, and it works ! Thank you so much! Now I can play with my physical copy of the game on Windows 98!

How did you run it?, I applied the same patch but it adds a new midtown madnnes 2 exe on the games files but when i tried to run run the game now is asking me for a cd, if i use the crack exe for the nocd fix cd it runs the game but it does not applies the patch, how did you make it work?

Im using Windows 98se, Pentium 4 3.0 ghz and nvidia fx 5900 xt

Please help me 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Can't you just use Daemon tools to mount the image.

Reply 11 of 14, by bosquetor0602

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Dothan Burger wrote on 2025-02-08, 23:29:
bosquetor0602 wrote on 2025-02-08, 22:03:
How did you run it?, I applied the same patch but it adds a new midtown madnnes 2 exe on the games files but when i tried to run […]
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CaptainTER06 wrote on 2024-06-20, 19:39:

I've tried the patch without switching drivers, and it works ! Thank you so much! Now I can play with my physical copy of the game on Windows 98!

How did you run it?, I applied the same patch but it adds a new midtown madnnes 2 exe on the games files but when i tried to run run the game now is asking me for a cd, if i use the crack exe for the nocd fix cd it runs the game but it does not applies the patch, how did you make it work?

Im using Windows 98se, Pentium 4 3.0 ghz and nvidia fx 5900 xt

Please help me 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Can't you just use Daemon tools to mount the image.

I did, but still when I try to open the game it keeps asking me for a cd, inside the iso of my copy of the game is a file that has the "crack file exe that fix no cd issue" but it replaces the midtownmadness2.exe that lets say has the windows xp patch sfter i install it, so when I open the game it does not applies the patch file. I dont know maybe Im doing something wrong.

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Reply 12 of 14, by CaptainTER06

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Hi, I had to run it with the CD inside the drive (I had the boxed copy).

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Reply 13 of 14, by BEEN_Nath_58

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Although your case could be entirely different, on a modern machine, I could fix it using a "Windows XP patch" for this game, which probably changes the way textures are rendered

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