midtown madness 2

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midtown madness 2

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i played midown madness 2 a month ago but today its saying direct x 7 is required i have direct x 12 installed i also have the game running under as windows xp service pack 2 i have directplay on

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Answer 1

You played 2 months ago on the same machine using Win10 ?

If so, did you install a Windows update, or make other changes around the time the game stopped running ?

If you have not played the game on Win10 and have the disc based version the problem would be because of a DRM Blocking

feature MS built into Win10. I have more details in my post at ---this thread---

To make the disc based version of the game run you will need a noCD fix/hack from... games/midtown-madness-2

btw - Win10 has DX9/10/11 &12 (one DX8 file too). When you enabled Direct Play it made it possible to run DX7/8 games.

Answer 2

Hello,

Have a look at these fixes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU_xLcYohtk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrv-55rd8KU

But it is an old game and it seems not to work well anymore on W10.

You may try to use this method to make old programs compatible

https://www.howtogeek.com/228689/how-to-make-ol...

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Hope this helps, and let me know if you have further problems!

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