Midtown Madness problem

[Rik]

give me one of each  or a week in The Priory

A blue is worth 5 white or two yellow, so two blue would be better than one of each and less to carry on your journey there.

[David]

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/radeon-prer300-xp.html

Do I download the suite ?

[Sebby]

Yep, then when you install it you can choose what to install (probably just let it install whatever it wants to).

[David]

A blue is worth 5 white or two yellow, so two blue would be better than one of each and less to carry on your journey there.

Fair enough 2 blues 

[Cookiemonster]

You might need to install net framework if you don't already have it.

[Rik]

Fair enough 2 blues 

In the router as I speak...

[Sebby]

Link, if you need it, David.

[David]

No luck.downloaded the netframe and installed the suite from the link and still the same ...repeat prescription please Rik panic attack imminent 

[Rik]

What minimum hardware spec does the game have on it, David? Does the machine meet that?

[David]

What minimum hardware spec does the game have on it, David? Does the machine meet that?

Yes Rik its odd because a the children had this game up to about nine months back that copy was scratched and wasn't until now the decided they wanted another copy so Im confused,and yet the game will
play on my new pc,(they have the old one) cant work it out really there is no logic to it. I will just double check .

[Rik]

I'm just in best straw clutching mode, David. The next step is to review what's running on the machine in the background.

[David]

I will do one thing more with this and then it will make a great frizbee,the front cover states its for windows 98 so I guess I could try having a look in that area.failing that its what is known as a shame

[Rik]

If it's for '98, David, right-lick on the short cut, select Properties and then the Compatibility tab. Choose to run it in compatibility for Win 98, see if that does the trick.

[Steve]

In the folder on hard drive where it is in installed you should find some shortcuts? One should read something like midtown madness safe mode. If you find this,it should start the game in software rendering mode and redetect the video card, then presumably you can try starting the game normally, Good luck

PS.There is more inf on the microsoft site.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231828/EN-US/

[Sebby]

That sounds like it could be promising.

[David]

If it's for '98, David, right-lick on the short cut, select Properties and then the Compatibility tab. Choose to run it in compatibility for Win 98, see if that does the trick.

Thanks Rik this one just gave me send an eror report etc.so will try the other.last chance.

[Malc]

Sounds like the protection to me. Their must still be protection registry entries in the registry looking for the old CD / dvd.

You need to uninstall the previous version completely. then clean the registry, you can use ccleaner,

http://www.ccleaner.com/download

it's free.

Then reboot and install the new CD.

Hope this works.

[David]

Sounds like the protection to me. Their must still be protection registry entries in the registry looking for the old CD / dvd.

You need to uninstall the previous version completely. then clean the registry, you can use ccleaner,

http://www.ccleaner.com/download

it's free.

Then reboot and install the new CD.

Hope this works.Worth a go is this or the hammer,thanks guys 

Edit: markup sorted

[mrapoc]

Was about to say give ccleaner a run

DO both clean and registry scan/fix

Update directx?

Run in compatability mode to 2000 or something?

I see you have updated graphics drivers

You dont have something like daemon tools running do you? Could be checking for virtualisation tools (a common tool for peeps runnin downloaded games)