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Midtown Madness 2 and GeForce2

Asked by: jericotolentino

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I switched a video card on my old PC. The original card was a Voodoo2 and I replaced it with a GeForce2 MX 400. The Geforce still works although its been gathering dust for years but it won't run Midtown Madness 2. The game works perfectly fine on my Voodoo and I'd hate to just use the old card so that I could play MM2.

The Geforce is from InnoVision and since I wasn't sure whether the drivers are right, I downloaded the latest from Nvidia. Then just now, I came across some Detonator drivers. Are the detonator drivers the ones to use, or is it some other issue beside drivers?

Thanks a lot!

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Answers

 

by: asian_niceguyPosted on 2005-08-02 at 20:42:14ID: 14585444

try the nvidia ones, if they dont work just uninstall and reinstall with detonator

 

by: icemanwolPosted on 2005-08-02 at 21:13:57ID: 14585559

The ones from Nvida should work with any GF based chipset.  What i would do is try changing the color depth to 16-bit insead of 32-bit and see if that makes a diffence

 

by: noblaPosted on 2005-08-03 at 07:03:36ID: 14588597

Yeah the nVidia standard Geforce drivers will work fine, however they have just dropped support for older cards like the Geforce2 so you may need to find an older driver. That is all

 

by: jericotolentinoPosted on 2005-08-03 at 20:24:12ID: 14595080

I just downloaded two drivers, forceware 77.72 from nvidia and the detonator 30.82 from zdnet.com. Both loaded the game but when I tried to play it, the game's graphics totally sucked. The images were horribly distorted and I could even make out the road my car was on.

And yes, the color depth is set to 16-bit.

 

by: jericotolentinoPosted on 2005-08-03 at 22:34:24ID: 14595493

The game finally showed an error message:

Dialog box 1:
Heap Overrun

Dialog box 2:
memMemoryAllocator::FindHeap failed on ptr 2c 07310

What does this mean?

I also tried all sorts of combinations of DirectX and the drivers and the graphics still suck...

 

by: kschangPosted on 2005-08-04 at 12:43:16ID: 14601876

Are you sure you have a Voodoo 2 in there? Voodoo 2 is a passthru card so it should work with any existing video card, even that GeForce2MX.

 

by: jericotolentinoPosted on 2005-08-04 at 23:42:21ID: 14605209

kschang, I don't quite understand your question. I'm no longer using the Voodoo2. The GeForce2 MX replaced it. Both are AGP cards. However, only the Voodoo2 allows me to play MM2 properly.

 

by: jericotolentinoPosted on 2005-08-17 at 02:20:33ID: 14689880

I've solved it myself. The game doesn't want to work with the 3D hardware acceleration provided by the card. The only way it (the game) would render images properly is when graphics is on software mode. That's the best solution I think would work.

 

by: PAQ_ManPosted on 2005-08-21 at 08:37:07ID: 14719217

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