1.5. If Midtown Madness stops responding while attempting to detect a video card the first time you start the game…

Make sure that your display monitor is recognized by Windows. To do so, click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Display icon, and then click the Monitor tab. Confirm that your monitor is identified and not listed as "Unknown." If you are using multiple monitors using MultiMon, make sure that all your monitors are recognized by Windows.

1.6. Poor performance when playing Midtown Madness on a Hewlett Packard Pavilion Pentium-II 300 computer

If you are using a Hewlett Packard Pavilion Pentium-II 300 computer, you may experience severely degraded performance when playing Midtown Madness. This is caused by incompatibilities between Midtown Madness and some of the software preloaded on this computer. Removing or disabling some of the programs installed on your computer may alleviate the problem.

1.7. If Midtown Madness closes unexpectedly while you are accessing Help…

If Midtown Madness closes unexpectedly while you are accessing Help, setting your Windows desktop Color setting to High Color (16-bit) may fix the problem. Running another program (i.e., Windows Calculator) while you are running Midtown Madness or ejecting the Midtown Madness disk after you've started the game may also fix this problem.

2. Multiplayer Notes and Troubleshooting

2.1. If your Internet Explorer connection setting is set to Modem and you are joining a Multiplayer session using the TCP/IP protocol…