Finally, to put all the doubts at rest for those who don't have the game
yet, the demo is finally up on www.avault.com and www.gamespot.com (not up
yet apparently on Gamespot). Go to [link lost in import]
for more info.
One of the fan sites says this one has bilboards you can knock over as well,
so people who do have the full game will also find this demo worth a look!
YES!!!!!!
A weird thing with the demo's install:
Last night, I downloaded and went to install the MM demo. Near
the end of the install, it brought up a dialogue box saying
something like "Midtown Madness requires DirectX 6.1 to run, and
DirectX 6.0 is detected on your system. Would you like to
download DirectX 6.1 now? [ok] [cancel]". I pressed Cancel--if
I'm going to upgrade, I prefer doing it myself over having a
program do it, and also, I had gotten a bad impression of
DirectX 6.1 (I can't remember what the problems were exactly,
just remember reading a lot of complaints about it in this
newsgroup, leaving me with a negative impression about it).
Well, after pressing Cancel, a warning box was brought up,
saying something to the effect of DirectX 3.0 or newer was
required to run this demo, please install DirectX and try again.
Well, I checked, and MM was installed. I tried running it, and
sure enough, the game ran just fine.
So, we have the inconsistent warning messages (one saying you
need DirectX 6.1, one saying just 3.0) and the fact that it runs
on DX 6.0. I guess it is just an MS way of getting you to
upgrade to the most recent DirectX. Anyway, if you don't have
DirectX 6.1, and want to try this demo, I'd say give it a try
running it first as opposed to clicking [ok] on the button to
upgrade to DX 6.1 at the time, because it may work fine.
BTW, video card is an old 12mb Voodoo2, if this matters.
Iguana
You'll need DirectX 6.1 in order to play the Internet portion of the
game/demo.
Probably, but very likely as it requires a newer DirectPlay.
Ah, this may be. Thanks.
Iguana
