Stereo FX: If your system desperately needs performance, set the sound system to Mono instead of Stereo. The game should sound the same, but will actually be using less CPU power to work. You will know by clicking the selection box. Click Audio Options.ĭevice: If your sound card supports DirectSound, try enabling this. To access the sound menu, start Midtown Madness. There are only a few options to tweak the sound in Midtown Madness. You should know right away which works better for your system.īefore deciding that all of these settings are what you want, test the game several times. Perhaps it has to do with system ram or virtual memory size. However, I have received a number of e-mails saying that Speed Loading drastically increased the loading times and/or caused terrible performance hits. So for me, Speed Loading was much better. With Speed loading enabled, it took 10 seconds, 4 seconds, and 4 seconds. The times it took to load were: 21 seconds, 17 seconds, and 17 seconds (in order). I tried loading Midtown Madness without Speed Loading enabled three times.
Speed loading: You probably think an option called "speed loading" would actually make the game load faster, right? Well, it does for some people, but doesn't for others. On some video cards this effect may not be as noticeable as on others. I recommend pumping up the lighting quality. This will not effect performance as much as clip distance, so set this to where you're comfortable. Lighting quality: As you probably guessed, this is the overall quality of the lighting effects, including headlights, sunsets, and light reflections. I personally like to see as far as I can, so I set this option all the way up. For more realistic play, set this option farther away (+), and for a higher frame rate, set this option lower (-). Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurnerįar clip distance: This slider will allow you to choose how far the objects away are rendered.