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Monster Truck Madness

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Revision as of 03:33, 11 July 2014 by ThatOneReaper (talk | contribs) (Added in the Localization and Network tables. Also replaced the demo link with the PC Gaming Wiki file.)
Monster Truck Madness
Monster Truck Madness cover
Developers
Terminal Reality
Publishers
Microsoft Studios
Release dates
Windows October 3, 1996
Monster Truck Madness on Wikipedia
Monster Truck Madness
Monster Truck Madness 1996
Monster Truck Madness 2 1998

Key points

Palette issues with software rendering under Windows Vista and higher can be corrected using compatibility settings.
Extensive electronic manual containing detailed information on every aspect of the game.
Hardware-accelerated rendering has lower texture quality than software rendering.

General information

Truck O Rama MTM-1 Archive for additional tracks and trucks, along with instructions on how to install them.

Availability

Template:Availability Table

Demo

Essential improvements

Perform complete installation

One of the possible installation options, Complete, installs all game files to your hard drive (200 MB) for playing without the disc.
Has the side benefit of making the game portable.
Game's soundtrack is CD Audio-based; if the game CD (or any CD-Audio CD) isn't inserted into the primary CD-ROM drive, a limited selection of low-quality synthesized versions of the soundtrack will be used instead.

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location

Save game data location

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System Location

Video settings

Game settings.
Graphics settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Control settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8
Online play
8

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Uses MSN Gaming Zone (no longer available).
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 2300-2400, 47624
UDP 2300-2400
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Software rendering causes palette issues under Vista and higher

Instructions

"Feature not included" or "Help not supported" error when trying to open help files

Windows Vista and newer need an update to open legacy Help files.
Instructions

CD music not available

CD music requires the disc in the first drive (CD-ROM 0).
Some virtual drive software might not support CD music.
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Pentium 30 (30 MHz) Pentium 166 (166 MHz)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 MB 200 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 2.0 compatible

References