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Monster Truck Madness

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Monster Truck Madness
Monster Truck Madness cover
Developers
Terminal Reality
Publishers
Microsoft
Engines
Photex
Release dates
Windows October 3, 1996
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing
Vehicles Truck
Themes Contemporary, North America
Series Monster Truck Madness
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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

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 DRM-free with complete installation
Windows
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.
A limited selection of low-quality songs will be used if the game CD (or any CD-Audio CD) isn't in the primary CD-ROM drive.

Patch

Fixes some multiplayer issues.[1]
May need to be ran in Windows 95 compatibility mode in order to install properly.

Extra Tracks

These extra tracks are made by Terminal Reality and are available at WinRetro.com [1]
  • A Crazier eight
  • Sierra Logging Run
  • Snowy Canyon

Skip intro videos

Skip intro videos[2]
  1. From the menu bar at the top of the screen, select "Options".
  2. From the drop-down menu which appears, select "Game".
  3. Uncheck "View Intro Movies".
  4. Uncheck "View Clip Scenes" if you also want to skip videos shown between races.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\System[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\tourney[Note 1]

Video

Game settings.
Game settings.
Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Use zoom hotkeys.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Use dgVoodoo2.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Use dgVoodoo2 or set antialiasFlag=0 to 1 in Monster.ini.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Control settings.
Control settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8
Online play
8 The official MSN Gaming Zone service has been shut down.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
MSN Gaming Zone is 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

Set compatibility options[2]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Right-click MONSTER.EXE and select "Properties".
  3. Click on the "Compatibility" tab.
  4. Check checkbox for "Run this program in compatibility mode for:", and from the dropdown box which becomes enabled, select "Windows 95".
  5. Check the checkboxes for "Run in 256 colors", "Run in 640x480 screen resolution", and "Run this program in administration mode".
  6. Run the game as normal, selecting "yes" for the UAC prompts which appear.

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

Windows Vista and later need an update to open legacy Help files.
Install Windows Help program[3]
  1. Install the Windows Help program.
  2. Restart your computer if prompted.

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.
Check drive is CD-ROM 0[citation needed]

Check that the drive is set to CD-ROM 0.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 2
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer MSN Gaming Zone Shut down June 16, 2006.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 60 (60 MHz) Intel Pentium 166 (166 MHz)
System memory (RAM) 8 MB 12 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 MB 200 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA-compatible
DirectX 2.0 compatible


Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References