![]() ![]() My love of cars driven on computers shifted to cars driven on asphalt. Eventually, the Dell was replaced by my current ThinkPad W520 (Sandy Bridge i7), and later I built a Sandy Bridge i5 desktop to complement the ThinkPad. Through all those changes, though…across all those OS, Win95-98-ME-2k-XP-XP64-7…there was one configuration constant: my number one priority from the first moment of use was making sure that Midtown Madness 1 and 2 would work. ![]() Even if that was the only time I’d run the game for a 3 year period, I made sure they would work so I could play at will. I recently upgraded the Windows 7 install on my ThinkPad W520 to Windows 10, and almost compulsively, I dug out those familiar files from my oldest external hard drive, containing the game files and all the add-on Zips I downloaded so many years ago. ![]() Lo and behold, the first Windows OS that I can’t make these games work on. Midtown.exe and Midtown2.exe both error on launch with: The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000022). ![]() I made a new partition and installed 7 in a dual-boot config. I did eventually find that manually installing DirectPlay (it’s in Control Panel\Programs
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