I agree with Slayer's evaluation of the cause (although I don't know if I'd say MTM2 wasn't "designed" for high frame rates, as that makes it seem intentional, and I believe it's more of an accidental bug or oversight by TRI that they didn't recognise on the hardware at the time.)

Something in the ...

So was it a fresh install of Windows - not recovered from the old drive or a backup? (You could be volunteering a bit more information here - you should try to be as descriptive as you can.)

I'm thinking you got a fresh install and are still running off the reference graphics drivers included with ...

it DID work at one point. I think this was because the game was actually installed. It is not installed now, my entire MTM2 folder sits on my desktop. IT was installed, then my hard drive went out, the folder has been sitting on the desktop since then and thats when the issue came up.
Oh, you mean ...

Right now I'm running on Dx10, how do I switch it to Dx7?
You don't. You don't do anything of the sort.

If you have DX9/10, they include the functionality of all prior versions of DX. Games that use any prior version of DX (such as DX6 for MTM2) should just run. There are no settings to change ...

If you have vista you probably have Directx10 already installed, just run "dxdiag" and you will see.

It's imposible to play the game if you don't have DirectX.
Vista comes with DirectX 10 (period).

However, DirectX 10 is different from previous versions of DirectX in that it isn't backwards ...

Merry Christmas!

Hey, enough with the "old"...

Did you set the File Paths on the Preferences dialog in BinEdit?

Instructions http://binedit.com/help/

This game was designed to run on I believe a 48k dial up (correct me if im wrong please).
Try 24kbps. Perhaps even less.

With regards to pods and lag, there's a bit of superstition around it since it's naturally hard to guage what will make the game run better. The only things that "should" have ...

As well as 2008 being MTM2's 10th birthday, it turns out Google is also 10 years old.

Anyone seen this? http://www.google.com/search2001.html
Basically, it's the oldest revision of the search engine they still have, dating back to January 2001.

Really trippy searching for stuff that didn't exist ...

See this is what I love about you Phinny - you start off with what seems like a fairly innocuous question but then keep digging and digging with the result that it pushes me into learning new things that I didn't know about before [yeaman]

I can virtually guarantee you that ANY disc, whether ...

I typed a lot up last night, hoping that the thread wouldn't move too far from what I was trying to understand and address, but of course it has :)

the differences in test tools. Each one seems to be testing for different things, and a couple of them seem geared to making nero, for example, appear ...

After a search to decode Mal's reply I came across the following forum threads that I found to contain interesting info:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f61/pifs-pies-playability-what-good-they-really-136579/
I've burned almost 100 DVD's and each one has been checked w/ Nero CD-DVD Speed Disk Quality ...

Wow, looks fantastic!

i meant from CD to HDD, if u dont get read errors then it works. preferable use a normal CD drive, A burner has a stronger laser that will error less
I knew what you meant and that was what I meant too: I burnt the disc and then, because I was paranoid, copied the disc contents back to the hard ...

I copy all the files to my drive and if it doesn't error I asume it works :)
Ditto, I was doing that as recently as a few days ago when I was trying to back up some work and my POS work Dell only turned out coasters :x

I do remember reading a magazine review of CD/DVD media where they tested ...

Slayer wrote:

LOL!
I don't get it, it looks normal to me...! [:P]

Phineus is racing champion! Congrats, and also to THESNAKE and Jammer/Yomega

Sorry I couldn't be there myself for the racing tourney, but there were just too many planets to align on that day

I've never used any myself, but I've seen MemTest86 recommended first more than a few times, so I'd say that's a good one. The Microsoft one probably wouldn't hurt either.

On technical messageboards I've also heard of a program called Prime95 (actually a research tool) that is popular for stress ...

OLD_Fenderbender wrote:r u two doing this out of boredom? lmao

I think they should just get married and get it over with

Also, if we could introduce a Mac fanboy into this thread, I think we could have a solid comedy triple-act