Poor selection of graphics adaptor
On a laptop where windows/desktop is running using the CPU, there is an option to have fullscreen applications run using the discrete GPU using the nvidia control panel. This dosn't work for MM2 and the game will select the CPU with no user choice. Excerpt from mm2.log:
Midtown Madness 2 - Angel: 3393 / Nov 3 2000 14:34:22 Detect: GUID=0 Desc=Primary Display Driver Name=display Frame buffer video memory: -65536 total, -1294336 free. Total video memory: -65536 total, -1294336 free. Max display resolution restricted to 1600 x 1200 Detect: GUID=19f430 Desc=Intel(R) HD Graphics 5600 Name=\.\DISPLAY1 Frame buffer video memory: -65536 total, -1294336 free. Total video memory: -65536 total, -1294336 free. Max display resolution restricted to 1600 x 1200 Playing movie now...