The F.A. Premier League Football Manager 2001
Developers | |
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Electronic Arts UK | |
Publishers | |
EA Sports | |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 8, 2000 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Perspectives | Text-based, Top-down view, Bird's-eye view |
Controls | Menu-based |
Genres | Sports, Strategy |
Sports | Football (Soccer) |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Contemporary |
Series | The F.A. Premier League Football Manager |
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
The F.A. Premier League Football Manager 2001 is a singleplayer and multiplayer text-based, top-down view and bird's-eye view sports and strategy game in the The F.A. Premier League Football Manager series.
The game was released in Germany as Fussball Manager Bundesliga 2001.
Installing on 64-bit systems requires a workaround; see Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows. Additionally, getting the game to work on Windows 8 and newer requires a workaround; see Game not launching on newer versions of Windows.[1]
Availability
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\setup[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\games[Note 2] |
Video
<path-to-game>\setup
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Stretched, 800x600 only. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Different camera angles can be selected during the match. | ||
Windowed | Use dgVoodoo 2. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Use dgVoodoo 2. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Use dgVoodoo 2. | ||
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
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | Mouse and keyboard are required to play the game. |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | No options to turn off sounds in-game. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Text based game. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Alt+Tab ↹ crashes the game. | |
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | 6 | Versus, Hot seat |
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LAN play | ||||
Online play |
Issues fixed
Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows
Use replacement installer executable[4] |
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Game not launching on newer versions of Windows
Use dgVoodoo 2[5] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 7 | |
Glide | ||
Software renderer |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
- No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98, 2000 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 166 Mhz | Intel Pentium II 300 Mhz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB (64 MB for Windows 2000) | 64 MB (128 MB for Windows 2000) |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 150 MB | 500 MB |
Video card (GPU) | PCI or AGP video card with DirectDraw compatible driver 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 7 compatible | PCI or AGP 3D graphics accelerator using Glide or Direct3D compatible chipset 12 MB of VRAM |
Sound (audio device) | DirectX 7 compatible sound card | |
Other | 4x CD-ROM drive |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[3]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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
- ↑ Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-02-09
- Tested the game on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit version 1909 with dgVoodoo 2.63.1
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-02-08
- Windows 64-bit machines installer fix
- ↑ Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-02-08
- Works with dgVoodoo 2.63.1