Ski Park Manager
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Developers | |
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Lankhor | |
Publishers | |
Microïds | |
Hip Games | |
Release dates | |
Windows | February 20, 2002 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Isometric |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Building, Business, Sports |
Sports | Snowboarding or skiing |
Ski Park Manager is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric building, business and sports game.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
ZOOM Platform | 2003 Edition. |
Version differences
- The 2003 Edition adds free build and scenario modes.
Essential improvements
Patches
- Patch 2.0a is the latest official patch for the original 2002 version.
Skip game intro
Move, delete or rename the intro videos |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\simski.cfg[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Saved Games\[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Hardcoded to 800x600. Using dgVoodoo 2 to forcefully change the resolution does change the in-game rendering resolution, but the cursor is duplicated and the UI is stretched regardless of the forced resolution or aspect ratio. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Use dgVoodoo 2. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Ray tracing (RT) |
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 |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Effects and music Bringing up the audio settings menu will mute the game on the OS level until manually unmuted. |
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Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | No speech. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio | ||
Red Book CD audio | Present in Zoom Platform release as an .OGG file. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian |
Changing language
Registry edit |
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Issues fixed
Select sounds not playing (retail)
- This issue occurs due to two files requiring a French diacritic in the filename.
- The Zoom Platform release fixed this issue in their release of the game on 23 December 2021.
Rename misconfigured files |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 / Me / 2000 / XP | XP |
Processor (CPU) | 300 MHz | 500 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | 128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 25 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM | 32 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 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).