Farming Simulator 2009

Farming Simulator 2009

Developers
	GIANTS Software
Publishers
Germany	Astragon Entertainment
United States	Tri Synergy
United Kingdom (Gold Edition)	Excalibur Publishing
Russia	Noviy Disk
Czech Republic	TopCD
Poland	Techland
Poland (Re-release)	CD Projekt
Engines
	GIANTS Engine 4
Release dates
Windows	March 30, 2009
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Genres	Farming, Simulation
Vehicles	Industrial
Themes	Contemporary
Series	Farming Simulator

General information

Also known as Landwirtschafts Simulator 2009, Фермер, Symulator Farmy and TRAKTOR - Zetor Simulátor 2009

Official website (archived)

Farming Simulator Wiki page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Gold Edition also available
Official website (unavailable)

Demo

Version differences

Gold Edition features exclusive new Horsch equipment, new unlicensed equipment such as a bale autostacker and new missions.

The Czech version - TRAKTOR - Zetor Simulátor 2009 features "exclusive" Zetor machinery (mods downloaded from the internet with minor alterations), altered menu theme and new main theme music, but lacks Gold Edition content. It is sponsored by Kaspersky and the Czech band Visací zámek.

All English versions have units switched to Imperial. It is impossible to change the units without mods on any version.

Late re-releases (such as the CD Projekt version) lack the Fendt license. All instances of Fendt are replaced with Lizard.

Essential improvements

• Official patches/updates - Scroll down the page to find patches for Farming Simulator 2009

Safe Mode

Prevents cultivators from exceeding the field boundary like in all later FS entries.

Togglable On or Off.

Doesn't work on plows.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\FarmingSimulator2009\game.xml %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\FarmingSimulator2009\inputBinding.xml

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\FarmingSimulator2009\savegame*\

Save game cloud syncing

No save game cloud syncing information; you can edit this page to add it.

Video

Video settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		UI becomes stretched. At resolutions higher than 720p it slightly increases in size. Widescreen fix is available. May or may not break mods with custom UIs.
Multi-monitor		UI stretches significantly.
Ultra-widescreen		UI stretches significantly.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Up to 8x
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Up to 8x MSAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS		Capped 60fps by default
120+ FPS		Set fps limit with the Developer Controls. See High FPS
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Force off through video driver[citation needed]
Open the game profile from Nvidia Control Panel or Nvidia Inspector. Force off vertical sync.

Disable through the configuration file
Go to configuration file location. Open game.xml Find the line <vsync>true</vsync> Change it to <vsync>false</vsync>

Windowed

Disable through the configuration file
Go to configuration file location. Open game.xml Find the line <fullscreen>true</fullscreen> Change it to <fullscreen>false</fullscreen>

High FPS

Increase framerate limit through the Developer Controls
Enable Developer Controls. Press the ~ key to open the Developer Controls while in game. Type in framerateLimitFPS ###, replacing ### with the desired value.

Input

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Only possible in the Gold Edition
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
Czech
English
German
Japanese
Polish
Russian

The game has no multilingual support, there are separate releases for different languages

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX
Audio	OpenAL

Modifications

• Komeo's LS 2009 Mods Site

Modding tools

LS09-things

Features unpacking & decompilation scripts among other utilities

Developer Controls

1. Go to configuration file location.
2. Open game.xml
3. Find the line <controls>false</controls>
4. Change it to <controls>true</controls>

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz AMD Athlon 64 3000+		Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz AMD Athlon XP 3000+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB		1.5 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 6800 ATI Radeon X1600 DirectX 9.0c compatible		Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT ATI Radeon HD 3600 series 256 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX compatible