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===Version differences===
 
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Playboy: The Mansion
Playboy: The Mansion cover
Developers
Cyberlore Studios
Publishers
ARUSH Entertainment
Groove Games
Europe Ubisoft
Brazil Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows January 25, 2005
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Genres Simulation, Business
Themes Adult
Playboy: The Mansion on MobyGames
Playboy: The Mansion on Wikipedia

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Playboy: The Mansion is a singleplayer bird's-eye view simulation and business game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SafeDisc v4 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Version differences

The Gold Edition includes the Private Party expansion pack.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Private Party
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\PC.
  2. Delete or rename arush.wmv, cyberlore.wmv, groove.wmv, legal_eu.wmv, legal_us.wmv, lycos.wmv, opener.wmv, playboy.wmv and ubi.wmv.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\PC\Saved Games[Note 2]

Video

In-game video settings
In-game video settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sliders for sound and music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Brazilian Portuguese
[3]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 7500
Nvidia GeForce 2
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible sound card


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] 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.[2]
  2. 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