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School Tycoon

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School Tycoon
School Tycoon cover
Developers
Cat Daddy Games
Publishers
Global Star Software
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Engines
CatCore
Release dates
Windows February 24, 2004
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Building, Simulation
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Contemporary
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School Tycoon is a singleplayer bird's-eye view building and simulation game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Simple disc check.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\settings.dat[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\SAVED_GAMES\[Note 1]

Video

Widescreen resolution

Hex edit settings.dat[1]
  1. Run the game at least once.
  2. Choose the 800x600 resolution in the video options.
  3. Close the game.
  4. Open settings.dat in a hex editor like HxD.
  5. Search for 20 03 00 00 58 02 00 00.
  6. Highlight 20 03 00 00 and go to the Data inspector tab in the right side.
  7. Change the value in the UInt32 row to the desired width.
  8. Do the same for the 58 02 00 00 value, but for the height instead.

Notes

Main menu is still locked to 640x480.
Vert-.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound Effects, and Ambient sliders available.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP, 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible


Notes

  1. 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).

References

  1. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2025-01-30