Ski Park Manager

Ski Park Manager

Developers
	Lankhor
Publishers
	Microïds
	Hip Games
Release dates
Windows	February 20, 2002
Taxonomy
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
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
Go to <path-to-game> Move, delete or rename the FMV folder.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\simski.cfg

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saved Games\

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
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)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

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

In-game audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Effects and music Bringing up the audio settings menu will mute the game on the OS level until manually unmuted.
Surround sound
Subtitles		No speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Red Book CD audio		Present in Zoom Platform release as an .OGG file.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian

Changing language

Registry edit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microids\Ski Park Manager 2003 (32-bit) or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microids\Ski Park Manager 2003 (64-bit). Change the Language entry to 0 for English, 1 for French, 2 for German, 3 for Italian. Values 4 (Portuguese) and 5 (Spanish) are valid but their localization files are incomplete. Setting a higher number will crash the game.

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
Go to <path-to-game>\sons Rename Gare de remontees.wav to Gare de remontées.wav. Rename Tempete de neige blizzard.wav to Tempête de neige blizzard.wav.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98 / Me / 2000 / XP		XP
Processor (CPU)	300 MHz		500 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB		128 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	25 MB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM		32 MB of VRAM