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Sydney 2000

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Sydney 2000
Sydney 2000 cover
Developers
Attention to Detail
Publishers
Eidos Interactive
Release dates
Windows August 25, 2000
Reception
Metacritic 51
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Cinematic camera
Controls Direct control
Genres Sports
Sports Mixed sports
Art styles Realistic
Themes Oceania
Series Summer Olympics
Sydney 2000 on HowLongToBeat
Sydney 2000 on IGDB
Sydney 2000 on MobyGames
Sydney 2000 on Wikipedia
Summer Olympics
Atlanta 1996 1996
Sydney 2000 2000
Athens 2004 2004
Beijing 2008 2008
London 2012 2012
Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 – The Official Video Game 2021
Olympics Go! Paris 2024 2024

Warnings

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

Sydney 2000 is a singleplayer cinematic camera sports game in the Summer Olympics series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc 1.50.020 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected releases).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\OLY2000.cfg[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Vert- image compared to 4:3. Use the FOV fix for an uncropped Hor+ image.
Multi-monitor
Vert- image compared to 4:3, FOV is way too low by default. Use the FOV fix for an uncropped Hor+ image.
Ultra-widescreen
Vert- image compared to 4:3, FOV is way too low by default. Use the FOV fix for an uncropped Hor+ image.
4K Ultra HD
Vert- image compared to 4:3. Use the FOV fix for an uncropped Hor+ image.
Use a DirectX wrapper like dgVoodoo2 to make higher resolutions like 4K work.
Field of view (FOV)
Use the FOV fix to set a custom FOV value.
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
120+ FPS
Capped at 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Can switch between different control presets.
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
SFX, music and commentary.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Greek
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
Versus
LAN play
Versus
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium MMX 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
Other 8x CD-ROM drive


Notes

  1. This version of SafeDisc 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. 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