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The American Girls: Dress Designer

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The American Girls: Dress Designer
The American Girls: Dress Designer cover
Developers
Mattel Interactive
Release dates
Windows 1999
The American Girls: Dress Designer on Wikipedia
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Key points

The game has issues on modern versions of Windows. See Issues fixed.
Does not scale at all with higher resolutions; Dress Designer is fixed to run at 640x480, and playing it at 800x600 or higher introduces black borders around the screen.
While the game remains playable, Dress Designer appears to be poorly optimised when it comes to CPU utilisation, as it consumes too much processor time even on a modern systen.

General information

MobyGames page
American Girl Playthings (fan site for collectors and AG enthusiasts)

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 Used copies of the game can be found on eBay and other online sellers.
Windows

Essential improvements

Run the game straight from the hard drive

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location

Save game data location

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System Location

Video settings

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Windowed

Instructions

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Windows NT popup window crash fix

The dreaded error message that shows up whenever the player attempts to quit the game or bring up the options menu. See this GIF for an animated demo of the error.
The dreaded error message that shows up whenever the player attempts to quit the game or bring up the options menu. See this GIF for an animated demo of the error.
Instructions

Audio stutters on newer operating systems

Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 7.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes QuickTime Earlier runtime versions may cause the audio to stutter; see above fix for details

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 75 MB
Video card (GPU) 16-bit colour

References