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Revision as of 20:10, 8 August 2020

Theme Park Inc.
Theme Park Inc. cover
Developers
Bullfrog Productions
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows January 29, 2001
Theme Park Inc. on MobyGames
Theme Park Inc. on Wikipedia
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Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Theme Park
Theme Park 1994
Theme Hospital 1997
Shin Theme Park 1997
Theme Park World 1999
Theme Park Inc. 2001

Key points

Released in the US as SimCoaster.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
 SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
This game is not available digitally.

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

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

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Game installer crashes on startup

Setup compatibility settings[citation needed]
  1. Go to the base directory for the Theme Park Inc./SimCoaster CD.
  2. Enable the following compatibility settings for the autorun.exe file: Compatibility mode (Windows XP (Service Pack 3)).
  3. Run the autorun.exe file.

Game crashes on startup

Use dgVoodoo 2[citation needed]
  1. Download and setup dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Once the initial setup is done, go to the MS subfolder.
  3. Copy the D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll files and paste them into <path-to-game>.
  4. Run the game.

Game doesn't work on Windows 10

Change the settings files manually[citation needed]
  1. Navigate to the installation folder and open the "Data" subfolder
  2. Open low.sam, med.sam and high.sam with a text editor (Notepad++ is recommended)
  3. In all 3 files, change both the value of GraphicalOptions.RENDER32 and GraphicalOptions.TEXTURE32 from 0 to 1
  4. Run the game.

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio QSound

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 98, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 360 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible

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