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Theme Park Inc.

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Theme Park Inc.
Theme Park Inc. cover
Developers
Bullfrog Productions
Climax Group
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Re-release Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows January 29, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Building
Themes Amusement park
Series Theme Park
Theme Park Inc. on HowLongToBeat
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Theme Park Inc. on Wikipedia
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Warnings

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

Key points

Released in the US as SimCoaster, and in Germany as Theme Park Manager.

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

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

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
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.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Japanese

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
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS) 9598, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 360 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible


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. ↑ 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