Theme Park Inc.

Theme Park Inc.

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
Theme Park	1994
Theme Hospital	1997
Shin Theme Park	1997
Theme Park World	1999
Aquarium	2000
Theme Park Inc.	2001

Warnings

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

Theme Park Inc. is a singleplayer bird's-eye view building game in the Theme Park series.

General information

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

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc v2 DRM.

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

Game data

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\data

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\save

Video

In-game video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		640x480 only by default. It's possible to hex edit the executable to have access to higher resolutions with Hor+ output, but all the texts disappear, making the game unplayable, and also the sides of the image are culled.
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
High dynamic range display (HDR)
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
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Japanese

Issues unresolved

dgVoodoo2 and DDrawCompat cause graphical glitches and crashes on NVIDIA and Intel GPUs

No known workaround other than to run without wrappers with modified low, med and high.sam files, or use DXVK.

Issues fixed

Game installer crashes on startup

Run autorun.exe in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP2.[citation needed]

Game crashes on startup

Use DXVK
Flickering and other stability issues can occur. Download DXVK. Extract dxgi.dll, from the \x32 subfolder to <path-to-game>. Run the game.

Game does not work on Windows 10

Change the settings files manually[citation needed]
Navigate to <path-to-game>\Data. Open low.sam, med.sam and high.sam with a text editor. In all 3 files, change both the value of GraphicalOptions.RENDER32 and GraphicalOptions.TEXTURE32 from 0 to 1. Save the files and 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
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	360 MB
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM DirectX 7 compatible