Difference between revisions of "Total Club Manager 2004"

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Total Club Manager
Subseries of FIFA
The F.A. Premier League Football Manager (series)
Total Club Manager 2003	2002
Total Club Manager 2004	2003
Total Club Manager 2005	2004
FIFA Manager (series)

Warnings

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

Key points

Released in Germany as Fussball Manager 2004 and in France as LNF Manager 2004.

The game does work in Windows 8 and 10, but you need to install the legacy DirectX application in order to work on these OS.^[1]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc DRM^{[Note 1]}

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

This game is not available digitally.

Official patch v1.2 can be found here.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\EA SPORTS\TOTAL CLUB MANAGER 2004\data\cmn\^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\TCM 2004\games

Technical options

Windowed mode^[4]
Go to <path-to-game> Open `user.config` with the notepad. Look for `windowed=0` and change 0 to 1. Save and exit.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

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Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	98, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 600 Mhz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB (192 MB for 2000, XP)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	AGP or PCI 3D graphics accelerator with Direct3D support 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
Other	8 speed CD-ROM drive

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[2] 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.^[3]
↑ 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).

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 '''Key points'''
 {{ii}} Released in Germany as '''Fussball Manager 2004''' and in France as '''LNF Manager 2004'''.
-{{--}} Game does not work in Windows 8 and 10.<ref>{{Refcheck|user=AlRayes BRN|date=2020-01-28|comment=Tested the game on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit version 1909}}</ref>
+{{ii}} The game does work in Windows 8 and 10, but you need to install the legacy DirectX application in order to work on these OS.<ref>{{Refcheck|user=Jenel|date=2020-01-28|comment=Tested the game on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit version 1909}}</ref>
 ==Availability==