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Total Club Manager 2005

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Total Club Manager 2005
Total Club Manager 2005 cover
Developers
EA Canada
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows October 22, 2004
Total Club Manager 2005 on MobyGames
Total Club Manager 2005 on Wikipedia

Warnings

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

Key points

The game crashes during the match on Windows 8 and 10. See Game crashing on newer versions of Windows.[1]

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SafeDisc 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.

Essential improvements

Patches

Official patch v1.01 can be found here.
Official patch v1.01 to v1.02 can be found here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\EA SPORTS\TOTAL CLUB MANAGER 2005\data\cmn\[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\TCM 2005\games

Video settings

Technical options
Technical options

Template:Video settings

Windowed

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

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio options
Audio options

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Versus, Hot seat
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Game crashing on newer versions of Windows

Game crashing on newer versions of Windows[5]
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2 from here.
  2. Extract the content of the zip file.
  3. Go to MS/x86 folder and copy D3D9.dll, DDraw.dll and D3Dlmm.dll.
  4. Paste the copied dll files in the game folder.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0b
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 700 Mhz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB (256 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 9.0b compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0b compatible sound card
Other 8 speed CD-ROM drive

Notes

  1. 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]
  2. 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

  1. Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-02-24
    Tested the game on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit version 1909 with dgVoodoo 2.63.1
  2. Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  3. Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  4. Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-01-31
    Enable windowed mode
  5. Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-02-24
    Works with dgVoodoo 2.63.1