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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
Taxonomy
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives Text-based, Bird's-eye view
Controls Menu-based
Genres Sports, Strategy
Sports Football (Soccer)
Art styles Realistic
Series Total Club Manager
Total Club Manager 2005 on MobyGames
Total Club Manager 2005 on Wikipedia
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

Game does not work in Windows 8 and 10.[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

Technical options
Technical options

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Stretched, maximum resolution 1024x768.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Different camera angles can be selected during the match.
Windowed
no option available in-game, see Windowed.
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)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

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

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Mouse and keyboard are required to play the game.
Controller types

Audio

Audio options
Audio options

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Speech, Match SFX, Menu SFX and Menu music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Text based game.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Sound keeps playing.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

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

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
  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