Sid Meier's SimGolf

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Sim
SimCity (series)
SimEarth	1990
SimAnt	1991
SimLife	1992
SimFarm	1993
SimHealth	1994
SimTower	1994
SimIsle	1995
SimTown	1995
SimPark	1996
SimGolf	1996
SimTunes	1996
SimSafari	1998
The Sims (series)
Sid Meier's SimGolf	2002

Key points

Some minor compatibility issues on modern Windows systems

General information

Official developer site

Encyclopedia of SimGolf - A very small wiki for SimGolf

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc v2 DRM^{[Note 1]}.

SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Newer copies of the game come bundled with patch 1.03 on the disc. A manual install is required though

Demo

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

Patch 1.03 is the latest patch available for the game.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows

Video settings[edit]

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Locked in 800x600
Multi-monitor		Expects Monitor 1 to be on the left, otherwise gets confused (e.g. changes resolution of left monitor, but displays on right 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

Input settings[edit]

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		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Audio settings[edit]

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

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95 (OSR-2)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 300 MHz	Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	350 MB
Video card (GPU)	8 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible	16 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]

References

↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16

[3] SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]

[1] Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16

[2] Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16

[Note 1]

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Developers

	Firaxis Games
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows	January 23, 2002