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Sid Meier's SimGolf

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Sid Meier's SimGolf
Sid Meier's SimGolf cover
Developers
Firaxis Games
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows January 23, 2002
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres Building, Sports
Sports Golf
Art styles Cartoon
Series Sim
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Sid Meier's SimGolf 2002

Warnings

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

Sid Meier's SimGolf is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric building and sports game in the Sim series.

General information

Encyclopedia of SimGolf - A very small wiki for SimGolf

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work 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.
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.03 is the latest patch available for the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

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.
High-fidelity upscaling
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)

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
Controller types

Audio

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
Japan only.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

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


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] 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.[2]

References