Ski Park Manager

Ski Park Manager is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric building, business and sports game.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
ZOOM Platform		2003 Edition.

The 2003 Edition adds free build and scenario modes.

Move, delete or rename the intro videos
Go to `<path-to-game>`. Move, delete or rename the `FMV` folder.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\simski.cfg^{[Note 1]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saved Games\^{[Note 1]}

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Hardcoded to 800x600. Using dgVoodoo 2 to forcefully change the resolution does change the in-game rendering resolution, but the cursor is duplicated and the UI is stretched regardless of the forced resolution or aspect ratio.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Use dgVoodoo 2.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

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

In-game audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Effects and music Bringing up the audio settings menu will mute the game on the OS level until manually unmuted.
Surround sound
Subtitles		No speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio		Present in Zoom Platform release as an .OGG file.

Registry edit

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microids\Ski Park Manager 2003.
Change the Language key to 0 for English, 1 for French, 2 for German, 3 for Italian.

Values 4 (Portuguese) and 5 (Spanish) are valid but their localization files are incomplete. Setting a higher number will crash the game.

This issue occurs due to two files requiring a French diacritic in the filename.

The Zoom Platform release fixed this issue in their release of the game on 23 December 2021.

Rename misconfigured files
Go to `<path-to-game>\sons` Rename `Gare de remontees.wav` to `Gare de remontées.wav`. Rename `Tempete de neige blizzard.wav` to `Tempête de neige blizzard.wav`.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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).