The F.A. Premier League Football Manager 2000

The F.A. Premier League Football Manager
Subseries of FIFA
The F.A. Premier League Football Manager 99	1999
The F.A. Premier League Football Manager 2000	1999
The F.A. Premier League Football Manager 2001	2000
The F.A. Premier League Manager 2002	2001
Total Club Manager (series)
FIFA Manager (series)

Warnings

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

Key points

Released in Germany as Bundesliga 2000: Der Fussball-Manager and in France as LNF Manager 2000.

Availability

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

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

This game is not available digitally.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\setup^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\games^{[Note 2]}

$3D setup found in <path-to-game>\setup$

3D setup found in <path-to-game>\setup

In-game settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Stretched. Menus, matches and FMVs run in 640x480 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Different camera angles can be selected during the match.
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
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

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 feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Frontend Music can be turned ON and OFF only.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Text based game.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Sound keeps playing.
Royalty free audio

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Installer not working on 64-bit machines^[3]
Copy the content in the game CD/ISO to a new folder on your desktop. Download InstallShield 3 shortcut from this link. Open and extract the downloaded file (setup32.exe) to `Setup\English` folder found in the extracted CD/ISO content. Double click on setup32.exe and install the game.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

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

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 Mhz MMX	Intel Pentium 200 Mhz MMX
System memory (RAM)	32 MB	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	150 MB	800 MB
Video card (GPU)	PCI or AGP video card with DirectDraw compatible driver 1 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.1 compatible	3D graphics accelerator using 3Dfx graphics or Direct 3D capable chipset 4 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 6.1 compatible sound card
Other	4x CD-ROM drive	8x CD-ROM drive

↑ 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]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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).

Developers

	Electronic Arts UK
Publishers
	EA Sports
Release dates
Windows	October 1, 1999
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives	Text-based, Top-down view, Bird's-eye view
Controls	Menu-based
Genres	Sports, Strategy
Sports	Football (Soccer)
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary
Series	The F.A. Premier League Football Manager