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The F.A. Premier League Football Manager 2001

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The F.A. Premier League Football Manager 2001
The F.A. Premier League Football Manager 2001 cover
Developers
Electronic Arts UK
Publishers
EA Sports
Release dates
Windows September 8, 2000
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
The F.A. Premier League Football Manager 2001 on MobyGames
The F.A. Premier League Football Manager 2001 on Wikipedia
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 Fussball Manager Bundesliga 2001.
Installing on 64-bit systems requires a workaround. See Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows.
Getting the game to work on Windows 8 and 10 requires a workaround. See Game not launching on newer versions of Windows.[1]

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
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.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

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

Video

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

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Stretched, 800x600 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Different camera angles can be selected during the match.
Windowed
Use dgVoodoo 2.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Use dgVoodoo 2.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Use dgVoodoo 2.
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
Mouse and keyboard are required to play the game.
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
No options to turn off sounds in-game.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Text based game.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Alt+Tab crashes the game.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

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

Issues fixed

Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows

Installer not working on 64-bit machines[4]
  1. Copy the content in the game CD/ISO to a new folder on your desktop.
  2. Download InstallShield 3 shortcut from this link.
  3. Open and extract the downloaded file (setup32.exe) to the Setup folder found in the extracted CD/ISO content.
  4. Double click on setup32.exe and install the game.

Game not launching on newer versions of Windows

Game not launching on newer versions of Windows[5]
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2 from here.
  2. Extract the content of the zip file.
  3. Go to MS/x86 folder and copy D3D8.dll, DDraw.dll and D3Dlmm.dll.
  4. Paste the copied dll files in the game folder.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Glide
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 Mhz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB (64 MB for Windows 2000)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 150 MB
Video card (GPU) PCI or AGP video card with DirectDraw compatible driver
4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 7 compatible sound card
Other 4x 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. 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).

References

  1. Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-02-09
    Tested the game on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit version 1909 with dgVoodoo 2.63.1
  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 2020-02-08
    Windows 64-bit machines installer fix
  5. Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-02-08
    Works with dgVoodoo 2.63.1