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Total Club Manager 2003

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Total Club Manager 2003
Total Club Manager 2003 cover
Developers
EA Deutschland
Publishers
EA Sports
Release dates
Windows September 20, 2002
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives Text-based, Bird's-eye view
Controls Menu-based
Genres Sports, Strategy
Sports Football (Soccer)
Art styles Realistic
Series Total Club Manager
Total Club Manager 2003 on MobyGames
Total Club Manager 2003 on Wikipedia
Total Club Manager
Subseries of FIFA
The F.A. Premier League Football Manager (series)
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FIFA Manager (series)

Warnings

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

Key points

Installing on 64-bit systems requires a workaround. See Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows.
The game crashes during the match on Windows 8 and 10. See Game crashing on newer versions of Windows.[1]

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
 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.
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Patches

Official patch v1.21 can be found here.
Official patch v1.21 to v1.22 can be found here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\soccer.config[Note 2]

Save game data location

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

Video

Technical options
Technical options

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)
Off by default, see Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS
30 FPS in the menus and 60 FPS during the match.
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Enable V-sync[4]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>
  2. Open soccer.config with the notepad.
  3. Look for VERTICAL_SYNCH=0 and change 0 to 1.
  4. Save and exit.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Manager shouts cannot be remapped.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Keyboard and mouse are required to play the game.
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Speech, Match SFX, Menu SFX, Menu music and Match music.
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
4 Versus, Hot seat
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows

Installer not working on 64-bit machines[5]
  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 crashing on newer versions of Windows

Game crashing on newer versions of Windows[6]
  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
DirectDraw
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) 98, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II MMX 350 Mhz Intel Pentium III 700 Mhz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB (128 MB for 2000, XP) 128 MB (256 MB for 2000, XP)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 450 MB 700 MB
Video card (GPU) AGP or PCI 3D graphics accelerator with Direct3D support
8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible 		16 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) DirectX 8.1 compatible
Other 4x CD-ROM drive 8x 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 2020-02-19
    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 2020-01-26
    Enable V-sync
  5. ↑ Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-01-25
    Windows 64-bit machines installer fix
  6. ↑ Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-02-19
    Works with dgVoodoo 2.63.1