Singles: Flirt Up Your Life!

Singles: Flirt Up Your Life!

Developers
	Rotobee
Publishers
	Deep Silver
Release dates
Windows	February 14, 2004
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Life sim
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary, Adult, Romance
Series	Singles

Singles
Singles: Flirt Up Your Life!	2004
Singles 2: Triple Trouble	2005

Warnings

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Will not run on modern systems (Windows Vista and newer) without an official patch. See: Issues fixed.

General information

Singles - Official website (retrieved)

Koch Media Knowledge Base - Official support site

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		StarForce 3.03.033.006 DRM

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

This game is not available digitally.

Version differences

Singles + is an updated re-release, including the latest patch and the Kitchen Set DLC. It was released in the UK.

Singles - Extended Version is an updated re-release, including the latest patch, both the Kitchen Set and Make Up DLC, and some exclusive content. It was released in Germany.

The original US (Eidos) release is censored. The game was later re-released uncensored.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Kitchen Set	Adds three furniture items and the option to play custom music.
Make Up	Hair, eye and skin color can be altered.

Some fan-made extensions can be found here: http://www.singles-corner.de/version2eng/extensionsEng.htm.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.4 introduced extensions (DLC) which can add to the functionality of the game. See DLC and expansion packs.

Update 1.6 was the last patch for the EU version only, not for the US (Eidos) version. It includes all of the previous fixes and improvements, and adds a photo session mode. It also installs two official extensions (DLC): Kitchen Set and Make Up.

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename video files[citation needed]
Go to <path-to-game>\World\. Delete or rename guiIntro.awl.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Config

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Savegame

Video

General options.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Off by default. See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)		On by default. See Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		200 fps frame rate cap. See: Refresh rate.

Field of view (FOV)

Set in Game.cfg[citation needed]
Go to the configuration file location. Open Game.cfg with a text editor. Find the line cameraFOV = 65 and set it to your desired value.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Set in Game.cfg[citation needed]
Go to the configuration file location. Open Game.cfg with a text editor. Find the line screenAntialiasing = 0 and set it to your desired value (2-16).

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Set in Game.cfg[citation needed]
Go to the configuration file location. Open Game.cfg with a text editor. Find the line screenVerticalSync = 1 and set it to one of the values: 0 = V-sync off 1 = V-sync on 2 = double V-sync (half the refresh rate) 3 = triple V-sync (a third of the refresh rate) 4 = quadruple V-sync (a quarter of the refresh rate)

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Set in Game.cfg[citation needed]
Go to the configuration file location. Open Game.cfg with a text editor. Find the line filterMode = 3 and set it to 4 to enable anisotropic filtering. Image quality can be further enhanced by forcing a specific filtering level in video card's Control Panel.

Refresh rate

Set in Game.cfg[citation needed]
Go to the configuration file location. Open Game.cfg with a text editor. Find the line refreshRate = 70 and set it to your desired value.

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		Sliders for music, sound, speech, and ambient.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Speech sounds akin to Simlish.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

The game won't start

The game won't run on newer systems owing to an outdated version of StarForce DRM.

Apply official patch[citation needed]
Install the latest patch Update 1.6 Download the fixed executable Singles_1.6_HP.zip from the official support site. Extract the file to <path-to-game>\, overwriting the old executable.

Fixed language files
Copy this fixed config folder into your installation

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98SE	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 1 GHz AMD Athlon 1 GHz	Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1500+
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	700 MB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 2 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	64 MB of VRAM