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SimCopter

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SimCopter
SimCopter cover
Developers
Maxis
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows October 31, 1996
SimCopter guide on StrategyWiki
SimCopter on Wikipedia
SimCity
Subseries of Sim
SimCity (1989) 1989
SimCity 2000 1994
SimCity 2000 Network Edition 1996
SimCopter 1996
Streets of SimCity 1997
SimCity 3000 1999
SimCity 4 2003
SimCity Societies 2007
SimCity (2013) 2013

Key points

Game works on modern systems (see Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows).

Availability

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

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.02 adds a better flight model and experimental 3Dfx acceleration.
The patch comes in a 16-bit installer executable and so cannot be installed natively on 64-bit Windows.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
Config files require a hex editor to read and are not easy to interpret.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\My Saved Cities\*.sc2[Note 1]

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Issues fixed

Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows

The original disc release uses a 16-bit installer.
Install with a modified 32-bit installer[citation needed]
  1. Insert the CD.
  2. Copy the contents of disc somewhere temporarily.
  3. Download the InstallShield 3 32-bit Generic Installer.
  4. Extract the new installer into the setup folder.
  5. Run setup32.exe and follow the steps.

Game crashes

The game often runs too fast on modern CPUs and must be slowed down.
Slow down CPU speed[citation needed]

Use a CPU slowdown utility, such as CPU Grabber.

Use an external framerate limiter[citation needed]

Use an external framerate limiter such as one found within FRAPS, RivaTuner, Nvidia Driver, etc. to limit the framerate to around 30 FPS.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Glide 2.1.1 Only available after installing the 1.02 patch and activated via the command line option -v. This mode is experimental and so the HUD and some other features are missing, with a number of graphical glitches also present. Supported by nGlide.
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium/75 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 15 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA video card
512 KB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 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).

References