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FIFA 2001

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FIFA 2001
FIFA 2001 cover
Developers
EA Canada
Publishers
EA Sports
Release dates
Windows October 31, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Direct control
Genres Sports
Sports Football (Soccer)
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary
Series FIFA
FIFA 2001 on MobyGames
FIFA 2001 on Wikipedia
FIFA World Cup (series)
FIFA International Soccer 1993
FIFA Soccer 96 1995
FIFA 97 1996
FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 1997
FIFA 99 1998
FIFA 2000 1999
FIFA 2001 2000
FIFA Manager (series)
FIFA Football 2002 2001
FIFA Football 2003 2002
FIFA Football 2004 2003
FIFA Football 2005 2004
FIFA 06 2005
FIFA 07 2006
FIFA Online (series)
FIFA 08 2007
FIFA 09 2008
FIFA 10 2009
FIFA 11 2010
FIFA 12 2011
FIFA 13 2012
FIFA 14 2013
FIFA 15 2014
FIFA 16 2015
FIFA 17 2016
FIFA 18 2017
FIFA 19 2018
FIFA 20 2019
FIFA 21 2020
FIFA 22 2021
FIFA 23 2022
EA Sports FC 24 2023

Warnings

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

FIFA 2001[Note 1] is a singleplayer and multiplayer sports game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts via their EA Sports brand. It is a licensed FIFA game.

It was first released in North America on October 31, 2000, followed by Europe and Japan on November 10 and December 7 respectively.

General information

FIFA 2001 Online

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SafeDisc V1 DRM[Note 2]
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
This game is not available digitally.
Demo

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\EA SPORTS\FIFA 2001\user[Note 3]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Up to 1280x1024.Main Menu Capped 640x480.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
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)
Enabled by default in D3D. In Glide Vsync can be forced from 3dfx wrapper.
60 FPS
Main Menu Capped 30fps.
120+ FPS
Glide capped 63fps
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
The main theme is "Bodyrock" by Moby. All other music is licensed (various artists)

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Danish
Finnish
French
German
Norwegian
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
EA Brasil.
Swedish
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4
LAN play
8 Versus
Online play
20 Versus
The official multiplayer service has been shut down.

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium MMX 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 80 MB
Video card (GPU) PCI or AGP video card
2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible
Other 4x CD-ROM Drive


Notes

  1. Also known as FIFA Soccer 2001: Major League Soccer and FIFA 2001: World Championship in North America and Japan respectively.
  2. 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]
  3. 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