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Theme Park Inc.

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Theme Park Inc.
Theme Park Inc. cover
Developers
Bullfrog Productions
Climax Group
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Re-release Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows January 29, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Building
Themes Amusement park
Series Theme Park
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Theme Park Inc. on Wikipedia
Theme Park
Theme Park 1994
Theme Hospital 1997
Theme Park World 1999
Theme Park Inc. 2001

Warnings

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

Theme Park Inc. is a singleplayer bird's-eye view building game in the Theme Park series.

General information

Released in the US as SimCoaster, and in Germany as Theme Park Manager.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

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

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
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.
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
Controller types

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Japanese

Issues fixed

Game installer crashes on startup

Run autorun.exe in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP3.[citation needed]

Game crashes on startup

Use dgVoodoo 2[citation needed]
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe, as well as D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll from the MS\x86 subfolder to <path-to-game>.
  3. Run the game.

Game does not work on Windows 10

Change the settings files manually[citation needed]
  1. Navigate to <path-to-game>\Data.
  2. Open low.sam, med.sam and high.sam with a text editor.
  3. In all 3 files, change both the value of GraphicalOptions.RENDER32 and GraphicalOptions.TEXTURE32 from 0 to 1.
  4. Save the files and run the game.

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio QSound

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 360 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible


Notes

  1. 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]
  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