Total Club Manager 2003
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| Developers | |
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| 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 |
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| Total Club Manager | |
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| Subseries of FIFA | |
| The F.A. Premier League Football Manager (series) | |
| Total Club Manager 2003 | 2002 |
| Total Club Manager 2004 | 2003 |
| Total Club Manager 2005 | 2004 |
| FIFA Manager (series) | |
Warnings
- SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected releases).
Total Club Manager 2003 is a singleplayer and multiplayer text-based and bird's-eye view sports and strategy game in the Total Club Manager series.
The game was released in Germany as Fussball Manager 2003 and in France as LFP Manager 2003.
Installing on 64-bit systems requires a workaround; see Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows. Additionally, getting the game to work on Windows 8 and newer without crashing requires a workaround; see Game crashing on newer versions of Windows.[1]
Availability
- SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected releases).
- A free demo version is available from Archive.org.
Essential improvements
Patches
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
| 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) | |||
| Color blind mode | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync)
| Enable V-sync[4] |
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Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | Manager shouts cannot be remapped. | |
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Keyboard and mouse prompts | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support |
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 | ||||
| Czech | Fan - 1 | |||
| French | ||||
| German |
Network
Multiplayer types
| Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local play | 4 | Versus, Hot seat |
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| LAN play | ||||
| Online play | ||||
Issues fixed
Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows
| Use replacement installer executable[5] |
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Game crashing on newer versions of Windows
| Use dgVoodoo 2[6] |
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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) | ||
| Storage drive (HDD/SSD) | 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
- ↑ This version of SafeDisc 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]
- ↑ 2.0 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-01-26
- Enable V-sync
- ↑ Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-01-25
- Windows 64-bit machines installer fix
- ↑ Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-02-19
- Works with dgVoodoo 2.63.1