TheFjordFox Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Anyone else got to play this game back in the days when it was new and fresh? In ye olde days of 2002? 🙂 For me personally, it's a game I like to come back to every now and then and just chillax with some digital golfing mixed with the the sims universe. Never gets old for me, tho it does get tedious when your course gets to a certain point! 😛 If I'm not mistaken, this should be abandonware by now. I have at least seen discussions of it where it has been linked to as such. Pro tip to get it to work properly - I fiddled around a bit with it, well, a damn lot, actually... and finally I managed to make it work properly (somewhat, in a 800x600 window in the middle of my screen, but other than that all good) - it seems the trick is to run it in Windows XP Service Pack 2 compatibility mode, and "run as administrator" ticked on. There may or may not be other steps, but this worked for me on Windows 10! I'm currently doing a playthrough of if on youtube, if anyone wants to follow along! Going through it on Impossible difficulty until I got 18 holes and a damn nice course, or the game eventually breaks down on me and spirals into an unrecoverable domino-effect of horrendousness, as it might, due to the difficulty level and certain game-mechanics. Not much more to it than simple relaxed sim gaming, really! Hope it will be of some value to at least one other person out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagger Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 I checked abandonwaregames.net and Sid Meier's Sim Golf is available as a free download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane99 Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 I have not played it, nor have I ever heard of it. But it does look like a fun time. 11 hours ago, TheFjordFox said: Anyone else got to play this game back in the days when it was new and fresh? In ye olde days of 2002? 🙂 For me personally, it's a game I like to come back to every now and then and just chillax with some digital golfing mixed with the the sims universe. Never gets old for me, tho it does get tedious when your course gets to a certain point! 😛 If I'm not mistaken, this should be abandonware by now. I have at least seen discussions of it where it has been linked to as such. Pro tip to get it to work properly - I fiddled around a bit with it, well, a damn lot, actually... and finally I managed to make it work properly (somewhat, in a 800x600 window in the middle of my screen, but other than that all good) - it seems the trick is to run it in Windows XP Service Pack 2 compatibility mode, and "run as administrator" ticked on. There may or may not be other steps, but this worked for me on Windows 10! I'm currently doing a playthrough of if on youtube, if anyone wants to follow along! Going through it on Impossible difficulty until I got 18 holes and a damn nice course, or the game eventually breaks down on me and spirals into an unrecoverable domino-effect of horrendousness, as it might, due to the difficulty level and certain game-mechanics. Not much more to it than simple relaxed sim gaming, really! Hope it will be of some value to at least one other person out there! Nice! I will have to add this to my watch list for sure. Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFjordFox Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) Well, there you go - free to download! It's definitely something I'd recommend if you're in the market for just a few hours of relaxes management entertainment in the form this game uniquely provides! 🙂 Oh! If you do download it, you might want the patch that should be optional with it on abandonware sites. Might. You might also not! It just depends on... oh, I'm not really sure. But some people might need it to get the game to work, others might have an easier time getting it to work without. I think ultimately I made the game work without it, and had issues with inverted colours when I tried using it, and had to have my desktop set to a certain resolution to not get glitches graphically etc... it was a whole thing! 😛 But for sure run as admin and in SP2 compatibility. And I assure you, it is indeed a good time! For a while, until things start progressing very slowly due to some decisions the devs have made. But for sure, you'll get a few hours of fun out of it before it starts getting to that point! Edited February 19, 2022 by TheFjordFox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altair Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Quote Well, there you go - free to download! It's definitely something I'd recommend if you're in the market for just a few hours of relaxes management entertainment in the form this game uniquely provides! 🙂 Oh! If you do download it, you might want the patch that should be optional with it on abandonware sites. Might. You might also not! It just depends on... oh, I'm not really sure. But some people might need it to get the game to work, others might have an easier time getting it to work without. I think ultimately I made the game work without it, and had issues with inverted colours when I tried using it, and had to have my desktop set to a certain resolution to not get glitches graphically etc... it was a whole thing! 😛 But for sure run as admin and in SP2 compatibility.  Thanks for the information. I never heard about this game before. I have always wanted to design a golf course so this game seems super fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFjordFox Posted March 4, 2022 Author Share Posted March 4, 2022 It really is! It's simple and a bit dated, but if you can look past that, you can have hours of semi-mindless joy! 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empire Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Wow, it's incredible to see that Sid Meier has worked with Will Wright. Two game designers I truly like and respect! Yet I never had the chnance to play it 😞 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFjordFox Posted March 12, 2022 Author Share Posted March 12, 2022 It's never too late! What's stopping you? 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
