Collection of fixes for Theme Park World and Theme Park Inc

Theme Park World

• If you had already installed the game:

  • Backup your saves
  • Uninstall the game
  • Delete the installation folder (by default C:\Program Files (x86)\Bullfrog\Theme Park World)
  • Delete the corresponding folder in your VirtualStore if it exists (by default C:\Users\<Your username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Bullfrog\Theme Park World)
  • Restart your computer

• Install the game

• Copy the following folders from your disc into your installation folder:

  • Data/Movies
  • Data/levels/fantasy/Music
  • Data/Levels/hallow/Music
  • Data/levels/jungle/Music
  • Data/levels/space/Music

• Install the patch 2.0 (you can find it in the TPW folder)

• Copy TP.exe and TP_AltRes.exe from the "TPW" folder into your installation folder

• Copy the files from the "Common" folder into your installation folder

• Inside your installation folder, set the file "Data/tpwfnt/DONOTREMOVE.txt" as read-only

• Restart your computer

• Optional: if you want to play with the bonus content from the Gold edition, copy the files from "TPW/Bonus content" into your installation folder

You can now launch the game. If you installed the game in "C:\Program Files (x86)" (which is the default) or any other folder that requires admin privileges, I would recommend you run the game as administrator otherwise you may have some minor font issues. Alternatively you can try copying the files from "TPW/Fonts" inside your installation folder (but don't do both, as the game will remove these files if it is run as admin).

Remember to set your graphic settings to "high" and make sure the hardware renderer is enabled in the options for better graphics.

Theme Park Inc

• If you had already installed the game:

  • Backup your saves
  • Uninstall the game
  • Delete the installation folder (by default C:\Program Files (x86)\Bullfrog\Theme Park Inc)
  • Delete the corresponding folder in your VirtualStore if it exists (by default C:\Users\<Your username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Bullfrog\Theme Park Inc)
  • Restart your computer

• Install the game

• Copy Game.exe and Game_AltRes.exe from the "TPI" folder into your installation folder

• Copy the files from the "Common" folder into your installation folder

• Inside your installation folder, set the file "Data/tpwfnt/DONOTREMOVE.txt" as read-only

• Restart your computer

• Optional: if you want to play with the bonus content from the North American version, copy the files from "TPI/Bonus content" into your installation folder

You can now launch the game. If you installed the game in "C:\Program Files (x86)" (which is the default) or any other folder that requires admin privileges, I would recommend you run the game as administrator otherwise you may have some minor font issues. Alternatively you can try copying the files from "TPI/Fonts" inside your installation folder (but don't do both, as the game will remove these files if it is run as admin).

Remember to set your graphic settings to "high" and make sure the hardware renderer is enabled in the options for better graphics.

Troubleshooting

If your game crashes at start or does not launch, this may be caused by a font issue (more info here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200628063012/https://www.adamhearn.co.uk/games/themeparkworld/tpwwin2kfix.html). Please try this:

• Follow the installation procedure again, including the restarts. Do not launch the game!
• Copy the files from "TPW/Fonts" (for Theme Park World) or "TPI/Fonts" (for Theme Park Inc) into your installation folder
• Inside your installation folder, set all the files in "data/tpwfnt" as read-only
• Restart your computer
• Hopefully, you should now be able to play the game

Changing your resolution

The preferred way for changing your resolution is by editing the "data\Resolution.sam" file. By default, resolution is set at 1024x768 but you can change the number after "Res.RESOLUTION" to force the resolution you want. Please be aware though that increasing the resolution may have a negative impact on Theme Park World stability, and WILL have a negative impact on Theme Park Inc stability.

Here is a list of all resolutions for the standard executable:

• 1 → 512x384
• 2 → 640x480
• 3 → 800x600
• 4 → 1024x768
• 5 → 1280x1024
• 6 → 1600x1200
• 7 → 2048x1536

Alternatively, you can use the "AltRes" executable (TP_AltRes.exe for TPW, Game_AltRes.exe for TPI) that provides a different set of resolutions, better suited for nowadays monitors:

• 1 → 512x384
• 2 → 640x480
• 3 → 720x540
• 4 → 960x720
• 5 → 1440x1080
• 6 → 1920x1440
• 7 → 2880x2160

dgVoodoo

If DDrawCompat does not work for you, or if for some reason you just prefer using dgVoodoo, a ready-to-use config file is provided in the "dgVoodoo" folder.

Note that only the config file is provided, you still need to download the dgVoodoo files on the official website.

Detailed list of changes

• Fonts should now work corectly in both games thanks to the addition of a read-only dummy file in Data/tpwfnt that prevents the deletion of the tpwfnt folder. The previous way of doing things (putting the fonts directly in tpwfnt as read-only) actually broke the in-game fonts so it is now advised to do that only if the game does not work at all.

• The text now correctly appears on the park gates and the rides. To fix that, usp10.dll was renamed to usp11.dll as Windows seems to prefer using its own non-working version of usp10.dll

• Both games executables have been fixed to avoid the issue where textures are replaced by white squares on large parks. This occured quite often in TPI and very rarely in TPW. From my understanding, this was caused by a miscalculation when the games estimate the amount of memory required if 32bit textures are enabled. This bug has been mitigated by the modification of a constant involved in the calculation to make the memory allocation estimation 8 times higher than normal.

  • For those who want to apply the fix themselves:
    • TPW: Replace 24 10 C1 E0 10 with 24 10 C1 E0 13 in TP.exe with a hex editor
    • TPI: Replace 24 0C C1 E7 10 with 24 0C C1 E7 13 in Game.exe with a hex editor

• DDrawCompat is used to fix most of the graphic issues on modern systems

• The bonus content from the North American versions are provided. Moreover, the two bonus rides for TPI have been fixed to work on non-english version of the game (the translations files were missing in the wad archive) although their name will be in english

• Resolution will be forced to 1024x768 in both games as specified in "Data/Resolution.sam"

• Alternate executables are provided with a different set of resolutions.

  • For those who want to change one of the resolution themselves:
    • TPW: With a hex editor, search for all occurences of <32 bit integer for resolution width> C7 05 30 19 7A 00 <32 bit integer for resolution height> (e.g. for 640x480: 80 02 00 00 C7 05 30 19 7A 00 E0 01 00 00) in TP.exe and set the width and height to match your new resolution. If you use DDrawCompat, don't forget to add your new resolution in ddrawcompat.ini
    • TPI: With a hex editor, Search for all occurences of <32 bit integer for resolution width> C7 05 C8 C8 A2 00 <32 bit integer for resolution height> (e.g. for 640x480: 80 02 00 00 C7 05 C8 C8 A2 00 E0 01 00 00) in Game.exe and set the width and height to match your new resolution. If you use DDrawCompat, don't forget to add your new resolution in ddrawcompat.ini

• The file high.sam has been modified to make the game look a bit better. Anisotropic 16x is also enforced in DDrawCompat (see ddrawcompat.ini if you want to change that)

• The QMixer DLL that is provided is a bit newer than the one distributed with the game. It seems to solve a few sound issues

• The SFMAN32 DLL is provided in the "Midi" folder. The games might use this DLL if there is midi driver named "Soundfount" on your system, but this is untested.

Known issues

• Random crashes. It may or may not be related to graphics settings. In TPI at least, having a resolution above 1024x768 makes the game really unstable.
• Music archives in TPI are corrupted for the 2nd and 3rd parks, leading to music disappearing in the late game. Corrupted music tracks do not seem to be recoverable.
• TPI does not handle non-ascii characters very well for prebuilt coasters (e.g. the "é" character). Names are likely to be cut.