Sim Theme Park (also known as Theme Park World) is the sequel to Theme Park, the theme park management sim created by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released in 1999 for Windows and later ported to other platforms like Playstation and Macintosh. Featuring 3D graphics and 4 different world, the game was a commercial success. To make the game compatible with modern Windows system please follow the instructions below Notes: - the password to extract the archive is TPW - please download the required patch to make the game work on your Windows 7 or Windows 10 system. You can find them on GameBorder: get Theme Park World Win7 Patch or Theme Park World Win10 Patch, depending on your system.
First, download the approperiate patch. Sim Theme Park compatibility patch (Vista. That's because the exe that gets installed/patched is for Sim Theme Park. File description: This is a user generated patch that will allow you to run Sim Theme Park (also known as Theme Park World) to modern Windows 10 computers. Despite its amusing setting and visual appeal, SimTheme Park is at heart a business simulation.
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Theme Park World is a strategy game developed by Bullfrog as the sequel to the successful Theme Park. For some reason (best known by the marketing suits of EA) the game was renamed to Sim Theme Park outside of Europe. Something to do with the [as then] recent acquisition of Maxis no doubt! Anyways, you're probably here because you now run Windows 2000 or XP and cannot get the game to run.
Well, you're not alone - there are many statements of complete incompatibility but hey, I don't believe in all that! Note that there is more than one problem (although many just experience the main one - a crash to the desktop when entering a park).
Bizarre how some things in life are! I was here on Christmas Day 2002 (very much going on Boxing Day in all honesty) having a blast with some of my old games titles. In this case it was a game I 'd bought a long time back - Theme Park World. As I thought I'd accomplished enough for the 'day' I hit the sack at around 4.20 am.
Next morning Theme Park World 'lured' me in for couple more hours punishment with the park visitors! Lunch time took me away from my PC for a short while and I shut it all down vowing to return later. Which of course, I just HAD to;) Upon return, things weren't as they should be - Theme Park World didn't want to start up - crash to desktop (no error) after loading the intro. Bizarre I thought - I had changed NOTHING. You know how it is.
What did I change, no - what COULD have changed? Went through the 'normal' steps of re-installation (about 30 times), checking sound, video and system configuration till I was angry. Dinner was served over the keyboard and soon the day was over. Most of the evening was spent surfing the web for the *golden* answer.
All I found was a reoccurring theme (no pun intended!) - it simply didn't work under Win2K. Err, rubbish I say - I'd just spent 10 hours of my life with it - it worked fine! Being a software developer I grabbed an arsenal of tools. Various monitoring utilities tracked Registry, File and DLL activity. Up popped an error - a 1st chance exception in USP10.dll which to the uninitiated is a Unicode engine DLL that is used when rendering fonts and stuff. Hmm, so what was the game up to?