Updated Netbook Guide for Football Manager 2010 is here!
While I’m away from home, I’ve been looking for something to play on my NC10 that’s reasonably absorbing. I decided on Football Manager 2009, and set about getting it installed.
Installing worked fine, patching worked fine, and activating worked fine (as you might expect). What didn’t work was actually playing the game… Every time I launched the program, it would appear as a process in the task manager, but no window would appear. If I tried launching the program again, I got the error message:
Football Manager 2009 is already running.
I researched the issue, and eventually found a forum of NC10 owners. They suggested running the game with the following flags: -windowed -small_screen.
To do this, you need to right click on a shortcut to Football Manager, and go to Properties. Then, in the Shortcut tab, after where it says Target, it will have the location of the program (“C:/Program Files/…”. Add the -windowed -small_screen after the location, outside the quotes and with a space between the location and -windowed as well as a space between -windowed and -small_screen.
My shortcut target is as follows:
“C:Program FilesSports InteractiveFootball Manager 2009fm.exe” -windowed -small_screen
After making this change, the game starts up. The only problem is that I cannot click Preferences without the game crashing.
So there you have it – Football Manager 2009 on the Samsung NC10.
And now please excuse me — I’ve got a football team to manage!
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