Poll: The official Football Manager 2008 thread

MarcLister · 14 Feb 2008 at 20:52

flibby said:
Seems fixing Jermain Defoe issue on the database also fixes the Spurs issue as it was a sale clause that mean that Portsmouth gave Tottenham £1,000,000 after X league games - although in the bugged version they gave them £1,000,000 every game he played in

"Who will it affect - People who have the Worldwide Soccer Manager digital download 8.02 patch only."

Yeah! That is why my copy of FOOTBALL MANAGER 2008 has this bug.

Teaf · 14 Feb 2008 at 20:55

MarcLister said:
"Who will it affect - People who have the Worldwide Soccer Manager digital download 8.02 patch only."

Yeah! That is why my copy of FOOTBALL MANAGER 2008 has this bug.

That's for the second bug which is WWSM only

MarcLister · 14 Feb 2008 at 20:56

flibby said:
That's for the second bug which is WWSM only

I took that from the link you gave me.

Teaf · 14 Feb 2008 at 20:59

MarcLister said:
I took that from the link you gave me.

Yeah, it lists two bugs

But in all fairnes he's not exactly written the bugs well, looks like one bug. Can't believe the test teams missed that though, so basically none of the internal or external test teams which is probably hundreds of people noticed that Spurs became mega rich and Pompey wen't into administration.

Issue - Tottenham become very rich, and Portsmouth poor, in the first season.

Who will it affect - Affects all newly started games with 8.02 data update.

Fix - using the data editor provided with the game, load the 8.02 database into the editor. Search in the "clubs" section for "Portsmouth". Go to the "finances" tab, then "contract clauses 2". Find "Jermain Defoe" (5th from bottom in the list). Change "per league appearances" to "after league appearances".

Issue - Problem with the WWSM Mac digital download data editor, and not being able to find users edited data.

Who will it affect - People who have the Worldwide Soccer Manager digital download 8.02 patch only.

Fix - Go to Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2008/db

Move files in there to Documents/Sports Interactive/Worldwide Soccer Manager 2008/db

Start game, and the files will be there.

MarcLister · 14 Feb 2008 at 21:00

flibby said:
Yeah, it lists two bugs But in all fairnes he's not exactly written the bugs well, looks like one bug. Can't believe the test teams missed that though, so basically none of the internal or external test teams which is probably hundreds of people noticed that Spurs became mega rich and Pompey wen't into administration.

Ah I see what you did there. And what Miles did there. Quite poor layout that.

And yes it is quite abominable that no-one spotted that. Aren't they meant to have the data checked quite rigourously?

Teaf · 14 Feb 2008 at 21:03

MarcLister said:
And yes it is quite abominable that no-one spotted that. Aren't they meant to have the data checked quite rigourously?

Yeah, apparantly have quite a few people internally that sort all that before it even goes out to the testing teams. It's kinda odd what they did to Elano as well - they'd increased this stats a lot, he's insanely world class in 8.0.2. Pic below.

http://xs224.xs.to/xs224/08074/elano289.png

Whoever think's he's that good is smoking something.

SCM · 14 Feb 2008 at 21:03

MarcLister said:
That link just points to the first page of the thread.

I know hence why i said look on page 3 onwards

MarcLister · 14 Feb 2008 at 21:06

flibby said:
Yeah, apparantly have quite a few people internally that sort all that before it even goes out to the testing teams. It's kinda odd what they did to Elano as well - they'd increased this stats a lot, he's insanely world class in 8.0.2. Pic below.

http://xs224.xs.to/xs224/08074/elano289.png

Whoever think's he's that good is smoking something.

Hmm. Might load up the 8.0.1 patch and copy his proper stats over.

SCM said:
I know hence why i said look on page 3 onwards

MarcLister · 14 Feb 2008 at 23:03

By the way has anyone else noticed how FM now takes up the full width of the screen? I don't play fullscreen so I can carry on with MSN etc. In the past having FM windowed meant there was space on the left and right of the screen. Its gone now, for me at least. Anyone else got this?

Teaf · 14 Feb 2008 at 23:22

Not for me, it's just the same as normal. Tried just double clicking the title of the application to shrink it down, or manually dragging the sides inwards to their lowest point (which is 1024x768). By the way Marc, any chance you can add the 8.0.2 patch information to the first page mate, just for people browsing the thread and can't find any links.

MarcLister · 14 Feb 2008 at 23:28

Hmm. When I double click it, it shrinks to a very small window. Perhaps it is the new ATI drivers?

Shamikebab · 14 Feb 2008 at 23:57

Works the same for me in a window. My monitors 1680x1050 and I have space for msn down the side.

MarcLister · 14 Feb 2008 at 23:58

Hmm I will pop a screenshot up to show what I mean. Have I broken the 8.0.2 patch?!

http://b.imagehost.org/view/0100/fmscreen.png

Teaf · 15 Feb 2008 at 00:27

I'd try the following:

Pressing the minimise/maximise button on the top three button on the top right, it seems to be maximised in a windowed state so clicking that button will bring it into a state that lets you drag the sides in to make the window smaller. When you click it, it'll probably still be maximised but the difference being should be that the sides, top and bottom should be dragable to make it smaller. Failing that I'd go into the preferences and tick "Full Screen", then confirm, then go back in and untick and confirm again and see if that fixes it.

MarcLister · 15 Feb 2008 at 00:28

Fix it? I don't want to fix it. I love it like this. I've always wondered why FM can't do this.

Teaf · 15 Feb 2008 at 01:06

Now we just seen proper widescreen support for FM! Looks horrific when playing on a widescreen TV/monitor as everything is just stretched.

Doohickey · 15 Feb 2008 at 02:24

flibby said:
Yeah, apparantly have quite a few people internally that sort all that before it even goes out to the testing teams. It's kinda odd what they did to Elano as well - they'd increased this stats a lot, he's insanely world class in 8.0.2. Pic below.

http://xs224.xs.to/xs224/08074/elano289.png

Whoever think's he's that good is smoking something.

Oooh, what skin is that please?

MarcLister · 15 Feb 2008 at 09:20

flibby said:
Now we just seen proper widescreen support for FM! Looks horrific when playing on a widescreen TV/monitor as everything is just stretched.

I wonder if it was intentional from SI Games? Must be? Can't see how new graphics drivers could do this.

Teaf · 15 Feb 2008 at 09:44

Doohickey said:
Oooh, what skin is that please?

It's the Dynamic skin available from sortitoutsi, it's the best skin I've ever came across

Very well made, you can download it from here and the original link from sortitoutsi is here

MarcLister said:
I wonder if it was intentional from SI Games? Must be? Can't see how new graphics drivers could do this.

I would have agreed but I'm not getting the issue you are, could just be something messed up on your install.

MarcLister · 15 Feb 2008 at 10:15

flibby said:
I would have agreed but I'm not getting the issue you are, could just be something messed up on your install.

This didn't happen with the previous patches. I haven't reinstalled. Just installed the 8.0.2 patch.

Poll: The official Football Manager 2008 thread

Would you buy FM09?

Yes definitely

Perhaps, depends on the reviews/bugs

Definitely not