Football Manager 2008 on Acer Aspire One

I am thinking of Getting the Acer Aspire One, Later Today.

I will use it mainly for work & watching DVD's from USB.

But I am also play alot of Football Manager 2008,

Has anyone else loaded the game on thier Acer ?

Whats the Screen Resolution Like ?

Any feedback would be great.

Cheers

Loz

 

I've bought my One yesterday, and one of the first things I've done is to install FM2008
In short - yes, it works. You'll have to run it windowed because the resolution is too small, but it seems to work quite nicely. I've just played one match, but it doesen't seem to have much problem with processing. Don't know how will it handle in the middle of the season, though. But I think it will be very playable.
I feel that the small screen will be a bigger problem, you can see from the image below what I mean. Screen height is too small to display all the information. Touchpad is quite uncomfortable to use here, so you might want to buy a small notebook mouse.

 

Thanks Kreso,

The screen shot great, Do you have one in the game mode.

I think with time you will get use to the screen scrolling with a mini mouse. I was playing on getting one.
Did you use the cracked No-Cd version ?

I am thinking that a few teaks with a new skin may limit the size of the career bar. giving you a bigger
Preformance attibuties screen.

How many league did you load up ? I was hope to run English Full, Scotish, possible one other,

Cheers Loz

 

I haven't saved a game, so I'll have to start a new game. So, large database, English and Scottich nations, 8 leagues in total. It took him exactly 3 minutes to load the database. And saving a newly created game took some 15 seconds. Not so bad I presume, I don't tihink it starts up much faster on my C2D desktop computer, you can try to compare it with your computer.
Seems that I've started a game with small database (and 4 English leagues) last time, processing now seems a bit sluggish, but playable anyways.
Here are some more shots:

 

Thanks Kreso, I am sold looks great.

You based in Sydney ?

If you have any other information of tweaks give me a shout.

I will pick my One up today from the city and will post information from their.

Cheers

Loz

 

Not Sydney, other part of the world, akshuali. Croatia, hence the Modric screenshot

 

Hey Kreso

I pick up my One last night,

Loaded Football Manager 08, Works well with all the extra facepacks from my
large computer,

Thanks for the screenshots and the feeback.

Cheers and Happy Managing

Loz

 

You might be able to get it full screen by modifying the shortcut to the game.

basically when you go into the properties of the shortcut put.

--fullscreen_height=600 --fullscreen_width=1024.

So the properties of the shortcut path looks sort of like this:

C:\Games\FM2008\fm.exe --fullscreen_height=768 --fullscreen_width=1024.

or whatever your install path is:

Not tested it yet but i'm still tidying up my new xp install and am doing some pre-reasearch

Got my info from http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

 

What is happening with mine ?



http://img167.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... ulosf1.jpg

I have all the drivers installed and have no conflict on the device manager.
I also have dx 9c installed.

 

Hi all,

I'm new to this forum, and I'm new to Linux...

I collect my AAO from Tesco tomorrow and plan / hope to install FM2008 (then 2009 mid-Nov) asap.

I've done a search on here for FM2008 and found this thread - I wanted to know if FM would work with Linux, and on the AAO, which I now know it will. However, what I want to know is: do I need to change the O/S to WinXP for it to work, or is there a way for it work on / with Linux? If so, I'd really appreciate a foolproof, step by step guide on how to do this...

Many thanks, Simon

 

Wine.
Google it, I don't know how to set it up, but it's Windows application emulator (if that's what it's called) for Linux. I think it shouldnt be a problem to set it up.

Anyhow... Has anyone tried FM09 demo? Seems that it doesn't have the alt+f11 option to maximize the screen .
Is it just me and my AAO, or does it crash when you go to preferences?

 

wheni run the football manager 2008 i have this error unable to open in full screen mode..is any trick to make it to open in 1024x600 or what i do to play?

thanks

 

external monitor or Astray or asus programs just search for them

 

Football Manager 2009

try with demo first to see if it works, saving buying or installing the full game if you have it already.

so first install game

then download astray plus from here http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=18260

then set the resolution using astray to 1024x768

then right click on shortcut of fm, in target type -windowed -small_screen (make sure there is a space after the quote, otherwise wont work)

so it should look like this "C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\fm2009.exe" -windowed -small_screen

then it should work, only problem is that it is quite slow, the speed of the game is the same as any machine, but the loading time, mouse response, and button clicking response is slowed down

 

Well it takes more graphics processing power or is it cpu power to do a windowed mode showing the desktop and the game...so don't do that :{P