anyone played it? I'm in the middle of 'acquiring' it and I'm just wondering how good it is.

I havent and despite my dislike for FIFA/EA games i'm actually quite tempted.

Let us know how it is.

Download going well? What percentage is it on now?

4.3%

Pretty big file, should be finished tomorrow if I just leave my laptop on over night

Hmm can i have the link hansen?

Mines on 1%

I just went on ISOhunt.com and typed in Fifa manager 2008

gotta have Utorrent for it to work

Or Bittorrent.

Same thing

Hope this game's good, especially with how fecked up my ETA is, went from 16 hours to 3 days

This games got quite a few nice features, just looked for a review and it definitely seems to be good.

Thanks alot hansen & dr dolittle

I had 2003 and 2004 of FIFA Manager which was called Total Club Manager back then but Football Manager 08 has been my first management game since them.

How's your's going Hansen?

10%

3GB of data is gonna take a fecking age.

14%. You think you've got it bad, I've got 4GB

Knowing my luck I'll have downloaded the one that won't work without a CD

I hope it doesn't need the CD cause I cba with arsing round with ripping and modifying the thing like I had to with FM08

Wouldn't the person who put the torrent up leave a note about that in the description?

Probably but I didn't read. It's a zipped file so I can't see everything that comes with it.

The No CD crack will be on the internet anyway, so not missing out much if it doesn't.

How you doing at the moment with it Hansen?

46%

Only another 18 hours or so to go, apparently.

Should have it done by Friday

I've got 33.5% 14 hours to go. Downloading in between 54-75kb/s

I had a go on it before christmas. But never got round to playing it properly, it ran really slow on my laptop, so i gave up after a few hours of progressing only a few days. It's got a load of good features but i think it uses alot more system resources than FM due to all the fancy graphics and stuff. I never had problems with GTA, Pro Evo or FM on my laptop either, just this game,even though the specs say i should have been fine.



My laptop is about 3 years old though so probably will be fine with a newer one or more powerful desktop with Vista.

Also it only took me a few hours to download

verdict: great game, a bit dodgey with regards to transfer budgets, but the signins are far more realistic, instead of having to offer 200million to sign Rooney like you would on Footy manager.

More in depth, giving you more control over the club, can set up youth academies across the world, seems there's no set potential, every player is able to improve far beyond that on Football manager.

The 3D match engine, doesn't look great but it's a lot better than those little balls bobbing around the place.

Buy/download it, well worth the money/wait.

Fecking waited 4 days to download it, now its asking for a fecking password

It's either

87078219

or

eda12630efac73b0ab25f29fc3e400d2

I think...

I was downloading it and it said "system file limitation error". Got to hate Vista.

Thank you

Hmmm i need some help hansen, now that its all unziped what do i press to install it???Auto run?

FFS its asking for the code on the back of the manual or cd/dvd case

buy the fucking game then.

Alternatively type in fifa manager 2008 serial into google.

If you want it to work without having to rip it to CD, install daemon tools.

and then install the NO CD crack, which will be in the files you've downloaded.

i was more going for the point that if you're illegally downloading a game, don't complain constantly about the hassle of installing it.

ahh.

Yeah, you're right.

You're screwing someone out of a decent bit of money, you can't really complain

i pay it back

I spent all my money on my ps3 otherwise i would

lol its asking for a cd/dvd now should i just delete it now?

No, go through the files, one of them has a crack so you don't need the CD.

Gone through them and there has 3 different fifa manager shortcuts 2 say incert cd/dvd the other one says Could not load the DLL "GfxCore. dll" Error Number "126" Error messages: That indicated was not found
module. Did i maybe not download the right one?

did you go to programme files > EA Sports

It's the nbak file, I think. I can't remember

No nbak file only a Fairlight one but thats the one with the error

then try searching on the internet?

After that I can't help you

Prefer Football Manager. Although the "Find a Club" mode is interesting.

it's really easy to make transfers on this

If you go to exchange a player, by putting the cursor over the club (when on the transfer market page) it'll tell you what position they're after. You can then offer a player you don't want who plays that position to sign that player cheaper.

I've been trading out my shite reserve players and signing quality like Collocini and Rafael van der Vaart