FIFA 2001

Warnings

SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected releases).

FIFA 2001^{[Note 1]} is a singleplayer and multiplayer sports game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts via their EA Sports brand. It is a licensed FIFA game.

It was first released in North America on October 31, 2000, followed by Europe and Japan on November 10 and December 7 respectively.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc 1 DRM^{[Note 2]}

SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected releases).

A free demo version is available to download here.

System	Location
Windows

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\EA SPORTS\FIFA 2001\user^{[Note 3]}

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Up to 1280x1024. Main menu is locked to 640x480.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Frame generation		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Enabled by default in D3D. In Glide Vsync can be forced from 3dfx wrapper.
60 FPS		Main menu is capped to 30 FPS.
120+ FPS		Glide renderer is capped at 63 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger support

DirectInput-compatible controllers
Directinput button prompts

PlayStation controllers
PlayStation button prompts
Motion sensors support
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio		The main theme is "Bodyrock" by Moby. All other music is licensed (various artists)

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	4
LAN play	8	Versus
Online play	20	Versus The official multiplayer service has been shut down.

Rating	Explanation
	No intentional AI usage in production. Programs with AI features ok if those features are not used. Note that this is not just generative AI, but ALL AI. You may be surprised what features are supported by AI, such as automatic transcription, automated green screen effects, etc.

The game was released before the existence of generative AI.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows			32-bit executables may need the LAA flag applied to work properly on modern machines.

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium MMX 166 MHz	Intel Pentium 266 Mhz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB	64 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	80 MB	100 MB
Video card (GPU)	PCI or AGP video card 2 MB of VRAM DirectX 7 compatible	PCI or AGP 3D graphics accelerator using Glide or Direct3D compatible chipset 4 MB of VRAM
Other	4x CD-ROM Drive	8x CD-ROM Drive

↑ Also known as FIFA Soccer 2001: Major League Soccer and FIFA 2001: World Championship in North America and Japan respectively.
↑ This version of SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]
↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).