FM2009 Patch 9.01 Changelist

Compatibility

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- Fixed Intel 900 series not being able to run in 3D (including the Intel 950 GMA chipset)

- Handling cases of Intel drivers incorrectly reporting the vertex shader model.

- Improved compatibility with splash screen movies on below minimum specification hardware that could cause the game not to launch.

- Improved compatibility for detecting graphics cards with pixel shaders but below the minimum specifications that could cause the game not to launch.

- Fixed cases of the mouse getting stuck in right-click mode on the Mac

Crash Fixes

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- Fixed crash when claiming the same player from the MLS Waiver Draft more than once

General

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- Adjusted the fitness/condition of virtual players

- Adjusted attendance increases for big teams after winning leagues

- Adjusted expansion capacities of new stadiums built in the game

- Adjusted the effect of a new stadium on club attendances

- Stopped holiday option applying for jobs at lower division clubs when the user is in charge of a national team

- Stopped players been delighted to have signed a new contract when they are just out on loan

- Tweaked the assistant manager's monthly training report to better reflect the changes of player attributes

- Reduced player condition drop in the off-season

- Stopped non-managerial staff members being marked in landmarks as "Manager <x> leaves <team>" when they take on a manager role at another club

- Adjusted the attribute assignment when filling in blanks for researched players in the database

- When a user takes control of a club which had a player/manager, the player/manager now leaves the club instead of reverting to just a playing role

- Adjusted friendly attendances for matches involving big clubs or rival clubs

- Don't get asked to appoint club captain immediately when taking over a club if the season is over already

- Fixed Fastest Goal club record not updating

- Stopped manager who sets "International Player" experience having more caps and/or goals than the record holder(s) of that nation

- Fixed Dutch virtual players showing the Dutch language twice in their list of languages in the player personal profile

- Detail Level now remembered correctly for reserve competitions after loading a saved game

- Fixed bug where user would sometimes not be able to team talks to be controlled by assistant manager

Interface

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- Team History screen tables now remember scrollbar position when moving between teams

- No more unnecessary spacers on the Quicklinks bar when unemployed

- No more invalid column error in player trials history

- Edit boxes scroll to the cursor

- Transfer listing a player on a team tactics screen now updates the status flags for that player

- Fixed bug where swapping players with light and serious injuries on the tactics panel caused both players to show in the serious injury colour

- Fixed bug where shirt numbers on team tactics panel were clashing with the background colour

- Managers of B clubs now have the option to allow assistant manager to take control of friendlies

- Fixed the stadium condition information label which was showing "unknown" for several stadiums

- When viewing the draw for the Euro Cup group phase, the groups are now shown correctly

- Fixed home/away floating panels not remembering positions.

- Standardised layout of motivation, team ratings and match stats floating panels

- Removed player condition from key player widgets when viewing previous matches as highlight data does not contain condition data

- Fixed missing match time when viewing previous matches.

- Added home page menu item to bookmarks menu.

- Characters no longer sometimes print twice after a key press in full screen mode

- Fixed competition news icon indicator link going to inbox.

- Altered colour of cannot play status icon for non injuries and suspensions

- Any player sent off whilst the user is changing tactics is now removed from the pitch panel

- Fixed a bug where sometimes when changing captain in a match the wrong player would be shown as captain on the player ratings panel

- Fixed bug which would cause the past meetings table to become sorted incorrectly

- Fixed bug where the tooltip on the captain selection panel would say 'Vice-Captain' for all entries below the vice captain

- Fixed bug where some people’s names on the club favoured personnel list would be underlined when they could not be viewed

- Fixed players not playing as strikers being listed on the milestones list during a goal drought

- Fixed bug where players in a reserve team were shown on a squad screen regardless of the filter set.

Match Viewer

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- Fixed some kick animations not being played

- Animations (e.g. kicks, saves, headers, tackles) now synchronised better with actual ball contact

- Fixed possibility of commentary being displayed half a second early unintentionally

- Match time slider can now be used to view the whole match and not just highlights

- Removed assistant feedback link from the match screen when team has no assistant manager present

- Tweaked the assistant feedback for tactical suggestions on opposition instructions at the start of the match

- Fixed assistant manager commenting on language barriers when most of the team is of same (foreign) nationality

- Tweaked the assistant manager feedback levels based on attributes

- Fixed some kit clash issues

- Fixed bug where user isn't taken back to a highlight in split view after making tactical changes

- Fixed bug where if a human watching a match leaves, then comes back, the match time slider was not showing the correct highlights/periods

- Added prev/next highlight buttons in highlight slider as separate buttons

- Behaviour of team name links in match screen is now consistent across views

- Fixed not being able to go to Tactics screen at half time in extra time in TV view

- Fixed text difference "TV View"/"TV Mode"

- Fixed injury times in the TV view match report widget not fitting properly

- Fixed links in offence notifications

- Fixed linesman’s flag appearing in pop ups for fouls

- Fixed a bug when a tactical change made during a match highlight would sometimes cause the match highlight to disappear from the match time slider.

- Fixed a bug where the team stats panel on the match screen would sometimes not update if the user paused the match then switched to this panel.

- If user views highlights of an old match in the middle of a current match, the current match shows the correct kits in 3d when the user returns

- Fixed user not being able to go to tactics screen at half time in extra time in TV view

- Fixed layout of goal update widget

- Fixed mismatching hint text for tactics button in TV View

- Fixed floating widgets jumping when setting up TV View

- Tactics buttons in TV View go to team talk at full time

- Added hints to the TV View tactics buttons

- Fixed replay speed slider not being visible on classic view

- Added replay speed to TV View

- Fixed "Live" button not updating when dragging highlight slider to non-highlight area

- Exits replay properly when user sets playback to live using method other than "Exit Replay" button

- Fixed scoreboard showing wrong data during match setup when viewing matches from Intro screen

Sounds

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- Fixed half time whistles and some other sounds occasionally playing twice when watching a match

Network

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- Fixed game freeze when user joins a network game using an empty IP address

- Fixed bug where a match between two human managers may not carry on after a forced tactic change is made

Manager/Player Interaction

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