We highly advise people to authenticate through the STEAM platform, as with STEAM installed you will get automatic updates, the first of which is already uploaded and ready to go via STEAM.

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Download 1 – http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=57496

Download 2 – http://rapidshare.de/files/40902317/FM2009v9.1.0Patch.exe

Download 3 – http://www.lespacio.com/fm2009.php (with thanks to Jez @ Laspacio)

Download 4 – http://www.bdgamers.net/2008/11/14/football-manager-2009-released-patched.html (with thanks to Rajiv @ bdgamers.net)

Download 5 – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PNWKHFD3

If after using the patch you are still experiencing problems please check the forums at http://community.sigames.com for more help.

If you wish to mirror the update, feel free, but please email the mirror information to blogs@sigames.com.

For a changelist for the update, please go to http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=60956.

Please note that whilst the update will allow many people with below minimum spec machines / graphics cards who had problems with the demo to get the game up and running, some below-spec graphics cards may require the DirectX 9.0 SDK is installed to run the game. This can be downloaded from the following url:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5493F76A-6D37-478D-BA17-28B1CCA4865A&displaylang=en

We have been unable to test this on every graphics card on the market as, well, we don’t have all of them, but this should fix the problem for the majority of those with below spec machines. If we find some that are still not up and running, we will look into these issues in the coming weeks.

Please also note that for those who want to get the demo up and running on their below minimum spec machines before purchasing, we are still planning on releasing a compatability patch for the demo, and this will follow in the coming days. We do not have a firm date for this as yet.

FM 2009 v9.1.1 Mac Patch

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Download 1 – http://www.lespacio.com/fm2009.php (with thanks to Jez @ Laspacio)

Please ensure that you choose the correct installation directory when asked – This is generally: /Applications/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2009.

WSM 2009 v9.1.0 PC Patch

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WSM 2009 v9.1.1 Mac Patch

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Download 1 – http://www.lespacio.com/fm2009.php (with thanks to Jez @ Laspacio)

FM 2009 v9.1.0 ‘Demo Compatability’ Patch

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FM2009 Mac v9.1.1 ‘Demo Compatbility’ Patch

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FM 2009 PC v1.1 Editor Patch

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WSM 2009 PC v1.1 Editor Patch

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Some of you may have noticed our little teaser page at www.footballmanager.com, but in the evening on Wednesday September 3rd 2008 (UK time), there will be an announcement about what to expect. This will include new features, the release date and a first look at the packshot.

The announcement itself will be in the form of a documentary video made by a company called Remedy Productions who many of you in the UK will have seen popping up at the end of lots of TV shows. This will initially be viewable from the new Sports Interactive You Tube channel, which can be found at www.youtube.co.uk/sigames. The video will be put up there first, and we’ll then embed it into the various SI Games and FM websites sometime later on Wednesday, so it’s well worth subscribing to the channel if you want to get it first. The documentary is going to be between 15 & 20 minutes long in total, and includes many surprises along the way.

“Video is definitely the best way for us to be announcing the key new features for the games, and YouTube is the best place to do that,” commented Miles Jacobson, Studio Director of Sports Interactive. “We hope to surprise our fans with some revolutionary new features, alongside some evolution of areas from our previous games.”

You can catch up with the new features announcement for Football Manager™ 2009 and Football Manager™ Handheld 2009 at www.youtube.co.uk/sigames from Wednesday evening (3rd September) UK time.

So Marc, what everyone wants to know is when the playing public will finally get to join the action in FML.

I’m afraid at this stage I’m not really able to say except for the fact that it won’t be out in March. Everyone is working pretty hard now implementing new features and fixing bugs. We’re into the final straight now that’s for sure.

Things must be getting pretty frantic, making sure everything is fine-tuned for launch?

It’s everything you might expect with such a big and innovative project and such a small and focused development team. There are never enough hours in the day to do everything that we really want to do. We decided very early on to adopt a constant development module and we’re being as reactive as we can to feedback from the current batch of beta testers. This means that even though we might not fit everything into the launch version we’ll be able to get code updates out hopefully every 4-6 weeks and pack in lots of new features.

The beta phase of FML started 9 months ago. How have things changed since then?

I think in reality for some of us it started a lot longer. The game that Oliver (Ov Collyer, co-founder of Sports Interactive) arrived back from Australia wanting to make has evolved so much. When we first got the game up and running it was a frantic race to join the game world as quickly as possible and snap up the best talent within the 100k a day wage budget. This led to problems and imbalance, it felt like it was all about the strikers you signed (Henry was a popular choice).

With this in mind, we added in acquisition fees along with wages meaning when you start the game you have 500k to spend on acquisition fees and 100k a day in wages. There is a balance to be struck and no one can afford any of the superstars in the first season at least.

How are your team, ‘The Carpet Burners’ doing? Still flying high with their youth policy? Why on earth are they called that, anyway?

The best thing about the game is that you can be whatever type of manager you want to be. I love the fact that I can assemble a squad full of youngsters at the start and nurture them through the ranks and at some point sell them on for a massive profit. For me, I get a lot of enjoyment out of the game this way. I also love the fact that I have total control of MY club. I can set the name (I don’t really know where The Carpet Burners came from), I can set the kit design and I can even set the pitch size which due to my tactic I tend to ensure is quite narrow to allow my fast tempo pressing game to flourish.

Because of my youth policy, we really struggled in the first couple of seasons and at times it wasn’t much fun. The catalyst for me was when I’d saved enough money up to buy Kaka and he seemed to galvanise my little babies into a team of superstars. It’s little touches like this that make this a special game.