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The Partners

Windows - 2002

Alt names 最佳拍档, Partnerid, Партнеры
Year 2002
Platform Windows
Released in France, Germany, Italy, United States (2002)
Brazil (2005)
Genre Simulation
Theme Managerial
Publisher Microïds Italia Srl, Monte Cristo Multimedia, Strategy First, Inc.
Developer Monte Cristo Multimedia
Perspective 3rd-Person
Tested on Windows 10
4 / 5 - 6 votes

Description of The Partners

If you haven't played The Partners or want to try this simulation video game, download it now for free! Published in 2002 by Strategy First, Inc., Monte Cristo Multimedia, Microïds Italia Srl, The Partners (aka 最佳拍档, Partnerid, Партнеры) was an above-average managerial title in its time.

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How to play The Partners Windows

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The game was tested on Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 10, it works fine. You may experience some small troubles when you play the game on modern systems, check our Notes for more details

Notes:

  • If the installation doesn't start - try to run the installer in compatibility mode with old version of Windows (98, 2000 or XP) and as administrator
  • It is recommended to install all versions of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable and NET Framework for the correct work of the game. Also it is recommended to install K-Lite Codec Pack for the correct work of in-game videos
  • The game works on DirectX 8, so if you're using Windows 8, 8.1, 10 or 11 - you need to enable DirectPlay: Go to Control Panel, and select 'Programs'. Select 'Turn Windows features on and off', click on 'Legacy Components' and check the box 'DirectPlay'. Select OK, once the installation is done, restart your computer
  • The game didn't have any DRM-protection, only the simple disc check. If you want to play without the disc, use NoCD, simply replace the exe-file in game folder. NoCD for v1.0 showed some generic warnings, should be safe to use. But better to use NoCD for v1.4 or v1.8, they showed 0 warnings
  • If you have the issues when the in-game text is not displaying correctly or not at all then do the following, do the next to fix it: go to The Partners/Data/Sim folder, open Param.ini in Notepad and change the line UseTextCache=1 to UseTextCache=0. Save the file and re-launch the game
  • By default the game supports only 4:3 screen resolutions. It is possible to run the game in high screen resolutions by editing Start.ini file in The Partners/Data folder. Open it in Notepad and in mgFullScreenSize line enter the resolution you need. Unfortunately, UI elements don't scale to higher resolutions, so it will be small
  • As alternative, we suggest to run the game through dgVoodoo 2, to use it copy the dll-files from the MS/x86 folder, dgVoodooCpl.exe and dgVoodoo.conf to the game folder, then run dgVoodoo Control Panel (dgVoodooCpl.exe) and enable the custom screen resolution. We also recommend to use dgVoodoo 2 if you have any graphical glitches in the game
  • If you want to run the game in Windowed mode, edit Start.ini file in The Partners/Data folder, set mgFullScreen to 0

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Comments and reviews

admin 2025-07-18 0 point

We updated this page, added more language versions plus Troubleshooting guide for most common problems

Aline 2024-04-09 0 point

os arquivos estão corrompidos

Lenny 2023-04-14 0 point

This one also had a polish translation. There used to be some torrents of it back in the day.

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Windows Version

DownloadFull-Rip
Pre-installed game with patch #2 and NoCD English version 347 MB
DownloadEuropean multilingual version
English, French & German languages English version French version German version 509 MB
DownloadItalian version Italian version 365 MB DownloadPolish version Polish version 364 MB DownloadBrazilian version Portuguese (Brazilian) version 396 MB DownloadRussian version Russian version 394 MB ManualEnglish version 299 KB

Game Extras

Various files to help you run The Partners, apply patches, fixes, maps or miscellaneous utilities.

PatchPatch #2 (Patch v1.8) English version French version German version 2 MB NocdNoCD for version 1.0
Showed some generic warnings English version German version 977 KB
NocdNoCD for version 1.4 English version French version German version 1 MB ManualFrench version 2 MB NocdNoCD for version 1.8 English version French version German version 1 MB NocdNoCD for Russian version Russian version 1 MB

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