Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004)

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Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004)
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Developers
Publishers
 
Engines
Release dates
Windows
November 22, 2004
OS X
August 29, 2008
Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004) at Steam Charts
Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004) at SteamDB
 Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004) at Wikipedia


Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sid Meier's Pirates! 1987
Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004) 2004

For the original game, see Sid Meier's Pirates!.

General information

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Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
Steam Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg
Retail Disc checkCD/DVD key (no activation) DRM: SecuROM disc check.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Pirates!\Config.ini
OS X

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Pirates!
OS X

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Impossible

Video settings[edit]

Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution Impossible False icon.svg
Multi-monitor Impossible False icon.svg
Ultra-widescreen Impossible WSGF Incomplete.svg
4K Ultra HD Impossible WSGF Incomplete.svg
Field of view (FOV) Unknown
Windowed Hackable See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed Unknown
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Unknown
Anti-aliasing (AA) Unknown
Vertical sync (Vsync) Unknown
High frame rate Unknown

Windowed[edit]

Fix Set in Config.ini

  1. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Pirates!\Config.ini
  2. Go to the bottom of the file.
  3. Add the line fullscreen = 0
  4. Save your changes.

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Unknown
Mouse acceleration Unknown
Mouse input in menus Unknown
Mouse Y-axis inversion Unknown
Controller
Controller support Unknown

Audio settings[edit]

Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native
Surround sound Unknown
Subtitles Unknown
Closed captions Unknown
Mute on focus lost Native

Issues fixed[edit]

Severe performance issues[edit]

This issue has been present since release. Although the 2005 1.02 patch addressed many issues, some users (especially those with high spec, modern systems) still experience low frame rates, with currently no available solution.

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Pentium 1.0 GHz Pentium 1.0 GHz or higher
System memory (RAM)
256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
1.2 GB
Video card (GPU)
64 MB video card

References