Difference between revisions of "Tropico 2: Pirate Cove"
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Revision as of 10:33, 29 July 2023
Developers | |
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Frog City Software | |
macOS (OS X) | Westlake Interactive |
Publishers | |
Retail | Gathering of Developers |
Retail (Russia) | 1C Company |
Retail re-release | Sold Out Software |
Digital | Kalypso Media |
macOS (OS X) | MacSoft |
Engines | |
S3D | |
Release dates | |
Windows | April 8, 2003 |
macOS (OS X) | May 19, 2005 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Isometric |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Building |
Themes | Comedy, Piracy |
Series | Tropico |
Tropico | |
---|---|
Tropico | 2001 |
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove | 2003 |
Tropico 3 | 2009 |
Tropico 4 | 2011 |
Tropico 5 | 2014 |
Tropico 6 | 2019 |
Warnings
- The Mac OS X version of this game does not work on Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) or later due to the removal of support for PowerPC apps.
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric building game in the Tropico series.
When running on modern graphics cards, the game crashes when using the hardware renderer unless changed to software or a wrapper is used.
General information
- Official game series site
- Tropico Wiki
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Retail | SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1] | |||
Retail | StarForce 3.04.028.006 DRM[Note 2] (Russia). | |||
Retail | ||||
GamersGate | Tropico Reloaded. | |||
Tropico Reloaded. | ||||
GOG.com | Tropico Reloaded | |||
Green Man Gaming | Tropico Reloaded | |||
Steam | Tropico Reloaded |
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
- A free demo version is available from Archive.org.
Version differences
- Tropico Reloaded is a bundle that contains Tropico, the Paradise Island expansion, and Tropico 2: Pirate Cove.
- The Steam version is missing the 1.2 patch. While it is possible to install the retail patch manually on the Steam version, doing so will also introduce the disc check of the retail copy.
Essential improvements
Patches
- The latest official patch is v1.2.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Tropico2.ini[Note 3] <path-to-game>\Tropico2Safe.ini[Note 3] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33530/pfx/[Note 4] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\Save[Note 3] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33530/pfx/[Note 4] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Widescreen resolution | Game only supports 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Game must be run in 16-bit color mode. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See Borderless fullscreen windowed. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Struggles to get to 60fps with max graphics on a high-end graphics card, but can go past 120 if the settings are all low. |
Borderless fullscreen windowed
- While the game has native borderless fullscreen windowed support, the option is only exposed in an external config file.
Modify config file[7] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | Default windows behavior. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
French | The Steam store page does not advertise it, but is present. | |||
German | The Steam store page does not advertise it, but is present. | |||
Hungarian | Retail only, but available to download | |||
Italian | Retail and GOG.com only. | |||
Polish | Download. | |||
Russian | Retail only, by 1C Company; download for digital releases. | |||
Spanish | Retail and GOG.com only; download for Steam release. |
Issues fixed
Game crashes when map is loaded
- The hardware renderer the game uses by default may crash upon loading maps on modern GPUs or Windows versions XP or higher.
Enable software renderer[7] |
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Use dgVoodoo2[7] |
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Notes
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 7 | Game uses DirectX 7, contrary to system requirements.[7] |
DirectDraw | 7 | |
Software renderer |
Executable | PPC | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | ||||
macOS (OS X) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
---|---|---|
Audio | Miles Sound System | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 500 MHz AMD Athlon 500 MHz |
Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | 256 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.8 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible | 64 MB of VRAM |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.2.8 | |
Processor (CPU) | PowerPC 74xx PowerPC G4 |
|
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | 3D accelerator | |
Other | 4x CD-ROM drive |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail 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]
- ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[3][4][5][6] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 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). - ↑ 4.0 4.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (33530) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Windows Vista support - StarForce Support
- ↑ Windows 7 support - StarForce Support
- ↑ Windows 8.1 support - StarForce Support
- ↑ Windows 10 support - StarForce Support
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Tested by Expack3