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==Issues unresolved==
 
==Issues unresolved==

Revision as of 03:31, 27 April 2018

Monopoly Tycoon
Monopoly Tycoon cover
Developers
Deep Red Games
Publishers
Infogrames
Release dates
Windows September 30, 2001
Monopoly Tycoon guide on StrategyWiki
Monopoly Tycoon on Wikipedia
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Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
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Key points

Has problems running on Windows XP + and above. See "Game crashes on startup" and "Issues unresolved".

General information

MobyGames entry

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.4 is the latest patch available for the game, it adds new scenarios, options, and bug fixes.

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.
External advanced settings.
External advanced settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\profiles[Note 1]

Video settings

External video/audio settings.
External video/audio settings.
In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Modifying the config.cfg file[citation needed]
  1. Go to the game installation folder.
  2. Open config.cfg with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Change the lines with SysSetup width and SysSetup height to the width and height the game should run in (ex. SysSetup width 1680 and SysSetup height 1050 will run the game in 1680x1050 resolution).
  4. Save the file.
  5. Launch the game.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
6
Online play
6 GameSpy services have been shut down;[1] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 2310
UDP 2310
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
This is the default port used. It can be changed by the user via console commands. Full details can be found in the Patch v1.4 Readme file

Issues fixed

Game crashes on startup

{{Fixbox|description=Disable music in the game launcher|ref=[citation needed]|fix=

  1. Launch Monopoly Tycoon
  2. Go to "Configuration".
  3. Tick the "No Music" box.
  4. Click "Play"

Notes

When the game crashes, it is spitting out an access violation error (0x000005)

Issues unresolved

Music skipping/looping issues on Windows XP

Disabling audio hardware acceleration in Windows XP makes the game have issues playing music.
Bug: Sometimes the music cuts out suddenly and the game is left with only sounds, even when hardware acceleration is enabled.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 95, 98, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233 MHz Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 90 MB 200 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0a compatible 		16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0a compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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).

References