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Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004)

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Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sid Meier's Pirates! cover
Developers
Firaxis Games
macOS (OS X) Robosoft Technologies
Publishers
Atari
2K Games
OS X Feral Interactive
Engines
Gamebryo
Release dates
Windows November 22, 2004
macOS (OS X) August 29, 2008
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Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004) guide on StrategyWiki
Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004) on Wikipedia
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Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
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For the original game, see Sid Meier's Pirates!.

Key points

Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS.[1]

General information

Official website
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
 SecuROM DRM disc check.
Windows
Publisher website
CD key
Requires online activation
Can only be used x times		 Five machines limit.
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Mac App Store
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macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Assets\Bink
  2. Delete or rename firaxis_logo.bik and Logos.bik

Patches

1.02 patch is the latest version.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Pirates!\Config.ini
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3920/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Pirates!\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3920/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video Settings.
Video Settings.

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Windowed

Set in Config.ini[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Config.ini.
  3. Go to the bottom of the file.
  4. Add the line fullscreen = 0
  5. Save your changes.

Notes

In some cases, this may cause strange issues with the mouse in menus, such as having to click to the lower right of a button for it to activate.

Input settings

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Audio settings

Audio Settings.
Audio Settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Italian
Retail version, download.
Spanish
Retail version, download.

Issues fixed

Severe performance issues

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.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.2 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0b compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.5 10.6
Processor (CPU) PowerPC 1.4 GHz
Intel 1.4 GHz		 PowerPC 2.0 GHz
Intel 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.4 GHz
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM 128 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/3920/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (3920) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References