Railroad Tycoon II

Railroad Tycoon
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon	1990
Railroad Tycoon II	1998
Railroad Tycoon 3	2003
Sid Meier's Railroads!	2006

Railroad Tycoon II is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric building and business game in the Railroad Tycoon series.

General information

Express World - A fan hub for the entire Railroad Tycoon series

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc DRM^{[Note 1]}. See version differences for more info.

GOG.com		Platinum edition.
Steam		Platinum edition. Can only be purchased in USA, Canada, UK, EU countries except Croatia, Brazil, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Vietnam

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

A free demo version is avalable from GameFront.

Version differences

The Gold Edition includes the base game, the Second Century expansion, 15 additional official scenarios, and exclusive HMTL-based strategy guides for all included scenarios and campaigns.

The Windows-exclusive Platinum Edition includes the Gold Edition's non-exclusive content as well as 50 additional levels, the official strategy guide for the base game in PDF format, and 2 hours of additional music.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
The Second Century

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patches available for the game can be found on Patches-Scrolls:

Base game: 1.05b
The Second Century: 1.54, 1.54a (Polish)
Platinum: 1.56

Unofficial patch

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The unofficial 1.57 patch for the game corrects bugs in supply and demand for Railroad Tycoon II Gold and Platinum. Note: The GOG version of the patch is also compatible with Steam.

Dune2K.com thread

OpenGL Wrapper and Patch

Original homepage (archived)

The game renders via OpenGL, supports windowed mode toggle (F4) and can now easily minimize on newer OS.

Includes an optional FPS counter (F1).

When using this wrapper with the GOG version, make sure that all of the compatibility mode settings of RT2_PLAT.EXE are disabled, or the game will be stuck on a black screen at launch.

Game data

In-game general settings.

In-game gameplay settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7620/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\games^{[Note 3]}
Mac OS (Classic)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7620/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Set compatibility mode to Windows XP Service Pack 3 and color mode to 16-bit. Or use Verok's GL Wrapper
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

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				Retail only
German				Retail only
Italian				Retail only
Japanese				Retail only
Polish				Retail only
Brazilian Portuguese				Retail only (CD Expert/PC Gamer).

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	5.0

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System	3.0.0
Cutscenes	Smacker Video Technology

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 133 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	300 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 5 compatible

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Kernel 2.2.x
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium class PowerPC 200 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	200 MB
Video card (GPU)	1024x768 resolution

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]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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>/7620/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (7620) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
↑ 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

↑ 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

[3] 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]

[Proton_path_note-4] 2.0 ^2.1 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>/7620/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (7620) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[gamedir-5] 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).

[1] Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16

[2] Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16

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[Note 3]

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Developers

	PopTop Software
Mac OS (Classic)	Westlake Interactive
Linux	Loki Software
Publishers
Retail	Gathering of Developers
Linux	Loki Software
Digital	2K Games
Engines
	S3D
Release dates
Windows	November 4, 1998
Mac OS (Classic)	September 13, 1999
Linux	October 18, 1999
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Building, Business
Vehicles	Train
Series	Railroad Tycoon