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Sid Meier's Railroads!

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Sid Meier's Railroads!
Sid Meier's Railroads! cover
Developers
Firaxis Games
macOS (OS X) Feral Interactive
Publishers
2K Games
Re-release Sold Out Software
OS X Feral Interactive
Engines
Gamebryo
Release dates
Windows October 17, 2006
macOS (OS X) November 1, 2012
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Building, Business
Vehicles Train
Series Railroad Tycoon
Sid Meier's Railroads! on HowLongToBeat
Sid Meier's Railroads! on MobyGames
Sid Meier's Railroads! on Wikipedia
Railroad Tycoon
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon 1990
Railroad Tycoon II 1998
Railroad Tycoon 3 2003
Sid Meier's Railroads! 2006

Warnings

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

Sid Meier's Railroads! is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view building and business game in the Railroad Tycoon series.

General information

2K Support page
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)
SecuROM 7 DRM.
Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Requires online activation
CD key
Retail release sold by Feral.
macOS (OS X)
Developer website
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macOS (OS X)
GamersGate
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Humble Store
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac App Store
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macOS (OS X)
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
[1]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
Requires online activation
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.1 is the latest patch available for the game.

Large Address Aware

Improves stability on systems with at least 3GB RAM by allowing the application to use more than 2GB RAM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Railroads!\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Containers/com.feralinteractive/Data/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/Sid Meier's Railroads!/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7600/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Railroads!\Saves
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Containers/com.feralinteractive/Data/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/Sid Meier's Railroads!/Saves/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7600/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

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
See Multi-monitor.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Multi-monitor

Set resolution[2]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Settings.ini
  3. Change the WindowWidth and WindowHeight values to match your resolution.
  4. Change FullScreen = 1 to FullScreen = 0
  5. Save your changes.

Input

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game general control settings.
In-game general control settings.

Audio

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

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
German
Italian
Japanese
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
4 Versus
Online play
4 Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[3] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Issues fixed

Low memory crash

The game executable has a hard-coded memory limit of 1 GB, causing it to crash in larger maps.
Download this executable and replace the RailRoads.exe file in the installation folder.[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Metal support
macOS >= 10.14 only
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
[4]

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Interface Scaleform
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.7 GB
Video card (GPU) Video card with hardware pixel and vertex shaders (GeForce 3, Radeon 8500 or better)
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.14
Processor (CPU) 1.1 GHz Intel Core M
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 512 Mb Nvidia 640M, 1.5GB Intel HD 5300 or 2GB AMD M290
512 MB of VRAM

Note: Users with macOS versions prior to 10.14 can select the branch mac_retail_111 - macOS 10.13.6 or older only from the Beta tab on Steam. This enables the game to run with the legacy OpenGL backend on macOS >= 10.12.4.


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>/7600/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (7600) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References