Tropico 3
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Developers | |
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Haemimont Games | |
macOS (OS X) | Feral Interactive |
Publishers | |
Windows | Kalypso Media |
OS X | Feral Interactive |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 20, 2009 |
macOS (OS X) | January 27, 2012 |
Tropico | |
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Tropico | 2001 |
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove | 2003 |
Tropico 3 | 2009 |
Tropico 4 | 2011 |
Tropico 5 | 2014 |
Tropico 6 | 2019 |
General information
- Official forums
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SecuROM 7 DRM. | |||
Developer website | Gold Edition. Five machines limit. | |||
Amazon.com | ||||
Steam Special Edition, Gold Edition also available. | ||||
GOG.com | Gold Edition. | |||
Green Man Gaming | Gold Edition. | |||
Mac App Store | Gold Edition. | |||
Steam | Steam Special Edition. |
- Download mirrors for the (Windows-only) demo is available at the official site.
- In game requires a special key to enable the game which Steam provide it
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\config.lua[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/23490/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %APPDATA%\Tropico 3\Saves |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/23490/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video settings
Windowed
Download Decompress Config[citation needed] |
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Input settings
Controller support
Download Decompress Config[citation needed] |
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Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
German | ||||
French | ||||
Italian | ||||
Spanish |
Issues fixed
Windows Vista/Windows 7 multi-monitor crash
- There are 3 ways to fix this crash.[1]
Disable Aero, 2nd monitor or enable windowed[citation needed] |
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- It is possible that your game configuration got corrupted by a system-crash.
Delete settings folder[2] |
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Please delete the Notes
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"You need a supported DX9-compatible video card"
Delete Userconfig2.lua[3] |
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Notes
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Run the game in Windowed mode[4] |
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If the previous fix didn't work, run Tropico 3 in Windowed mode. Notes
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VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction. Note:Game is quite unstable on some systems. |
Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP | |
Processor (CPU) | 2 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 1 GB | 2 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 5 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible | 512 MB of VRAM |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10.6.8 | 10.7.2 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel 2.0 GHz | Intel 3.0 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 2 GB | 4 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 7 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 256 MB of VRAM | 512 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 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). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 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 (23490) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.