Zoo Tycoon
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Developers | |
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Blue Fang Games | |
Mac OS (Classic) | Westlake Interactive |
macOS (OS X) | Westlake Interactive |
Publishers | |
Microsoft Game Studios | |
Mac OS, macOS (OS X) | Aspyr Media |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 17, 2001 |
Mac OS (Classic) | July 21, 2003 |
macOS (OS X) | July 21, 2003 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 68 |
IGDB | 68 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, Expansion pack |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Isometric |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Building, Educational, Simulation |
Themes | Contemporary |
Series | Zoo Tycoon |
Zoo Tycoon | |
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Zoo Tycoon | 2001 |
Zoo Tycoon 2 | 2004 |
Zoo Tycoon Friends | 2014 |
Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection | 2017 |
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Zoo Tycoon is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric building, educational and simulation game in the Zoo Tycoon series.
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- Free demos are available from Archive.org: original, expansions.
Version differences
- The Complete Collection contains both retail expansion packs and the exclusive Endangered Species expansion pack unavailable separately.
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Dinosaur Digs | ||
Marine Mania | Includes the content of Dinosaur Digs. | |
Endangered Species | Exclusive to the Complete Collection. |
Essential improvements
Patches
Skip intro videos
Delete or rename video files |
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Edit configuration file |
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[UI] playMovie=0 playSecondMovie=0 |
Zookini Launcher
- A fanmade launcher that modifies the .ini with options not available in game such as higher screen resolutions, smoother graphics, amount of startup cash, and more.
- Unstable, doesn't always apply settings and an account is required to download.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\zoo.ini[Note 2] |
Mac OS (Classic) |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Saved Games\[Note 2] |
Mac OS (Classic) |
- Scenario progress is saved in
zoo.ini
under[scenario]
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | See Widescreen resolution. Higher resolutions result in a smaller HUD. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Alt+↵ Enter toggles. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | See High frame rate. |
Widescreen resolution
Set a custom resolution[3] |
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screenwidth=800 screenheight=600 5. Replace them with desired resolution |
High frame rate
Set a custom frame rate limit[citation needed] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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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 |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Main volume and menu music | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | No speech. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Swedish |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Software renderer | Uses GDI |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||||
macOS (OS X) | |||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98, ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium MMX 233 MHz | Intel Pentium II 300 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | 128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 250 MB | 1.4 GB |
Video card (GPU) | 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.0a compatible |
Mac OS | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 9.2 | |
Processor (CPU) | PowerPC G3 233 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 600 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.1 | |
Processor (CPU) | PowerPC G3 233 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 600 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM |
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 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
- ↑ Verified by User:Blackbird on 2017-10-20
- 1080p works perfectly.Image