Key points
- Railroad Tycoon II (GL Wrapper & Patch)
General information
- Official developer site
- Official Linux developer site
- Official Linux game site
- 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
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
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Railroad Tycoon 2: The Second Century |
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Version differences
- Railroad Tycoon II: Gold Edition includes the base game, its expansion, 15 additional official scenarios, and exclusive HMTL-based strategy guides for all included scenarios and campaigns.
- Railroad Tycoon II: Platinum 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.
- Railroad Tycoon II: Platinum is Windows-only, whereas all previous versions of the game were also released separately for Mac OS and Linux.
Essential improvements
In-game general settings.
Patches
All patches available for the game can be found here.
- Game renders via OpenGL and can now easily minimize on new OS.
Game data
In-game gameplay settings.
Configuration file(s) location
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
Video settings
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Input settings
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Audio settings
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Network
Multiplayer types
Other information
API
Executable | PPC | 16-bit |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
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System requirements
Windows | Mac OS (Classic) | Linux |
Windows |
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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 |
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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 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- ↑ 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