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Revision as of 20:12, 13 September 2021

Tropico 2: Pirate Cove
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove cover
Developers
Frog City Software
macOS (OS X) Westlake Interactive
Publishers
Gathering of Developers
Russia 1C Company
Digital Kalypso Media
macOS (OS X) MacSoft
Engines
S3D
Release dates
Windows April 8, 2003
macOS (OS X) May 19, 2005
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Tropico 2: Pirate Cove on MobyGames
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove on Wikipedia
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Warnings

The Mac OS X version of this game does not work on Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) or later due to the removal of support for PowerPC apps.
Tropico
Tropico 2001
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove 2003
Tropico 3 2009
Tropico 4 2011
Tropico 5 2014
Tropico 6 2019

General information

Official game series site
Tropico Wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
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)
 SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 StarForce 3.04.028.006 DRM[Note 2] (Russia).
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Tropico Reloaded
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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 Tropico Reloaded
Windows
Steam
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 Tropico Reloaded
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
Tropico Reloaded is a bundle that contains Tropico, the Paradise Island expansion, and Tropico 2: Pirate Cove.
The Steam version of Tropico 2 is only version 1.1, which means it is missing the many fixes and improvements of the 1.2 patch. It's possible to manually install the patch over the Steam version, but then the game will require a no-cd crack to run.

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Tropico2.ini[Note 3]
<path-to-game>\Tropico2Safe.ini[Note 3]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33520/pfx/[Note 4]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save[Note 3]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33520/pfx/[Note 4]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game general video settings.
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Game only supports 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Game must be run in 16-bit color mode.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Struggles to get to 60fps with max graphics on a high-end graphics card, but can go past 120 if the settings are all low.

Borderless fullscreen windowed

While the game has native borderless fullscreen windowed support, the option is only exposed in an external config file.
Modify config file[7]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Open Tropico2.ini
  3. Find the line containing FullScreen=.
  4. If the line you found does not read FullScreen=0, change it so it does.
  5. Find the line containing Borderless=.
  6. Change the line you found to read Borderless=1.
  7. Save and close the file.

Input

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

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Retail only, but available to download
Italian
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Game crashes when map is loaded

The hardware renderer the game uses by default may crash upon loading maps on modern GPUs or Windows versions XP or higher.
Enable software renderer[7]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Open Tropico2.ini
  3. Find the line containing SoftwareDevice=0.
  4. Change the line you found to read SoftwareDevice=1.
  5. Save and close the file.
Use dgVoodoo2[7]
  1. Download dgVoodoo2.
  2. Open the ZIP file downloaded and copy DDraw.dll and D3Dlmm.dll from the MS folder.
  3. Paste the file into <path-to-game>.

Notes

Requires a GPU capable of DirectX 10.1 or higher and Windows Vista (patched with the DirectX 11 Platform Update) or higher.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7 Game uses DirectX 7, contrary to system requirements.[7]
DirectDraw 7
Software renderer
ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
AMD Athlon 500 MHz		 Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.8 GB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible 		64 MB of VRAM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.2.8
Processor (CPU) PowerPC 74xx
PowerPC G4
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 3D accelerator
Other 4x CD-ROM drive


Notes

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[3][4][5][6] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 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).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 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>/33520/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (33520) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References