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Tropico 2: Pirate Cove

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Tropico 2: Pirate Cove
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove cover
Developers
Frog City Software
Publishers
Gathering of Developers
Russia 1C Company
Engines
S3D
Release dates
Windows April 21, 2001
Mac OS (Classic) 2001
macOS (OS X) 2001
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove on Wikipedia

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 v3.04.028.006 - Russia DRM
Windows
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Tropico Reloaded
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).
Tropico Reloaded is a bundle that contains Tropico, the Paradise Island expansion, and Tropico 2: Pirate Cove.

Game data

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

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33520/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33520/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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

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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[3]
  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 settings

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Audio settings

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

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
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[3]
  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[3]
  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.[3]
DirectDraw 7
Software renderer
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
AMD Athlon 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.8 GB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible

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. 2.0 2.1 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