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Tropico 4

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Tropico 4
Tropico 4 cover
Developers
Haemimont Games
macOS (OS X) Feral Interactive
Publishers
Kalypso Media
OS X Feral Interactive
Release dates
Windows August 26, 2011
macOS (OS X) July 25, 2013
Taxonomy
Monetization DLC
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Building
Themes Comedy, Cold War, Contemporary
Series Tropico
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Tropico 4 on MobyGames
Tropico 4 on Wikipedia
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Tropico 3 2009
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Tropico 5 2014
Tropico 6 2019

General information

Official Website
Kalypso Community Discussions
Kalypso Support Page
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Game launcher, requiring either logging or registering to Kalypso account.
Game launcher, requiring either logging or registering to Kalypso account.
Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Requires online activation
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Developer website
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Collector's Bundle
macOS (OS X)
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Steam Special Edition, Collector's Bundle also available.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Online features have been disabled
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Humble Store
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Steam Special Edition.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Steam Special Edition.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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Gold Edition
macOS (OS X)
Requires a free Kalypso account to play the game on Steam while online. This can be bypased by playing the game in Steam's Offline mode or by blocking the game's executable in the firewall.

Version differences

Steam Special Edition includes Isla Nublar island and Luchador avatar skin.
Collector's Bundle includes Steam Special Edition and all 11 released DLC packs.
Gold Edition includes the base game and Modern Times DLC.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Modern Times Expansion
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Apocalypse DLC
Windows
macOS (OS X)
The Academy DLC
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Propaganda! DLC
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Voodoo DLC
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Vigilante DLC
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Megalopolis DLC
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Pirate Heaven DLC
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Quick-dry Cement DLC
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Plantador DLC
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Junta Military DLC
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/57690/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Tropico 4\users\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/Tropico 4/AppData/users/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/57690/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.
General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Vert-
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Under resolution dropdown menu, freely resizeable window.
Not supported on Windows XP.[1]
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Off, Low or High.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Off, Soft or Sharp.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
In the Visuals options menu.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode
In the Visuals options menu.

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Some keys cannot be remapped (e.g. camera controls).[2]
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound Effect, Voice and Music Volume Sliders
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Korean
Polish
Spanish

Other information

Network settings.
Network settings.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Issues fixed

Will not run on Windows 10 64bit

Edit Windows' hosts file.
  1. Open this with text editor. C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
  2. Add one line: 127.0.0.1 launcher01.kalypsomedia.com

Issues unresolved

Game can crash and lose all progress

[3] Periodic backups may be the only workaround.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3
Processor (CPU) Dual Core 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6600
AMD Radeon X1600-Series
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support
macOS (OS X)
Minimum[4] Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.7.5
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
The following cards require 8 GB RAM: Intel HD Graphics 3000/4000, Nvidia GeForce 9400 GT and GeForce GT 320M.
The following graphics cards are not supported: ATI Radeon X1xxx/HD 2xxx series, Intel GMA series, Nvidia GeForce 7xxx/8xxx series.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/57690/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (57690) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References