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Zoo Tycoon
Zoo Tycoon cover
Developers
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
Zoo Tycoon guide on StrategyWiki
Zoo Tycoon on MobyGames
Zoo Tycoon on Wikipedia
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Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Zoo Tycoon
Zoo Tycoon 2001
Zoo Tycoon 2 2004
Zoo Tycoon Friends 2014
Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection 2017

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
 SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]
Windows
Mac OS
macOS (OS X)
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
This game is not available digitally.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Dinosaur Digs
Windows
Mac OS
macOS (OS X)
Marine Mania
Windows
Mac OS
macOS (OS X)

Version differences

Complete Edition contains every expansion pack and comes with a EXTRA expansion pack thats only available in the Complete Colllection .

Essential improvements

Patches

Skip intro videos

Go to <path-to-game> and delete BFLOGO.AVI, BFLOGO.WMV, MSLOGO.AVI, and MSLOGO.WMV

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\zoo.ini[Note 2]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saved Games\[Note 2]
Mac OS (Classic)
Scenario progress is saved in zoo.ini under [scenario]

Video settings

Video and Audio Settings
Video and Audio Settings
Advanced video settings
Advanced video settings
Tooltip settings
Tooltip settings

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Set a custom resolution[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open zoo.ini.
  3. Find the [user] section in the file.
  4. Find the following lines
screenwidth=800
screenheight=600

5. Replace them with desired resolution

High frame rate

Set a custom frame rate limit[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open zoo.ini.
  3. Find the [user] section in the file.
  4. Find the line that begins with DrawRate.
  5. Change the number after the equals sign to the frame rate you want to lock the game at.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Spanish
Swedish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
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 		4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0a compatible
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 9.2.2
Processor (CPU) PowerPC G3
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)

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 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