Tropico 4
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| Developers | |
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| Haemimont Games | |
| macOS (OS X) | Feral Interactive |
| Publishers | |
| Kalypso Media | |
| OS X | Feral Interactive |
| Engines | |
| Sol | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | August 26, 2011 |
| macOS (OS X) | July 25, 2013 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase, DLC |
| Microtransactions | None |
| 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 | |
|---|---|
| Tropico | 2001 |
| Tropico 2: Pirate Cove | 2003 |
| Tropico 3 | 2009 |
| Tropico 4 | 2011 |
| Tropico 5 | 2014 |
| Tropico 6 | 2019 |
Tropico 4 is a singleplayer bird's-eye view building game in the Tropico series.
General information
- 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.
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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| Retail | |
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| Developer website | |
Collector's Bundle | |
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| GamersGate | |
Steam Special Edition. Collector's Bundle also available. | |
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Steam Special Edition. Collector's Bundle also available. | |
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| GOG.com | |
Online features have been disabled | |
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| Humble Store | |
Steam Special Edition. | |
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| Steam | |
Steam Special Edition. | |
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| Mac App Store (unavailable) | |
Gold Edition | |
- Requires a free Kalypso account to play the game on Steam while online. This can be bypassed by playing the game in Steam's offline mode or by blocking the game's executable in the firewall.[citation needed]
Version differences
- The Steam Special Edition includes Isla Nublar island and Luchador avatar skin.
- The Collector's Bundle includes Steam Special Edition and all 11 released DLC packs.
- The Gold Edition includes the base game and Modern Times DLC.
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
| Name | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Modern Times | Expansion | |
| Apocalypse | DLC | |
| The Academy | DLC | |
| Propaganda! | DLC | |
| Voodoo | DLC | |
| Vigilante | DLC | |
| Megalopolis | DLC | |
| Pirate Heaven | DLC | |
| Quick-dry Cement | DLC | |
| Plantador | DLC | |
| Junta Military | DLC | |
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.
| 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] |
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| 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.
| 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 |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | Sound Effect, Voice and Music Volume Sliders | |
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Italian | ||||
| Korean | ||||
| Polish | ||||
| Spanish |
Other information
Network settings.
VR support
| 3D modes | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| vorpX | G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction. |
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Issues unresolved
Game can crash and lose all progress
- Periodic backups may be the only workaround.[3]
Issues fixed
Game fails to launch from the Kalypso launcher
| Block connection to deprecated server[4] |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| Direct3D | 9.0c | |
| Shader Model support | 3.0 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows | |||
| macOS (OS X) |
Middleware
| Middleware | Notes | |
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| Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | XP SP3 | 7 |
| Processor (CPU) | Dual Core 2.0 GHz | Quad Core 2.0 GHz |
| System memory (RAM) | 1 GB | 2 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 |
Nvidia GeForce 8800 AMD Radeon HD4000-Series 512 MB of VRAM Shader model 3.0 support |
| macOS (OS X) | ||
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| Minimum[5] | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 10.7.5 | 10.8.4 |
| Processor (CPU) | 2 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 6 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | 256 MB of VRAM | 512 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
- ↑ 1.0 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
- ↑ Kalypso Media forums - post by Haemimont Games employee - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Reddit - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Tropico 4 Crash and lost EVERYTHING! :: Steam Community Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Will not run on Windows 10 64bit :: Tropico 4 General Discussions - last accessed on 2023-07-29
- ↑ feralinteractive.com - last accessed on May 2023