Vegas: Make It Big

Vegas: Make It Big is a singleplayer free-roaming camera building, business and gambling/casino game.

It was originally released as Vegas Tycoon.

General information

Availability

SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected releases).

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Config.cfg^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/6210/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SavedGames\^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/6210/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Stretched image compared to 4:3. For an unstretched Hor+ image, use the FOV fix.
Multi-monitor		Stretched image compared to 4:3. For an unstretched Hor+ image, use the FOV fix.
Ultra-widescreen		Stretched image compared to 4:3. For an unstretched Hor+ image, use the FOV fix.
4K Ultra HD		Stretched image compared to 4:3. For an unstretched Hor+ image, use the FOV fix.
Field of view (FOV)		Use the FOV fix to set a custom FOV value.
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Game's vsync is broken on modern versions of Windows. Use d3d8to9 or dgVoodoo 2 to address it.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

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

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	FMOD

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 600 MHz
System memory (RAM)	192 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	500 MB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0b compatible

↑ This version of SafeDisc 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]
↑ ^2.0 ^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).
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (6210) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

Developers

	Deep Red Games
Publishers
Europe	Empire Interactive
Digital	Strategy First
Release dates
Windows	October 14, 2003
Reception
Metacritic	76
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Free-roaming camera
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Building, Business, Gambling/casino
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	North America