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Tropico seriesNew to Trópico (1), trying to configure it.(12 posts)(12 posts)
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Posted August 13, 2013
There is any way to make the game run with hardware acceleration? I have a "new" computer with fancy graphics card and all that stuff but it seems that the game is not detecting it.

Also, which is the maximum resolution the game supports? I am having trouble finding the configuration menu, pressing random keys once I get ingame. Any ideas?
Post edited August 13, 2013 by Neurus_Ex
Posted August 14, 2013
I am having trouble finding the configuration menu, pressing random keys once I get ingame. Any ideas?
Unfortunately, the menu is not accessible via hot-key.
In the lower right of the screen, at the lower left of the round viewport, there is a button with a book on it. That will open the game-menu, accessing load and save, the almanac and the game-settings.
Posted August 14, 2013
I see, what a crappy config method xD

The windowed mode seems to work fine in big monitors. Any way to make the game recognize that I have a graphic card pr any way to run the game fine in modern systems?
Posted August 16, 2013
Gonna do a shameless double post:

a) I'm still looking for any way to enable 3D rendering on my brand new computer. Seems it has something to do with Direct X7, but all google searchs leads to the sequels :(

b) Also, any way to save the configuration? I'm trying to play at 1280x1024, windowed, but the game doesn't seem to want to remember the configuration. Some help?
Posted August 17, 2013
I'm still looking for any way to enable 3D rendering on my brand new computer. Seems it has something to do with Direct X7, but all google searchs leads to the sequels :(
I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish. Tropico1 doesn't use a real 3d-engine. Most graphics are pre-rendered sprites, so there isn't much that can be improved by hardware rendering. There is one option to enable hardware rendering in the settings, i take you already have activated it?
Aside from that there probably isn't much you can do. Apart from taking a look at Tropico 3, which is indeed fully 3D.
Posted August 18, 2013
An image is worth million words, so here you got a screenshot.

I don't know why the game don't recognize the graphic card (Maybe too modern). Seems some kind of compatibility problem with Direct X, but the error message does not help at all :(
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Post edited August 18, 2013 by Neurus_Ex
Posted September 07, 2013
The only difference I've noticed between hardware/software and old/new machines is the sea and waves lapping on the shore. Haven't worked out how to get it on my newer PCs (XP and Win 7) which makes me suspect its a driver issue and/or DXn and I really don't think its worth the effort to regress the machine back 10 years (or whenever it was released)
Posted December 14, 2013
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Standup: The only difference I've noticed between hardware/software and old/new machines is the sea and waves lapping on the shore. Haven't worked out how to get it on my newer PCs (XP and Win 7) which makes me suspect its a driver issue and/or DXn and I really don't think its worth the effort to regress the machine back 10 years (or whenever it was released)
hey men
did you tried the ddraw wrapper?
Posted December 14, 2013
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Standup: The only difference I've noticed between hardware/software and old/new machines is the sea and waves lapping on the shore. Haven't worked out how to get it on my newer PCs (XP and Win 7) which makes me suspect its a driver issue and/or DXn and I really don't think its worth the effort to regress the machine back 10 years (or whenever it was released)
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mirh: hey men
did you tried the ddraw wrapper?
I haven't but worth a look as would be nice to see the waves again....
Posted January 18, 2014
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Neurus_Ex: An image is worth million words, so here you got a screenshot.

I don't know why the game don't recognize the graphic card (Maybe too modern). Seems some kind of compatibility problem with Direct X, but the error message does not help at all :(
Tropico is a 2D game at heart, and it is not improved at all with "3D hardware acceleration", especially on new computers. This is not sour grapes, because I could not get 3D acceleration to work either, but because it isn't needed.

If you manage to activate 3D acceleration, it will look more or less the same*, but with some processing load put on the GPU - something you simply do not need on a PC made after 2008.

In other words, don't worry about the 3D acceleration, it's nothing in this game. I don't even run it even though it seems to be possible on my rig.

See my experience with this issue of using 3D acceleration in Tropico:
http://www.gog.com/forum/tropico_series/tropico_2_crashes_when_i_start_a_new_game_windows_8

In the end I gave up on trying to get this to work, and the few 3D effects that I am missing don't affect the game at all anyway. At least the game works.

*when I say "same" I mean there may be some details that are different, perhaps better, but nothing that will blow your mind
Post edited January 18, 2014 by Atlantico
Posted January 19, 2014
For some reason I didn't saw the answers D:

@mirh: Just tried it and didn't work. I did what the readme says (drop it with the config file in the exe folder).
I've left the original configuration as is and the same error message appears again.

@Atlantico: Thanks, but that wasn't what I was asking. I don't want to sound too rude, but the question was about being able to run it, not about the feature not adding too much content to the game.
Yeah, I know the game is 2D, thus "not needing" 3D Hardware acceleration (something that is kind of relative, but we can move on on this), but given there are special effects which need 3DHw, well, I want to be able to make my graphic card run them.

Is about being able to run the game "as it is supposed to run" in a modern computer and not having to mess with configs, external dll's and other crap stuff. Something that, to be honest, I've found way too many times with old games in gog.com: They run, yeah, but there isn't *any* kind of support to make it "run it fine" (Shadow Warrior, Alien Breed, Operation Flashpoint, this game)... there's always "something" that does not work, and no one has being able to make it work, and not a single warning: "Tropico's 3D HW mode does not work in modern computers", for instance.
Whatever, I just got angry :(
Posted January 24, 2014
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Neurus_Ex: For some reason I didn't saw the answers D:

@mirh: Just tried it and didn't work. I did what the readme says (drop it with the config file in the exe folder).
I've left the original configuration as is and the same error message appears again.

@Atlantico: Thanks, but that wasn't what I was asking. I don't want to sound too rude, but the question was about being able to run it, not about the feature not adding too much content to the game.
Yeah, I know the game is 2D, thus "not needing" 3D Hardware acceleration (something that is kind of relative, but we can move on on this), but given there are special effects which need 3DHw, well, I want to be able to make my graphic card run them.

Is about being able to run the game "as it is supposed to run" in a modern computer and not having to mess with configs, external dll's and other crap stuff. Something that, to be honest, I've found way too many times with old games in gog.com: They run, yeah, but there isn't *any* kind of support to make it "run it fine" (Shadow Warrior, Alien Breed, Operation Flashpoint, this game)... there's always "something" that does not work, and no one has being able to make it work, and not a single warning: "Tropico's 3D HW mode does not work in modern computers", for instance.
Whatever, I just got angry :(
I was just trying to put it mildly, but here, I'll do it bluntly.

There is no 3D in this game. At. All.

Got it? None. 100% 2D.

There are no fancy 3D effects. None.

3D acceleration was used to assist the computers of ten years ago to run this smoothly.

Not meaning to sound rude, of course.
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