Posted June 16, 2014
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Many of us, including myself, have been having issues starting Tropico 3 on Windows 7 and Windows 8, as well as it throwing a "chipset not compatible with DX9" error. There have been a few suggestions posted here, but none of them worked for me, and it seems that they haven't worked for most other people posting.
I played around with it a bit on my Windows 8 computer, and got the feeling that it had something to do with fullscreen mode. Well, I guess it did. Instead of going into more detail, I'll just go through the exact steps that have worked for me on both a Windows 8 computer and a Windows 7 computer:
1. Download this: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tropico-3-decompress-config.119569/
2. Follow the "Basic Usage" instructions there to open the decompressed config file in Notepad.
3. Change "config.IsFullscreen = 1" to "config.IsFullscreen = 0" (without the quotation marks, of course)), which will make the game start in windowed mode.
4. Save the changes, then close the Decompression tool and the config file.
5. Run the game...this SHOULD work, but will be windowed.
6. Now, repeat step 2.
7. Change "config.IsFullscreen" back to 1, while will make the game start in fullscreen.
8. Now run the game again...this should work again, and be in fullscreen.
9. You can now adjust the resolution and such in the in-game menu, and everything should work fine -- at least it is for me.
So, for whatever reason, starting the game in windowed mode once allows it to work in fullscreen mode.
Hopefully this helps!
I played around with it a bit on my Windows 8 computer, and got the feeling that it had something to do with fullscreen mode. Well, I guess it did. Instead of going into more detail, I'll just go through the exact steps that have worked for me on both a Windows 8 computer and a Windows 7 computer:
1. Download this: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tropico-3-decompress-config.119569/
2. Follow the "Basic Usage" instructions there to open the decompressed config file in Notepad.
3. Change "config.IsFullscreen = 1" to "config.IsFullscreen = 0" (without the quotation marks, of course)), which will make the game start in windowed mode.
4. Save the changes, then close the Decompression tool and the config file.
5. Run the game...this SHOULD work, but will be windowed.
6. Now, repeat step 2.
7. Change "config.IsFullscreen" back to 1, while will make the game start in fullscreen.
8. Now run the game again...this should work again, and be in fullscreen.
9. You can now adjust the resolution and such in the in-game menu, and everything should work fine -- at least it is for me.
So, for whatever reason, starting the game in windowed mode once allows it to work in fullscreen mode.
Hopefully this helps!
