Tropico 2 Pirate Cove is a real-time sim where you play as the Pirate King and your goal is to micro-manage your captives while stealing their booty for yourself. Send them on raids, build ships, construct houses, farms and pubs. Pirates love anarchy, but you have to retain order with a dosage fear so your tyrannical reign can succeed.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Tropico 2 Pirate Cove in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Tropico Pirates. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 18.1 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 2.0
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 2.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 2.0 is installed and you can close this window
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
Click "Install a non-listed program"
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
Name the virtual drive: tropicopirates
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 2.0
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
Click Browse
Select "setup_tropico2_2.1.0.14.exe"
Click Open
Click Next
Click Options
Uncheck "Create desktop icons"
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Click Install
Click OK on all errors
These do not affect the installation or gameplay
Click Exit
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "Tropico2.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: Tropico Pirates
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Tropico Pirates"
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine version: 2.0
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine.
Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
Select Tropico Pirates
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Optimization
Click "Change Settings"
Click Graphics
Adjust:
- Fullscreen
- Setup Videos
- Grid Lines
- Ocean Animation
- Reduced Graphics Shifting
- 3D Mode - Hardware/Software
- Resolution
Click Level of Detail
Adjust:
- Overall
- Shading
- Ground texture
- People
- Buildings
- Trees
- Ships
- Border
Conclusion:
I had no problems running Tropico 2 Pirate Cove in PlayOnLinux. The resolution maxes out at 1600x1200 so I had to adjust my Linux Desktop to match so I could play in fullscreen. Everything else ran perfectly.
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