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

Click Next


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 Next


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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