#Tropico 3 gold edition windows 8#

You can now adjust the resolution and such in the in-game menu, and everything should work fine - at least it is for me. Now run the game again.this should work again, and be in fullscreen.ĩ. Change 'config.IsFullscreen' back to 1, while will make the game start in fullscreen.Ĩ. Run the game.this SHOULD work, but will be windowed.ħ. Save the changes, then close the Decompression tool and the config file.ĥ. Change 'config.IsFullscreen = 1' to 'config.IsFullscreen = 0' (without the quotation marks, of course)), which will make the game start in windowed mode.Ĥ.

Follow the 'Basic Usage' instructions there to open the decompressed config file in Notepad.ģ.

#Tropico 3 gold edition windows 8#

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:Ģ. 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. 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. 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.