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Tropico 5 For Mac/SteamOS Now Available

19 September, 2014 - [sH[!]Ne]

Tropico 5 For Mac/SteamOS Now Available

App Store and Mac/SteamOS users can enjoy cross-platform multiplayer with all Tropico players

This just in from the Tropican Department of Information: Tropico 5 is now available for Mac & SteamOS via Steam! Starting today, Mac & SteamOS users can now visit the island paradise of Tropico in the award-winning dictator simulation Tropico 5. Embrace your inner dictator and begin your dynastic rule as El Presidente, carefully plotting, coercing and glad-handing your way to complete control of the Tropican isle, all while laying the framework of continued rule through the Eras with the all-new Dynasty System. Take a break from the everyday rigours of dictatorship to increase your wealth and influence by building farms, rigging elections, or dabbling in international trade. While the despotic possibilities are endless, so is the humour in the fifth instalment of the Tropico series.

The Mac/SteamOS Steam versions feature cross-platform multiplayer via SteamPlay, as well as Full Controller and Big Picture Mode support. Plus, if you've already bought Tropico 5 on Windows for Steam, then you can download the Mac/SteamOS edition for absolutely free via Steam cross-buy! For console players, Tropico 5 will be available for the Xbox 360® this November, and the PlayStation®4 version will be coming in early 2015.

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18 Comments

El Boletaire 14 Oct, 2014 @ 6:33am

Can I ask how have you replaced DirectX? Are you guys using OpenGL now? If so, what are the minimum requirements now that there's no DirectX?

[sH[!]Ne] 30 Sep, 2014 @ 6:44am

We've fixed the issues with AMD based Linux systems.
If anyone still has problems please report back here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/245620/discussions/0/558755530352966857/

Roger Korby 29 Sep, 2014 @ 4:41pm

Everything Is working perfect for me here on Linux Mint x64 with 360 control.

Thanks Developers

reliable_dog 24 Sep, 2014 @ 8:04am

Running on linux just black screen, waiting sometime and can see yellow cursor.
Latino music is playing.
log:
http://pastebin.com/6gTT2QDi

May be important, opensource radeon driver is used.

Segata Sanshiro 23 Sep, 2014 @ 2:25pm

You did a great job with the Linux port! A few minor graphical bugs here and there, but that's expected such a short time after release, trest is flawless. Thanks :)

21 Sep, 2014 @ 7:23am

@vjaka - yeah, my solution was only for nvidia. But thanks for yours, i tried to see if it would run on an intel only laptop of mine, but i gave up and went back to the first laptop. I'll try your solution later

ty :)

Vjaka 21 Sep, 2014 @ 1:44am

@okster, your solution did not work, maybe because I have Intel video card. However, as suggested in forums, setting command line to :

MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.0 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=400 %command%

resolved the problem

20 Sep, 2014 @ 11:21pm

update to my previous post - after doing that it also works from steam menu after i put this into Tropico -> Properties -> Set Launch Options:

LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 optirun -b primus %command%

which is pretty much my goto launch command for games that need to use my nvidia card

20 Sep, 2014 @ 11:13pm

I was having the black screen problem too. This is on my laptop running mint 15 with nvidia optimus.

I got it to run from the command line like so:

cd $HOME/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Tropico\ 5
ln -s /home/oki/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 .
echo 245620 > steam_appid.txt (not sure if this is necessary)
optirun -b primus ./Tropico5 (if you have optimus otherwise just ./Tropico5)

got as far as the end of the first tutorial then stopped so i could write this :)

Roger Korby 20 Sep, 2014 @ 9:58pm

Does not work on Linux with my AMD CPU because of no SSSE3 support. Waiting for devs to address this.

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