Dgvoodoo2 fix?

[Hurricane Andy392]

Someone has tried Dgvoodoo2 for Tropico? I put DDraw.dll and D3Dlmm.dll on game's directory but is not working very well. The HUD is complety white and i can't see the background on the main menu. I'm using Window 7. Any help?

[Hollenhammer]

I wrote up my method here https://steamcommunity.com/app/33530/discussions/0/2944747978665798180/ See if this works for you. Remember you pick the 32 bit or 64 bit dll files for the game, not your system (the game is 32bit)

[Hurricane Andy392]

I put the 32 bit version dlls but here's what I see:
https://i.postimg.cc/sXb5F7nq/Tropico2.png

My only problem is hardware render. With my RX580 it doesn't work and I was hoping to activate it with Dgvoodoo2.

[Hollenhammer]

This is what mine is configured with https://i.imgur.com/DkYQKOx.png
and https://i.imgur.com/vUw6ZNc.png

[Hurricane Andy392]

Same configuration. If you activate hardware render, the game will crash?

[Hollenhammer]

Just tested. It didn't seem to have any effect on my game when I changed it from software to hardware

[Hurricane Andy392]

With hardware render the shores look better

[Ninta Silverwind]

If anyone else has the issue of a white UI, i followed the instructions on the voodoo site that told me with an AMD graphics card you need to use the dgVoodoo control panel to set the Output API to a Direct3D 12 one instead of 11. This fix it for me. I had completely black and white cutscenes and a white UI before i made this change.
this is mentioned in http://dege.fw.hu/dgVoodoo2/QuickGuide/
under the question "That's all?"

[Hurricane Andy392]

Interesting, but i haven't the Direct3D 12 because i'm running on win 7

[Nikola_PIRATE _Gamer]

Originally posted by Hurricane Andy392:

Interesting, but i haven't the Direct3D 12 because i'm running on win 7

Originally posted by Hollenhammer:

Just tested. It didn't seem to have any effect on my game when I changed it from software to hardware

I have windows 11 and I would like to know if this would work on an MSI claw handle PC with windows 11 home