The second official patch which updates your game to version number 1.09 has just been released to the game's built-in online updater. The update will be automatically downloaded and applied after launching Tropico 3 if you are connected to the internet and registered with a legit serial number.

Here is a list of the most prominent changes:

English:

- Support for legacy ATI cards (fixes graphics issues on X19x0 and older models)
- Elections and rebel activities persist after regular play time
- Population and road element limits raised
- Music volume reset issue fixed

French:

- Compatibilité améliorée avec les cartes graphiques ATI des générations antérieures (corrige des problèmes graphiques sur les cartes à GPU X19x0 ou plus anciens)
- Même lorsque vous jouez très longtemps, les élections et les activités rebelles persistent.
- Les limites maximales de population et de tronçons routiers ont été relevées.
- Un problème de réinitialisation du volume de la musique a été corrigé.

German:

- Unterstützung für ältere ATI-Karten (behebt Grafikfehler mit X19x0-Serie und älteren Modellen)
- Wahlen und Rebellenaktivitäten bleiben auch nach regulärer Spielzeit bestehen
- Bevölkerungs- und Straßenbaulimit heraufgesetzt
- Reduzierung der Musiklautstärke beim Laden von Spielständen behoben

Spanish:

- Compatibilidad con tarjetas ATI más antiguas (se han corregido los errores gráficos en los modelos X19x0 y anteriores).
- Sigue habiendo elecciones y actividad rebelde después del tiempo de juego habitual.
- Se han aumentado los límites de población y elementos de la carretera.
- Se ha corregido el problema de reinicio del volumen de la música.

Italian:

- Compatibile con schede ATI di modello meno recente (risolve i problemi con schede X19x0 e precedenti).
- Le elezioni e le attività dei ribelli proseguono anche dopo il normale tempo di gioco.
- I limiti di popolazione ed elementi stradali sono stati aumentati.
- Il problema del ripristino del volume della musica è stato risolto.

What about the game lock ups? I haven't been able to determine a ryhme or reason yet for some of the instances in my games. I am avoiding the beach areas as suggested by City Builder, but if this is the case, it is completely bizarre to me that the building I built on the beach that moved 1 pixel of sand into the water would later crash my game 5 years later and no amount of reloading to old saved games would make it go past the point of game freeze.

Is there a direct link for those of us who don't have high speed internet on our gaming systems?

Was this released within the past 7 hours? because before 8 hours I checked on the game and nothing updated. I sure hope it will update the next time I run it.

This is sort of random but is it completely neccesary to have windows 7 for this game.

cmancheese Wrote:This is sort of random but is it completely neccesary to have windows 7 for this game.

No, I run it on XP Home edition SP 3 32-bit, and it runs fine!

I have windows vista and windows xp. ITs an inspiron 1420. do u know if it will work on that

I just got it from within the game... install failed... tried several times before I noticed it was using incorrect path. Be sure to check what path it uses (like I should have) so your update works.

cmancheese Wrote:I have windows vista and windows xp. ITs an inspiron 1420. do u know if it will work on that

I 'm not quite sure, I just looked at the specs, I would say, it should work, but no one can guarantee you that except maybe Kalypso or someone who has exact same laptop. but when I look at the video card, it says it supports directx 10, and it seems a decent one, cpu is good too. OS doesn't matter XP or vista, the game should work on both. On this forum some people got problems with much better cards, but Kalypso issued this new patch that should fix some of these issues.

(10-11-2009 11:07 PM)TropiKim Wrote:  Is there a direct link for those of us who don't have high speed internet on our gaming systems?

/seconded

The updates are all comparably small in size. You should be able to download it with a low bandwidth connection.

Since the in-game updater is part of the copy protection scheme allowing users with verified serial numbers access to this optional content, we do not offer direct downloads of the patch installer.

I bought Tropico 3 on Direct2drive.com, when the patch will be availlable for this version of the game?

All updates have been forwarded to our electronic software distribution partners. If you can't use the in-game updater for the Direct2Drive version, please contact them for assistance.

Mmm, I've just opened tropico 3 and the in-game updater downloaded and installed the patch.

It is strange, because for the 1.04 I had to download the direct2drive patch and no in-game updater was in the game...

Maybe I'm only having an impression, but looks like the in game time had a speed-up, It seems the citizens and cars now move faster...

Sorry, but the elections still break!

I was playing away, am at 2032. At the top of the screen it gave a split of voters. However when I went into the lists etc, it didn't show any candidate support details.

I restared the programme -- the voting split has gone, no signs of an election.

But I cannot call an election! It doesn't say I can't do it yet or anything, the icon is available, I just click it, you hear the noise but nothing happens.

If I can provide any further details, please let me know.

To further clarify: at one point the option to call an early election is crossed out, and it says an election is taking place within the next three months. However it never happens, and then the election button just goes back to its "click but nothing happens" status.

I applied the patch and my ongoing game is freezing partially.
The patch touched the elective procedure and the number of citizen.
When I loaded the patch My game had already had elections and my citizen number was around 780. (I am cheating) I loaded the patch and continued my game. My citizen number when slowly up to 1048. Then when election question occure, and as soon as I choose a type of election the game freeze partially. I get a line about my candidate support beeing about 765 to 35. I can still move the camera but I cant click anything anymore. Watching the process I can see the amount of memory used by the game going up progressively from 600meg to 2gig and more if I dont kill it.
Seems like the ellective procedure has a problem with the new citizen maximum number... I gue[/u]ss I will have to start the game again...

(11-11-2009 04:15 PM)Timo Wrote:  The updates are all comparably small in size. You should be able to download it with a low bandwidth connection.

Since the in-game updater is part of the copy protection scheme allowing users with verified serial numbers access to this optional content, we do not offer direct downloads of the patch installer.

I let the installer do its trick after I went to bed last night. It appears to have taken about two hours to do the combined 1.04/1.09 upgrade. I thought that I would let others with slow connections have some idea about how long it might take them.

Why this patch is not compatible with the Russian version? Game won't update.

The Russian version published by Russobit-M uses a physical copy protection and will require special update treatment by the publisher. Automatic online updates have been deactivated for the Russian version because they're incompatible.