Hi guys,

I'm having an issue with Tropico 3. It installed fine, patched itself up to 1.13 and ran fine. I saved a game and then quit. I tried to start it again but it said that Tropico 3 had stopped working. Now I found out that to get it working again, I had to go into C:/Users/MyUserName/AppData/Roaming and delete the 'Tropico 3' folder. If I did that then it would start fine every time, but obviously it would ask me for my keycode again, and all my settings and saved games would be lost.

I have UAC turned off completely. I tried to run Tropico 3 in compatibility mode for other Windows versions, but that didn't work.

System:

Q9650 3.6GHz
4GB 1066 RAM
500GB + 1TB HDD
1GB GTX 280
Windows 7 64bit

(14-04-2010 08:05 PM)Koosey87 Wrote:  Hi guys,

I'm having an issue with Tropico 3. It installed fine, patched itself up to 1.13 and ran fine. I saved a game and then quit. I tried to start it again but it said that Tropico 3 had stopped working. Now I found out that to get it working again, I had to go into C:/Users/MyUserName/AppData/Roaming and delete the 'Tropico 3' folder. If I did that then it would start fine every time, but obviously it would ask me for my keycode again, and all my settings and saved games would be lost.

I have UAC turned off completely. I tried to run Tropico 3 in compatibility mode for other Windows versions, but that didn't work.

System:

Q9650 3.6GHz
4GB 1066 RAM
500GB + 1TB HDD
1GB GTX 280
Windows 7 64bit

I figured out what the problem was. The game will crash on startup if the refresh rate of the screen is not set at the same refresh rate as specified in the game. I play on a 32" TV and I forgot that the refresh rate was 50Hz, and I specified 60Hz in-game. Deleting the Tropico 3 folder and setting my screen refresh rate to 60Hz, and setting 60Hz in-game solved the problem.

I also came across a problem that the game will crash after updating/changing video card drivers. This warranted another deletion of the Tropico 3 folder. But now it's working fine.