Tropico

What works

Everything.

What does not

AFAICT, everything works fine.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Nothing

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

It runs silky smooth on 16-bits and even 8-bit textures, and on every possible resolution. It even works perfectly using hardware acceleration instead of software rendering, although the map gets "squary" (i.e., some areas like the coast, which usually has some sand sprinkled over to give the impression of a realistic shore, loses the sprinkled sand and looks perfectly square, like a checkered board).

Installation

Nothing special to mind, simply run
$ WINEPREFIX=/path/to/Tropico/prefix wine /path/to/_setup/Setup.exe

Playing

You should cd into the installation directory, otherwise Tropico might fail with an empty error box. Therefore the invocation looks like (if you installed into the default directory):
$ cd /path/to/Tropico/prefix/drive_c/Program\ files/Troico && WINEPREFIX=/path/to/Tropico/prefix wine Tropico.EXE

No other settings are needed to become El Presidente.

• I haven't experienced #14987 so far when keeping to the how-to.
• The Gold version comes with a PDF of the official strategy guide (English), use it (it's on CD1, CD2 is only needed for installation).
• To stay longer in office in later games, play first the tutorials (the one accessible via »Tutorial« and the ones named »El Presidente's * day« (replace the * by something like first, second, third and so on)), because Tropico can be quite difficult the first time.
• The handbook might be a good (and entertaining, for that matter) reading too.