TROPICO 4 MANUAL UPGRADE
Your U-Play account will show 2 separate entries for the game, but launching your original Steam version will launch the game with the Standard edition stuff enabled.įinally, purchasing the operators directly with R6 credits appears to be the officially supported solution, although the community seems split on whether this is a good cost/benefit tradeoff when compared to the above options:Ĭan I easily upgrade to the Standard Edition? This Reddit Thread seems to concur with your solution, however another potential solution is to Purchase the Standard edition through U-Play.
TROPICO 4 MANUAL HOW TO
See this answer for instructions on how to remove the game from your Steam account.Īs to whether or not this is the correct way to go to 'upgrade' your account is up to you, but I thought it worth mentioning that there are other options. The Standard and Starter editions of the game are listed under the same Store Page entry, they have the same App ID, so you should be able to do this without having to uninstall/reinstall the game files, although you should take a backup of the game folder under steamapps first, just in case.
To directly answer your question: Removing the game from your account and repurchasing the Standard edition should pick up the installed game files correctly. I just read up on the background on this, and wow, what a weird quirk of game versioning.
This method is all manual, but I believe it answers your question.
TROPICO 4 MANUAL INSTALL
I haven't researched on all possible locations, but "0" indicates that the file is located in a folder named "remote" in the same folder as the index file, "1" indicates the game's install folder (which you can get to with the "browse local files" option from steam), and "2" indicates your documents folder in Windows.Īll you then need to do is go find the files specified by the index files :). It will be located in a folder specified by the "root" setting. Here is an example of the save file sync settings for my Torchlight game: Understanding the Steam Cloud index files
Īpplication ID: You can find this by looking at the URL of the game's page on the Steam store, or use a service like (you could also do reverse lookups by searching for the appid there). Steam ID: If you only ever logged into one Steam account, you will only have one folder in the userdata folder which corresponds to your Steam ID. You might have placed it elsewhere when you installed Steam. Steam install folder: Defaults to "C:\Program Files\Steam" on Windows. It is easy to understand by opening it in a text editor. It also maintains an index file over the files being synced. All it requires is that you download the games through Steam.Īfter a game is downloaded, Steam will by default sync data from the Steam cloud to your computer.
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