Installation

From OpenTTD

Installation can be a little complicated, as a licensed copy of Transport Tycoon Deluxe is necessary to play OpenTTD. Soon OpenTTD will be completely open-source and installation will be simple.

Click on your operating system in the menu for installation instructions:

Contents 1 Installation on Windows 2 Installation on Mac OS X 3 Installation on Linux 4 Files from TTD 5 See also

[edit] Installation on Windows

1. Get Transport Tycoon Deluxe for Windows. If you don't have your CD, see tt-forums.net, or Google it.
2. Install the game on your computer.
3. Download the Windows installer for OpenTTD from the downloads page.
4. Install OpenTTD.
5. Tell OpenTTD where to find your TTD files; it should find them automatically if you used the TTD Windows installer.
6. Remove the TTD installation if you like.
7. Run OpenTTD.

You can also easily compile the latest nightlies yourself with BuildOTTD.

[edit] Installation on Mac OS X

1. Get Transport Tycoon Deluxe for Windows or DOS. If you don't have your CD, see tt-forums.net, or Google it.
2. Create an openttd/ folder on your computer.
3. OpenTTD requires some files from TTD, see below for what files need to go where.
4. Get the OSX installer for OpenTTD from the downloads page.
5. Run OpenTTD.

Attention: To run the original soundtrack, you will need TiMidity and Freepats. See Playing the soundtrack

If the music doesn't work, the cause might be the file permissions.

1. Select all of the .gm files in the gm/ folder, press CMD + I to "Get Info".
2. Under "Ownership & Permissions" select "you can: Read & Write".
3. Restart OpenTTD.

[edit] Installation on Linux

1. Get Transport Tycoon Deluxe for Windows or DOS. If you don't have your CD, see tt-forums.net, or Google it.
2. Create an openttd/ directory on your computer.
3. OpenTTD requires some files from TTD, see below for what files need to go where.
4. Download the OpenTTD from the downloads page.
5. Run OpenTTD.

• You can also download the source and compile the game yourself! See Compiling on Linux.

[edit] Files from TTD

OpenTTD requires the following original game files from your Transport Tycoon Deluxe installation CD. The following files are mandatory. You need to copy them to the data/ directory, which is in your OpenTTD directory. These files contain the grapics and the sound effects:

• trg1r.grf
• trgcr.grf
• trghr.grf
• trgir.grf
• trgtr.grf
• sample.cat

Additionally, you may want to copy the original game music. To accomplish that, you need to copy the /gm/ folder from the TTD CD to your OpenTTD directory (don't put it in the data/ dir!).

There are a few ways to get these files:

• Copy the folder and files from the TTD game CD to your openttd/ folder.
• Unzip a TTD installation zip file, and copy the folders.
• Install TTD for Windows on another partition and then copy the folders.

[edit] See also

• Installation FAQ for other installation methods