This is a simple one having nothing to do with my other IT interests but it was frustrating for me to figure out a few weeks ago I purchased Tropico 3 absolute power and every time I tried to launch the application it would immediatly crash.

The fix was simple for me I am running multiple monitors, for some reason the game can not handle this configuration you have to disable all extra monitors then it does not have a problem.

The shortcut in windows 7 is win+p otherwise it is in your display settings menu