Roller Coaster Tycoon 3

[Lathum]

Anyone have? I've been thinking of grabbing it for old times sake.

[Pumpy Tudors]

I have it. I just bought the second expansion for it, but I haven't installed it yet.

[Greyroofoo]

I think its a pretty good game.

[Abe Sargent]

Yes, but even with the expansions it still has very poor sim AI. Prior to the expansions it had brokenly unplayable bad AI, now its just poor.

[saldana]

in all seriousness, unless Mrs. Lathums computer is pretty good, you dont have a machine that can handle it....pretty sure you need a decent 3d video card.

[Lathum]

in all seriousness, unless Mrs. Lathums computer is pretty good, you dont have a machine that can handle it....pretty sure you need a decent 3d video card.
do you have it?

[saldana]

nope.

[Lathum]

then how do you know, did you look up the system requierments?

[saldana]

from atari.com

Operating System: Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP (Windows® XP recommended)
Processor: Pentium® III 733 MHz or compatible (Pentium® 4 1.2 GHz or compatible recommended)
Memory: 128 MB RAM; 256 MB for XP (256 MB; 384 MB for XP recommended)
Hard Disk Space: 600 MB free
CD-ROM Drive: 4X CD-ROM or faster (8X or faster recommended)
Video:Any ATI Radeon™ or GeForce™ 2 with 32MB or higher; or other video card with 32MB and hardware T&L (ATI Radeon™ 64 MB SDR or GeForce™ 2 Pro or other video card with 64 MB or more memory and hardware T&L recommended)*
Sound: Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP-compatible 16-bit sound card*
DirectX®: DirectX® version 9 (included) or higher

[AgustusM]

why would you consider this a high end system? I have 5 computers in my house that blow this out of the water. these specs seem very low to me.

oh, and on topic my wife plays the hell out of RCT2 and she was playing the demo of 3 today - it looked pretty good, but she plays that game way more then I ever would.

from atari.com

Operating System: Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP (Windows® XP recommended)
Processor: Pentium® III 733 MHz or compatible (Pentium® 4 1.2 GHz or compatible recommended)
Memory: 128 MB RAM; 256 MB for XP (256 MB; 384 MB for XP recommended)
Hard Disk Space: 600 MB free
CD-ROM Drive: 4X CD-ROM or faster (8X or faster recommended)
Video:Any ATI Radeon™ or GeForce™ 2 with 32MB or higher; or other video card with 32MB and hardware T&L (ATI Radeon™ 64 MB SDR or GeForce™ 2 Pro or other video card with 64 MB or more memory and hardware T&L recommended)*
Sound: Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP-compatible 16-bit sound card*
DirectX®: DirectX® version 9 (included) or higher

[Lathum]

why would you consider this a high end system? I have 5 computers in my house that blow this out of the water. these specs seem very low to me.
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because he knows me better then anyone on the planet...

[saldana]

because he knows me better then anyone on the planet...
and hence i know what kind of system he has (or doesnt have as the case may be). i didnt say it needed a high end system....i said it needed a higher end system than lathum had

[AgustusM]

and hence i know what kind of system he has (or doesnt have as the case may be). i didnt say it needed a high end system....i said it needed a higher end system than lathum had

got it - makes sense

back to minding my onw business now.

[larrymcg421]

RCT3 is a playable game, but it works mostly as a design game, instead of a challenge game. The original RCT had wonderful and challenging scenarios, but the scenarios just don't cut it for me, even the ones you can design on your own.

As for the video card, you'll need a better one for the Water Park expansion than for the original. Radeon's have a bit of a problem with the water effects. There is a fix, but you will suffer performance as a result.

[Draft Dodger]

and hence i know what kind of system he has (or doesnt have as the case may be). i didnt say it needed a high end system....i said it needed a higher end system than lathum had

and, fwiw, my laptop will run a lot of current mid-range games (Dungeon Siege 2, Civ 4, etc) pretty well. But It didn't like RTC3, unless I turned down the graphics down to a point where it wasn't fun.