How many of you? - CoasterBuzz

How many of you can actually run the game smoothly, I mean on high graphics without the frame rate patching up? I didnt both getting it in the end, but I may when I get my new laptop (which should be made for games) i may, so that is my question, how can run it smoothly?

I have a another quick question: If i was to get around 600mb of ram and a pentium 4 processor would that run it smoothly, I dont know what the video card is yet.

From what I've heard it all depends on the video card.

Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.

You can have the best video card on earth and it won't help if your CPU isn't up to snuff.

If you haven't worked your way up to a Pentium 4 (or equivalent) now might be a really good time.

-'Playa

NOTE: Severe fecal impaction may render the above words highly debatable.

I only run on med. settings and it runs ok with the (ATI Radeon 9200) that I have but it will lag badly when there is alot of things(rides etc.) on the screen. But I am happy with the way it runs....just two bad I am really not into the game right know..to me it is just boring right now....just can't get myself to even play it!!!

But I am about to upgrade to a new Video Card--(Nvidia 6800gt) very soon!!!! *** Edited 1/5/2005 9:54:24 PM UTC by Evolution***

ditto to what Evo said.

The game runs fine on my computer with all settings MAXED. It barely ever lags, and even when it does it's not bothersome or for extended periods.

My computer is a brand new Dell 4700. 2.8Ghz processor, 512MB dual channel ram and 256MB Nvidia GeForce 6800 graphics card. It's a solid computer, but nothing too crazy other than the graphics card. It may be a bit expensive to buy a high end graphics card for just RCT3, but if you are into gaming on your computer it's well worth it. I got it for No Limits mostly, but RCT too. On No Limits I get an almost constant 100FPS, where as before I was at about 20. *** Edited 1/5/2005 11:21:14 PM UTC by MrX***

It may look fine to you, but it's dragging. Mine runs at 25FPS on average with little built during daylight - that's fine to me. I don't game enough to really notice. Others do. A fully built park of mid/small-size at night will drag me down to 3FPS. That does become quite noticeable (and annoying).

For the record, I also run at an almost constant 100FPS in No Limits with the lowest I've ever seen being 40FPS (on that canyon one that's included, the name escapes me right now)

Download fraps and then this park file.

Do some tests (onride, offride, day, night, etc) and I think you'll be surprised at how much the game truly cripples your system once you see the hard numbers.

*** Edited 1/5/2005 11:37:26 PM UTC by Lord Gonchar***

coasterimage - lordgonchar

Yeah, I'm sure a full park with 1500 peeps will cripple your system. Looks like a cool park though. I'll check it out when I get home. Not sure how many FPS I get so I'll try the Fraps out.

My only point was that any of the lags I've experienced have not been anything too bad. Granted I haven't built a huge park yet to really push the system to the limits, but I do have a few parks that have quite a bit going on and no problems other than minor lags.

I don't disagree that the game should've been optimized a lot more so it could run on most systems. It shouldn't only be people with top of the line graphics cards that get to really experience the game.

The FPS you mentioned for your park were with maxed settings?

Canyonrunner. :)

Even though most of you are running high settings I still think most of you are like me....finding the game boring. Theming for example...there is nearly not as much theming items in RCT3 than it was in RCT2. That is my biggest problem. I mean you have all the coasters and flats...but with hardly any theming to theme them to me it is useless. I am happy with the card I have until I get a new one....but still I see no RCT3 coasters being uploaded...so it proves my facts that most of you find the game to be boring as well or we would see tons of coasters uploaded.Instead you are seeing more RCT2 coasters uploaded lately!!

So I guess it there is a exspansion I sure hope they through some more theming in there!!!! *** Edited 1/6/2005 12:00:22 AM UTC by Evolution*** *** Edited 1/6/2005 12:01:01 AM UTC by Evolution***

Mr.X - everything maxed in the RCT park. I think the actual frame rate was 38FPS on Canyonrunner. Not sure of my settings on NL. Don't even have NL on my PC anymore. IIRC, all at least at default, many maxed.

Evo - yeah, like in the other thread, I just get bored before I finish anything meanigful. There's some intangible quality that RCT2 had that this doesn't. I mean it's essentially the same game, converted to 3D with tons of pretty added. It should be RCT2+pretty, but it's not. It's just dull.

coasterimage - lordgonchar

I hear what you are saying. The scenarios are odd. They are fairly easy, but the biggest thing I saw on the few scenarios I got tycoon on was that you don't have to do anything to win!! I can't think of everything off hand right now, but for the wild west scenario, like the 2nd or 3rd one, I had ZERO rides operating in my park other than the coasters I needed to build to win the scenario. In total it was one flat ride (the one they start you with near the mine train), 4 coasters, no bathrooms, no shops, no janitors...NOTHING! Yet I got tycoon VERY easy. RCT either makes scenarios too easy, or too hard IMO. *** Edited 1/6/2005 12:20:57 AM UTC by MrX*** *** Edited 1/6/2005 12:22:20 AM UTC by MrX***

Mine is iffy, Its not a pc friendly game, so as to speak. I just upgraded, and its still got the crappy frame rate, now I'm up between one other thing, my motherboard, I need one with faster FSB. Since my upgrade to 2.o Ghz it seems to run a little better, not as crippling, but its still quite choppy. And I get probally anywhere from 85 to 100 FPS with other high end games.

I'm running a custom built 3.06 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 4200 Ti, etc. I was running a 1.7 GHz Celeron processor and the game ran terrible. The opening "splash screen" animations even ran terrible. After I got the new processor, the game rocked! No problems at all.

Then... I left the game alone for a couple of weeks and tried to play it again. The framerate is still great but the sound is choppy.

I like the game a lot. It's really fun to play. But the hardware requirements are ridiculous. Especially since the minimums listed for the game are so low.

What bugs me the most though is the idea of expansion packs. I'm expecting the first one to add some scenery and rides. But mostly it will fix bugs (IMHO). They'll charge us $20 to fix a product that is clearly buggy. Then, another expansion pack with come out a few months later with even more worthless scenery. Sorry, I'm not a big scenery fan. It looks good but I'd rather have the game run well than have a new park theme.

Overall, I'm just saddened by this game. It looks great! It's just so hard (and expensive) to get it to run well. Meanwhile, I just bought Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth and it runs great on my system. Graphics, Sound, everything run just perfect.

OK, enough ranting for now.

Don't worry about your ranting. I couldn't even run the game on my 4 year old dell. When I get some time I'll try to update my drivers.
Until them my parents are enjoying trying to play it with the Grandkids.

Red

Well WE arn't ranting, its just not as easy to play with min specs, and sometimes its just all thats wrong is a driver, that was my problem, until i updated my ATI Radeon 7000, but I can play so I'm pretty happy!

maybe someon can help me. i am running 224 mb of ram, is that why i can't load the game. it says it can't find directx 9.

Once You Feel the Force You Will never Be The Same

Then... I left the game alone for a couple of weeks and tried to play it again. The framerate is still great but the sound is choppy.

Sounds like something you put on in the meantime is messing with things.

What bugs me the most though is the idea of expansion packs. I'm expecting the first one to add some scenery and rides. But mostly it will fix bugs (IMHO). They'll charge us $20 to fix a product that is clearly buggy.

They're issued a free patch already with the 2nd patch coming any day now. The expansions may include patches on them, but won't be patches for profit. (IMHO :) )

it says it can't find directx 9.

That's almost certainly a vid card issue. Update your drivers and see if it helps. If not, you're probably looking at a new card.

coasterimage - lordgonchar

Mixed reviews, but most say it is boring, I have LOTR Battle for middle earth, but I got a celeron, which, well sucks, I plan on getting more RAM, processor 4, and thats it.

Coaster Family, what type of processer do you have? What RAM also? Can you run the graphics on high withouth slowing down the FR?

"Live the thrill", I'm running a 3.06 GHz Intel Pentium 4 with hyper-threading. I've got 512 MB of RAM.

RCT3 runs fine except for sound. I have most of the graphics at medium except for coasters and structures. Cranking everything up to the highest doesn't really slow it down much. Just a few frames per second. Honestly though, the graphics on high aren't much different than on medium. The sliders are a pain to work with. I wish you could just pick High-Medium-Low overall. Instead of tweaking each one. Blech.

I have a hunch that my sound "card" is the problem. I don't have a sound card, just the on-board chip. Since the sound is the ONLY thing that is wonky, I lean towards that.

When I switched from the 1.7 GHz Celeron to the full-blown 3.06 P4, the speed increased dramatically. On the 1.7, the game barely ran. With the 3.06, it was smooth like butter.

The sound was even great for a while. I must have installed something else that messed that up. Hopefully Patch #2 will address some of these issues.

There seem to be major issues with the combo of CPU, RAM, Video Card, and Sound Card (no one ever mentions the sound problem though).

It runs pretty well on my Dell XPS Laptop... Gig of ram... 128 ATI 9700 Radeon...3.4 ghz..