Is Soaked worth it?

Ha! :)

Chicken bones and cow's blood do not make for good programming.

So you HAVE been dabbling in Voodoo...

I was able to run RCT3 fairly good on my brand new Laptop. (bought a few weeks before the game was released). I can play the Scenarios with good fps and was even able to have an average of 5-10 fps in a packed sandbox by night. Not perfect, but I could not complain. Especially when I read what other people got on their desk-top machines.

When I insalled Soaked, the auto-setting put my graphics to a minimum. It looked awful and played choppy from the beginning. I messed with the setting and it became better when I increased the levels!

As soon as I put in waterfalls, the fps drops severly. When I add lots of "office walls" -scenery the game decides to quit without warning.

But what irks me the most about Soaked is the fact that I can´t open my RCT3 sandbox parks anymore! The loading time went from 2 minutes to about FIFTEEN! When it is finally loaded I get fps of about 0.1 .

Soaked has even messed up some old parks by placing ride elements where they don´t belong (there is a tilt section of the tilt coaster sitting somewhere on the map! Its impossible to remove.)

Yeah, even when I had the beta version, I found it rather odd that, generally speaking, the setting differences had no effect. To me, that says that the video hardware rendering isn't being challenged, yet the creation of 3D geometry by the software engine performs like crap.

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Soaked has even messed up some old parks by placing ride elements where they don´t belong (there is a tilt section of the tilt coaster sitting somewhere on the map! Its impossible to remove.)

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Hey trick track i have the exact same problem. I have a piece of tilt coaster right in the middle of a lake on one of my sanbox parks. I can add land around it build over top of it do anything but remove it.If i uninstall and just reinstall rct3 it is fine ,once i install soaked the trick track piece shows up and there is nothing that will get rid of it. I agree with gonch, only the fan boys have seen improvement. The only thing my version will see is the garbage because that is what it is!!

Another thing that Soaked messed up is the Sprial Coaster (Schwarzkopf.) There is no spiral lift anymore. :(

It's one of my favorite coaster designs.

I have yet to buy RCT3 due to money issues. I am looking for an online demo that will allow me to buy the full version after the demo is up, does anyone know where I can go for that?

Interesting problem with the floating tilt coaster piece. Have either of your guys forwarded your park with the problem to Michael at Frontier? If not you should do so. Because that's about the only way problems like that seem to be addressed. Best to get them in now so it can be added to the list of things to fix.

You can send your saved parks with the problem to Michael at:

rct3game@frontier.co.uk

DivyneSerenity: The demo doesn't work like that. You don't pay to upgrade it. It's a completely seperate program. You just buy the full version and subsequent expansions when you are ready. Check out atari's site:

http://www.atari.com/us/demos/

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