Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and Vista, won't run.

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daveandy1

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Hello All!

I have Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, with the Soaked expansion installed. Everything was working fine, until, I tried to upgrade the drivers for my video card. Let's open the can of worms, shall we?

Card is old, supposedly not even good enough for Vista, though it works just fine. Here's what it is: NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX440 AGP8x.

My first sign to stop should have come when the NVIDIA website didn't even have Vista drivers for this card, but I pressed on, using various ForceWare versions from Guru3D, some digitally signed, others night. Through hours of researching this issue on the web, I found that Forceware 71.90 for XP, installed through the device manager should work, and it does. Before, the other drivers I was trying were causing Vista to load to a black screen.

But now, RCT3 does not work. First it was asking for DirectX 9 to be installed, now it's an unknown error, with no reason given. Vista tries to find a solution, and that is to contact ATARI, and ATARI apparently doesn't provide support for the game when it's installed into Vista.

Other folks have told me my card isn't good enough for RCT3, but it is, because it worked fine in the past, of course with almost no nice graphics, but that's okay for now.

My system meets the minimum specs for RCT3. They follow:

Vista Home Basic, build 6002
Pentium 4HT 2.8ghz
512MB RAM
300GB HD
and above mentioned video card.

Through researching why RCT3 won't work, everything on the net says it should because Vista has DirectX 9.0L, as well as all previous versions of DirectX. Other folks are receiving runtime errors, I haven't.

Right now, I'm getting the unknown error message, so I don't know if it's still coughing over DX9. Can anybody help?
 

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Essentially, don't bother. You can get a splitting migraine for a few days or build a new pc that will be 3 times faster for a little $$$. A geforce MX card and 512MB RAM? Does Vista take a few minutes to open explorer?
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Sony Vaio Z46GDU
    CPU
    [email protected] w/6MB L2 cache 1066MHz FSB
    Memory
    6GB DDR3 1066MHz SDRAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    9300M GS 256MB + Intel Integrated 4500MHD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    13.1" WXGA True Colour Tough
    Screen Resolution
    1600x900
    Hard Drives
    320GB SATA 7200RPM
    Internet Speed
    1MB/s
I will bother because upgrading just isn't an option right now. I have better things to spend my money on at the moment. I don't use Internet Explorer, but Firefox gets up and going just fine, matter of seconds. If you meant Windows Explorer, yes, it can be slow, but I deal with what I have.
 

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Download the directx user runtime for directx 9.
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Sony Vaio Z46GDU
    CPU
    [email protected] w/6MB L2 cache 1066MHz FSB
    Memory
    6GB DDR3 1066MHz SDRAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    9300M GS 256MB + Intel Integrated 4500MHD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    13.1" WXGA True Colour Tough
    Screen Resolution
    1600x900
    Hard Drives
    320GB SATA 7200RPM
    Internet Speed
    1MB/s
I did that, and it wouldn't install. It made like it would, and then just said all files are up to date or something along those lines.

Anyways guys, I solved the problem by System Restoring back to 9/21/09, long before I ever started tweaking the drivers. Then I was finally able to uninstall and reinstall RCT3, and it now works again.

It sucks because I would really like to be able to use those 71.90 drivers again, and I want the NVIDIA control panel to manually set some quality and performance settings.

I may try again, as they are digitally signed, and the first batch I used were not, and that's where I believe my troubles started.
 

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I run RCT2 on my Vista Home premium computer, with 3 gigs of ram. My comps Specs on the forums here.

512 megs is not much ram to run Vista in.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Aspire X1700
    Motherboard
    ASUS
    Memory
    3 gigs
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA 1 gig GeForce 210
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Vizio 21" tv
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080 resolution
    Hard Drives
    1 terabyte sata in 1 partition
    Cooling
    fans that came with it
    Keyboard
    basic USB
    Mouse
    basic USB
    Internet Speed
    3 megabits on a cable modem, wired
JimJoe said:
I run RCT2 on my Vista Home premium computer, with 3 gigs of ram. My comps Specs on the forums here.

512 megs is not much ram to run Vista in.
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That's an understatement.:p
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Sony Vaio Z46GDU
    CPU
    [email protected] w/6MB L2 cache 1066MHz FSB
    Memory
    6GB DDR3 1066MHz SDRAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    9300M GS 256MB + Intel Integrated 4500MHD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    13.1" WXGA True Colour Tough
    Screen Resolution
    1600x900
    Hard Drives
    320GB SATA 7200RPM
    Internet Speed
    1MB/s
Hi Everyone,
I really need someone to help my with my RCT3 Platinum edition. Last year i downloaded it fine. After a while i didn't want to play it anymore and was taking up space on my computer so i uninstalled it. Now i want to play it again and it says Please insert Disc One. Please some one help i love this game and want to play again!
 

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My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo Thinkpad T400
    CPU
    Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53GHz
    Motherboard
    LENOVO 64734VM
    Memory
    2.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 531MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family
    Sound Card
    Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15 inch
    Screen Resolution
    1280 x 800
    Hard Drives
    1x 180GB Intel 530 series SSD
    1 x 120GB Hitachi 5400rmp
    1 x 650GB Western Digital Elements 5400rpm
    1x 1Tb Western Digital Elements 5400rpm
    Internet Speed
    Medium for New Zealand
    Other Info
    Weakest part of my computer is the graphics chipset.
    Only ever used a laptop.
    Also use USB Freeview TV Card
    Lenovo Docking Station
    External Speakers
    Other bits a pieces as needed
I run RCT2 on my Vista Home premium computer, with 3 gigs of ram. My comps Specs on the forums here.

512 megs is not much ram to run Vista in.
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I agree with that.
It does meet with the minimum system requirements for Vista, I'm not sure about the minimum system requirements for RCT3.

Perhaps upgrading the memory to 3 or 4GB of RAM to speed up the game?
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Nirv Pro SLI (shipped to NZ)
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 Extreme 980X (Six-Core) 3.33GHz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte X58A-UD5 - SLI, Crossfire, SATA 6Gbps & USB 3.0
    Memory
    12GB G.Skill Ripjaws High Performance Low-Latency DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    2x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 3GB GGDR5
    Sound Card
    N/A
    Monitor(s) Displays
    23" Samsung XL2370 Monitor and 23" Benq V2410 Monitor (extended monitor)
    Screen Resolution
    1,920 x 1,080 (on both monitors)
    Hard Drives
    2TB Western Digital Caviar SATA (7200rpm)
    600GB VelociRaptor SATA (10000rpm)
    PSU
    Silverstone Strider Plus Modular 750-Watt SLI
    Case
    Corsair Obsidian 800D System Chassis
    Cooling
    Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev. 2
    Keyboard
    Logitech G19 Gaming USB Keyboard
    Mouse
    Razer Mamba Gaming Mouse
    Internet Speed
    Max - 1.8MB/Sec (DSL) provided by Telecom NZ
    Other Info
    iPhone 4 Black 16GB, iPad 32GB WiFi+3G, iPod Touch 2nd generation
Have you checked to see if anything pops up on your taskbar? If you see an icon with a monitor and a blue screen, click on it.

I'm guessing this problem is either caused by a conflicting program, or Data Execution Prevention.

I suggest you try these two before giving up:

1. Right click on "Computer" in the start menu, then select properties. Click on Advanced System Settings, and when prompted allow the program to run. Click on settings next to "Performance" under the "Advanced" tab. Open the Data Execution Prevention tab, then select "Turn on DEP for all programs except those I select". Click add, and open the .exe for RCT3. Click apply or ok and try again.

2. Open msconfig, you can search it in the start menu, or open it with run. Then click on services, then select "Hide all Microsoft services". Then click disable all. Restart your computer and try again, if it runs fine, a program is preventing the game from running.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway DX4860
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-2320 @ 3.00GHz
    Memory
    6GB DDR3 SDRAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    Zotac GeForce GT 240 1GB GDDR5
    Sound Card
    Intel H67 Express
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung SyncMaster 2253LW
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050 @ 60Hz
    Hard Drives
    SATA II 1.5TB Hard Drive
    PSU
    450 Watts
    Keyboard
    HP 5189
    Mouse
    NexxTech Wired Optical Mouse
    Internet Speed
    Telus High Speed 15mb/s
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