Roller Coaster Tycoon - repeated crashing

Penelope_Penguin

Hello, my son bought Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 (Deluxe edition, 3 disk set) yesterday.

Unfortunately, it crashes repeatedly, and we need to reboot the computer.

Any ideas what's causing this, and what we need to do?

Thanks in advance, and a cake for everyone who helps (I'm here temporarily from the OS board)

Penny. x

Browntoa

try turning off the firewall + antivirus etc while he is playing it

specs for the game

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

try downloading the latest directx here

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.mspx

do you know what graphics card you have ??

post the model/make of PC and we will see if anything needs updating to meet the spec

Omertron

Browntoa wrote:

try turning off the firewall + antivirus etc while he is playing it

Making sure first that you are not connected to the internet first!

Did you install the game and both of the expansion packs? If so, try installing just the main game, and see if that runs first, then add the two expansion disks one by one, testing each time (in case it's the expansion that causes issues)

Browntoa

yes, suppose I should have mentioned that

assumed as it was not an online game then he would be offline

Edinburghlass_2

**tiptoes in**

I wondered about the graphics card myself having had similar problems with Sims2 and an upgrade was needed

**tiptoes out**

Browntoa

tiptoes in to follow....

sort of why I asked about the PC make and model..wondered if it was "on board" graphics...on paper some games look like they meet the minimum spec for RAM but the graphics card grabs a slice...

** skips away *** lol

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, everyone, and thanks for the tips so far. I have an Acer Aspire 5001 laptop, less than a year old. Does that give enough information for you to work out what the graphics card will be? I'll go and dig out the original spec.

Penny. x

superscaper

Looks like it's an integrated chipset SiSM760GX. They're not usually very for games but I don't have any personal experience of them, maybe someone else here has.

superscaper

Maybe an updated graphics driver will help?http://www.sis.com/download/

Browntoa

go to windows updates and see if there are any updated drivers for the graphics on there...will be under custom downloads

looked on the site above but it's not all that clear which one to use

superscaper

I think it's the IG graphics section and the model number is listed there but maybe not worth risking getting the wrong one, as Browntoa says best trying to update from windows. It's not like nvidia's pretty much all in one driver downloads.