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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
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Developers
Frontier Developments
Publishers
Atari
OS X Aspyr Media
Release dates
Windows October 26, 2004
macOS (OS X) November 25, 2005
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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 on Wikipedia
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RollerCoaster Tycoon
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RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic 2017
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Active modding community
Game is not optimized for modern hardware so performance can still suffer on the most powerful Haswell CPUs

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
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Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
 Platinum Edition; Retail or download
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GOG.com
DRM-free
 Platinum Edition
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Mac App Store
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 Platinum Edition, OS X only
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Origin
Origin
 Platinum Edition
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Steam
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 Platinum Edition
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GOG.com version includes bonus content. (Soundtrack, three manuals, and two avatars).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Patches

Installing patches for mismatched editions causes problems, be sure to get the correct update.

Original Edition: The latest is update three. From vanilla. From update one. From update two.
"Soaked!" expansion: There is only one patch for this expansion pack and is segmented to US and EU patches. Those who own the Scholastic version of the game should pick up this patch instead.
"Wild!" expansion: The American version has 2 patches, Update 1 and Update 2. The EU version can be found here.
Gold Edition: One update.
Platinum Edition: Comes fully pre-patched.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2700/pfx/[Note 1]
OS X location may vary depending on the version of the game you have.

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2700/pfx/[Note 1]
OS X location may vary depending on the version of the game you have.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.

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Input settings

Keyboard Remapping
Camera Controls

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Audio settings

Audio and General Game Settings

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Issues fixed

Windows 7 crash on start

In Windows Vista or Windows 7, users may experience a crash while attempting to start the game for the first time.
Instructions

Windows 7 crashing issue

You may need to change folder options to show hidden files to see some files
Ensure you have access to edit the options file by going to the properties of the file and setting the permissions to all for the user you wish to edit them.
Instructions

On Windows the game fails to launch but attempts to launch over and over again.

In Windows the game may fail to launch, but the game keeps trying to launch over and over again, this is caused by the game not being installed on the system partition.
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000 XP, Vista, 7, 8.x
Processor (CPU) Pentium III 733 MHz Pentium 4 1.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB, 256 MB for XP and onwards 256 MB, 384 MB for XP and onwards
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon
GeForce 2
32 MB of VRAM 		ATI Radeon SDR
GeForce 2 Pro
64 MB of VRAM

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macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7.5, 10.8.2
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo (Dual-Core) 2.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon HD 2600
Nvida GeForce 8600
256 MB of VRAM

Supported Mac GPUs

ATI/AMD Nvida Intel
HD Series GeForce Intel HD
2600 8600 3000
3870 8800 4000
4670 9400
4850 9600
5670 GT
5750 120
5770 320M
5870 330M
6490 650M
6630
6750
6770
6970

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Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/2700/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (2700) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References