RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
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| Developers | |
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| 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 | |
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| RollerCoaster Tycoon | 1999 |
| RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 | 2002 |
| RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 | 2004 |
| OpenRCT2 (Engine fanport) | 2015 |
| RollerCoaster Tycoon World | 2016 |
| RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic | 2017 |
| RollerCoaster Tycoon Adventures | 2019 |
Key points
- First title in the series using a 3D engine
- Active modding community.
- Game is not optimized for modern hardware.
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 |
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| Retail | |
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| Amazon.com | |
Platinum Edition. | |
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| Amazon.com | |
Platinum Edition. | |
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Platinum Edition. | |
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| GOG.com | |
Platinum Edition. Includes bonus goodies such as the soundtrack, three manuals, and two avatars. | |
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| Mac App Store | |
Platinum Edition. | |
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| Origin | |
Platinum Edition. | |
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| Steam | |
Platinum Edition. | |
DLC and expansion packs
| Name | Notes | |
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| Soaked! | |
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| Wild! | |
Essential improvements
Track designs from the isometric 2D titles RollerCoaster Tycoon and RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 can be imported.
Skip intro videos
| Instructions |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| GOG Galaxy | ||
| Origin | ||
| Steam Cloud |
Video settings
Video settings.
Input settings
Keyboard Remapping
Camera Controls
Audio settings
Audio and General Game Settings
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.
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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 |
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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.
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System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum[1][2] | 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 |
| macOS (OS X) | ||
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| Minimum[1] | ||
| 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 |
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Supported Mac GPUs
| ATI/AMD | Nvidia | Intel |
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| 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 |
Notes
- ↑ 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.
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