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Railroad Tycoon 3

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Railroad Tycoon 3
Railroad Tycoon 3 cover
Developers
PopTop Software
macOS (OS X) Beenox Studios
Publishers
Gathering of Developers
OS X MacSoft
2K Games
Release dates
Windows October 27, 2003
macOS (OS X) September 13, 2004
Railroad Tycoon 3 guide on StrategyWiki
Railroad Tycoon 3 on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
Railroad Tycoon
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon 1990
Railroad Tycoon II 1998
Railroad Tycoon 3 2003
Sid Meier's Railroads! 2006

Key points

Disable Hardware T&L in options to prevent issues on modern versions of Windows.[1]
The Coast to Coast expansion is available for free as v1.4 Patch.
GameSpy online server browser has stopped working due to GameSpy services being shut down.

General information

Hawk & Badger Railroad - A fansite and file database for the game
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM DRM disc check
Windows
Retail
DRM details are not known
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Coast to Coast Free download; also known as 1.04 Patch
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

1.05 Patch is the latest version; requires 1.04 Patch.

Maps, etc.

All of the official downloads and user created fixes for the game can be found here

Railroad Tycoon 3 Matchmaker

An alternate online multiplayer lobby program, it allows the game to be played online without the GameSpy servers.

Full details and download link for the utility/patch can be found on the official site.

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.
In-game miscellaneous settings.
In-game miscellaneous settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\Configuration[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7610/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saved Games[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7610/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game general video settings.
In-game general video settings.

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Input settings

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game camera settings.
In-game camera settings.

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
4 Versus
Online play
Not available now game spy servers have been shutdown. Server being used by 3rd party has been closed, the client is no longer available for download. See [1] and [2] for more information.

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 6073, 6500, 9000
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Game crashes on startup

The game crashes when running Windows Vista/7/8/10 using the default configuration. The only way to play the game is to disable the game's hardware T&L setting:

Disable Hardware T&L[1]
  1. Make sure that the game has the latest patch installed (v1.05). Patch downloads can be found here.
  2. Download the Vista/Win 7/Win 8 Fix from here.
  3. Extract the contents of the ZIP file.
  4. Move the engine.cfg file to the game's configuration folder (<path-to-game>\Data\Configuration).
  5. Confirm the file overwrite.
  6. Launch the game.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) 400 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.2 GB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/7610/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (7610) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References