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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Crashed often

Written by CW from San Francisco

Feb 3, 2007

I have a Macbook Pro 2.16Ghz and this program crashes just about every time I play it. I installed the patch and that helped a lot to smooth out the graphics, but it still crashes pretty much every day. Pretty annoying. It is a great game to play, but I guess get in a habit of saving often!

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

IT WORKS ON INTEL MAC'S!!!

Written by BM from La Grande

Jan 31, 2007

I am playing this game on a 1.83 GHz MacBook Intel Core Duo with 512 MB of RAM. and I have not had a problem. Here is how I got it to work. before I ran the game for the first time I installed the Universal patch from apple.com. Once that was done I have not had a problem. (Note: I have not tried to import any songs from iTunes yet) My sugestion to people who can't get the game to work is to delete the game and ALL its preference files. Put the game back on your hard drive (But do NOT open it yet.), Install the universal patch then open the game. Hope that works.

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

good game

Written by CM

Jan 15, 2007

im runing it on a 17" 1ghz g4 laptop and the game is great have onle had it crash once and that was with the itunes intergration i have to admit that the rolercoaster cam this dose get chopy at time but uther that that it is a good game

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Love It, But No iTunes:(

Written by CR from Encinitas

Jan 15, 2007

This game is totally fun, except for the iTunes problem i'm having. If you are going to get this game because you want to make really cool coasters that go along with your music, forget about it. I tried a lot of times to import my playlist to the game (and it says you can) but it always just exits.

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

It does work on Intel Macs

Written by SC from sierraville

Dec 30, 2006

Allright, after reading several reviews...was very skeptical, but once I saw the new Universal patch had been released, I tried it. Glad I did. I have an intel macbook 1.5mb 2.0ghz which was able to handle most of the game features reasonably well. It would slow down when there were several rides and it was "night", so I just kept things to "daytime" when I could. The game will still quit unexpectedly every now and then, but not to the point where it makes the game unplayable...just gotta save quite a bit. - these two reasons are why I gave it a four star instead of a 5, cause the game is very fun and can spend hours creating whole themeparks from scratch or with some guidance. Otherwise, "insidemacgames" has a pretty accurate view as well. Hope this helps

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

ADDICTING!!!!

Written by OJ from Austin

Nov 23, 2006

the most addicting game EVER i dont know how many daysive wasted playing this game. although i wish it was a bit more challenging cant wait till 4 comes out, As for the crashes....... I went to the aspyr website and doloaded the update since then the game runs as smooth as any PC game ive ever had

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

It would be great, if it worked.

Written by MC from West Jordan

Nov 5, 2006

Even with the patch for intel macs to run this game program, it crashes. The game would be fun, if it weren't forever "quitting unexpectedly." Don't waste your money, unless you like to be frustrated by poor performance. Aspyr should have done a little more work to make this game ready for primetime. Instead, it seems they released it as quickly as they could to make their money without regard to customer satisfaction.

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

NOT FOR NEW MACS

Written by HL from Batavia

Oct 23, 2006

I HAVE A NEW 24" INTE DUEL MAC AND THIS GAME CRASHED EVERY 30 MIN. UNTIL IT FINALLY HAD A MEMORY ERROR AND WON'T RUN AT ALL

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

do not get to attached

Written by JB

Oct 16, 2006

yes, roller coaster tycoon 3 is great, but you can not get too attached. you will want to be able to do things you can only do with the expansion packs like building under ground and creating a water park. but they only make roller coaster tycoon 3 for mac and not the exspansion packs. also, it will sometime not work that well on your computer. i would rate the product five, but it would only be a four or five with the exspansion packs.

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Good Game but slow

Written by KC from toronto

Oct 9, 2006

Im running a 15.4" macbookpro 2.16 ghz intel based with 2 gb of ram. The game is great but it runs slow. When riding a ride first person its super slow. Dont get this game for mac get it for a PC im sure it will run faster on it.

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Decent

Written by SM from Saginaw

Oct 8, 2006

Id love to give it five stars, because its a great game if you LOVE rollercoasters like I do. I love the in-ride camera, and its fun to make rides with friends....

The reason I gave it 4 stars is because as soon as you get a big park going, it lags very badly. I use a MacMini with 1GB of RAM and it ran fine but once you get more than 10 rides up it lags like none other.

Overall, great game.

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

great

Written by IB from Fullerton

Jul 5, 2006

this game runs surprisingly great on my iBook G4. everything is just about perfect except when i try to import songs from my itunes playlist, it quits the game. other than that this game is worth your money.

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

GREAT!!!!!!!!

Written by SS from Saint Paul

Jul 1, 2006

Crashed once, then I re-imported it and have had no trouble since. I really enjoy riding the rides and having Clint Bushton come into my park. This game is so great!

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

More!

Written by LP from Woodland Hills

Jun 30, 2006

Rollercoaster tycoon 3 is superlative but I want Atari Frontier and Aspyr to make the Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Wild Soaked and Gold edition for Mac. I really mean that all of them are superlative, I just said gold edition for other people. Hope they make them soon.

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Problems with RCT3 on a G5

Written by PG from South San Francisco

Jun 13, 2006

Although I like the game I had several major problems. On a G5 with 1ghz of RAM the program would consistently close with no warning. With more than one or two coasters in a theme park the car cam became jerky at best. Strangest of all after adjusting some of the option settings in the game the brightness on my screen would enexpectedly go to half brightness when NOT playing it. That could only be corrected by rebooting only to recur every few minutes. Don't know if RCT3 caused the problem but after running the utility disk - system optimizer - zap pram - turning off the energy saver and reloading the latest security update the problem continued and only stopped when I removed all RCT3 files from my hard drive. Perhaps it had something to do with the brightness setting in the game which I adjusted while trying to optimize the games performance.

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Almost perfect

Written by KP

Jun 5, 2006

I cannot think of a better game...on mac, unfortunatly not all good games are for mac, but i tried this, and i thought, if only they had the expansion packs it would be perfect.

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

very good game, but crashes often

Written by LB from Manhattan

Jun 5, 2006

The game is very addicting and the graphics are awesome but it crashes a frequently on my 1,6 Ghz imac G5. Don't buy this game if you don't have a fast computer!!

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Disappointing

Written by BM

May 8, 2006

this is a great game to pass the time. but it doesnt run well at all on the new intel mac (which is the sole reason i wanted this) so i have to run it on my old g4.

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