Opening big parks like Brad's Alton Towers one

[DJay]

hey everyone
When i tried to open someones Blackpool recreation - may have been from here i'm not too sure, it took literally half an hour to load through the annoying "Rollercoaster tycoon 3 is loading this that and the other" and when i got there i couldnt move anywhere. I'd move the mouse and minutes later the screen would move a very little percent. The point is, when brad posts his alton towers, i doubt very much i will be able to experience its greatness 10sur10 .
Also, when running RCT3, sometimes the computer will freeze after or during creation of a coaster or building, and i have to reset. This is becoming a regular occurance. Also, when i try to create a big park full of trees and what not, it takes literally forever to load and goes very slowly when i eventually get onto it. I'm guessing its the graphics card which hasnt been updated. I'm running windows XP - not sure what settings, but its so annoying. I would have bought soaked by now if this problem wasnt there. What do i do? rolleyesa

[daboywunda]

I'm running a pretty big computer that can cope with it. But I also have the problem with loading big parks... just the time it takes is scaled down!

However, I get the freezing that happens, then told that it's an Atari problem because my graphics card has stopped recieving graphics commands from the game. some-times I#'m lucky and Windows XP resets the graphics card and the game without crashing, which allows me to save the game and reboot.

[wardl895]

Hi the Blackpool Pleasure Beach park was probably mine, the park was too large in detail for RCT3 to cope with it, i have am now about half way through my fully re-design of the park as i have started from scratch using RCT3 soaked...

So that park was one of the largest i know of, and tested rct3's ability to play Mega parks, so try to ignore it.

(In the end i gave up on it as my pc would not allow me to ride any rides as it restarted)

Rich