RCT3:Soaked Issue

Hi guys! I am having a problem with building pools. I can make pool pathways, but whenever I build an actual pool full of water my computer freezes. Can anyone here help me?

when i make pools it lags really bad but its only the pools i dont know why try messing around with your graphics settings also what kind of graphics card are you running it on?

Is it only pools that you build? or all the pools in general.

The pools that peeps swim in.

Never have problems with soaked, just wild sometimes. But i havnt DLed the update yet. Good luck!

Originally posted by josh00110

try messing around with your graphics settings also what kind of graphics card are you running it on?

just post DxDiag

^What is DxDiag?

EDIT: Is this it?

System Manufacturer: D850GB
System Model: GB85010A
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1500MHz
Memory: 640MB RAM
Page File: 212MB used, 1352MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

do you have the patch that been relsed for soaked? that might help with the lag in the game I never had lag in my game do you have all of the patchs for the game? if this dosn'nt help go to atra teck support they may be able to help you with the prolums that you are having with soaked if you have wild then you don'nt need the soaked patch I am a member of the atria forms so I know that there is a patch for soaked and wild.

I DO NOT HAVE LAG!!!! My game plays perfectly, except when I make a pool and it freezes, there is no lag.

I don'nt know what the proulm whould be if there is no leg then it is something to do with your computer I never had that proulm with soaked that is relly wered that it frezes when you buld the pools all I can think of is that there is a bug with rct3 that it frezes for a colum of mins when bulding rides and other stuff with rct3 I had that proulm with rct3 wild that it frezes when bulding rides and shops but I never herd of this bug before what tipe of graths card do you have on your computer? I have a new computer with an ati graths card maybe you should get a ati graths card for your computer or get a computer with the ati graths card in it I did that and rct3 runs relly good it chould also be something with your hard dive I had the same proulms with my old computer when I got my new computer with the ati graths card it runs relly good no leg or frezing when I buld things like pools.

Here is what I found on the graphics card, I do not know if this is good or not...

Card name: ALL-IN-WONDER 9000
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: Radeon 9000 (IF) Pro
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)

out of curiosity do you have pci xpress

I'm pretty sure they don't make the AIW 9000 in PCIX.

Get the patch, if problem still remains try reinstalling it.

I re-installed RCT3, Soaked, and Wild. I got the patch, AND IT STILL FREEZES WHEN I BUILD POOLS!!!

DragonFly, taking a look at your RAM, I can guess you have an onboard graphics chip, not an actual card. Take a look at the entire dxdiag and go under display devices, and tell what it says.

I can play RCT3 Wild without any lag or freezes.... well here is the display dxdiag

Card name: ALL-IN-WONDER 9000
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: Radeon 9000 (IF) Pro
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4966&SUBSYS_4F721002&REV_01
Display Memory: 64.0 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0001.6292 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 1/20/2003 20:45:02, 268416 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: n/a
WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
VDD: n/a
Mini VDD: ati2mtag.sys
Mini VDD Date: 1/20/2003 20:44:36, 569984 bytes
Device Identifier: {D7B71EE2-0A26-11CF-266B-736FA0C2CB35}
Vendor ID: 0x1002
Device ID: 0x4966
SubSys ID: 0x4F721002
Revision ID: 0x0001
Revision ID: 0x0001
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_D ModeMPEG2_C
Deinterlace Caps: {6E8329FF-B642-418B-BCF0-BCB6591E255F}:

ya got me stumped i dont know what it could be try going to the web site and email them maybe they could help

I was on Atari, but to register you have to have a non-free email acount, and I am signed up with yahoo.

give me all of the specific details of whats wrong and i'll copy and paste and email them for you and tell them what you say if you want

I also have these issues with pools. whenever i try to build a pool/pool complex the game lags BAD. I have a geforce 6800 videocard and 1.5 gigs of ram eith a 2.8 ghz processor so i dont think its because my system is slow. Its probably just the game itself because the code for thegame is not very well optimized i hear meaning that it runs mostly piss poor and sucks up alot of power and leaves some of the surfaces in the game with jaggid edges even with aa on. Too bad the game rockas as much as it does because if it didn't i would be mad.

i have the same graphics card and right after i put it in i was pissed that it still laged on pools but after you build the pools its runs as smooth as silk