CRAZY lag...

Okay, so I recently got a new laptop. Its a Dell and it has Windows 7, 320gig memory, 3gigs of RAM... its a good computer. Nothing special, but should easily handle SM. I re-downloaded the game, entered my key, went to play, and it was lagging like crazy. The menu also was windowed for some reason. Is there some sort of details/settings I'm missing to fix this? I messed with resolution and that did nothing.

I need help! How can I make the game run faster?!?!

Make sure your video drivers, particularly with OpenGL, are up to date. The biggest problem with computers these days is video hardware which is usually very cheap and unable to handle 3D effectively but if you got the computer within the past year it shouldn't be that bad so most likely the issue is with drivers.

Yeah the computer is brand new and RCT3 runs just fine on it and that game is also 3D, I have no idea what to do

RCT is probably running in Direct3d, not OpenGL. As he said, you need to update your OpenGL drivers.

Download the tool from this site
http://gregs-blog.com/2007/12/16/how-to ... e-running/

Post a screenshot of the results like they did showing the various OpenGL extensions. I ran into this issue with an old graphics card but I did some trickery to get the old drivers to work on Win7 and voila, I had my OpenGL back.

As of now, go to whatever graphics card makers website you have and download the latest drivers.

RCT3 uses some basic DirectX 9 features all of which are supported by even the cheapest modern onboard graphics chips. Updating your drivers should almost certainly fix the OpenGL problem and RCT3 may perform better.

If you can't identify your graphics card, right click on your desktop to properties and go to the settings tab (windows XP) or right click to screen resolution (windows 7). From here a drop down menu should identify your video device. After you identify if its Intel, nVidia, or ATI, go to the company's site and find + download the drivers.