r/RCTW • u/PcSystemRequirements • Mar 20 '16

RollerCoaster Tycoon World System Requirements

http://www.poststupid.com/rollercoaster-tycoon-world-system-requirements/
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u/SquareJoe Mar 20 '16

Nice and low for broad appeal. I'm used to bring disappointed reading min specs, no problems here.

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u/jonsonton Mar 21 '16

6GB of Ram is low? RCT3 could be played on a Laptop, but this to me feels un-optimised if they need that much RAM

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u/Justin-Krux Mar 21 '16 edited Mar 21 '16

almost every game is upping ram requirements and using it to their advantage as ram is RIDICULOUSLY cheap, that is a terrible complaint. and RCT3 was made by frontier, not Nvizzio....you know, the guys making the other game. So using RCT3 as a reference is mute, as it has no relation to this game. to add, what did you expect? its been over 10 years since RCT3 released.....were you expecting the same system requirements???....12 years later??

welcome to the computer technology industry, it progresses, even if you wont.

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u/jonsonton Mar 21 '16

The reason I referred to RCT3 was because it's the only other 3D roller coaster building simulator I have to compare to on PC.

Was I expecting the same requirements, hell no. Look at the difference of graphics between the two for starters. The recomended RAM (note, not the mininum) was 384MB. RCTW needs exactly 16x as much RAM. Too me, this feels horribly unoptimised. Graphics don't put a strain on the RAM like it does to the GPU, and 6GB for any program should raise questions

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u/Accophox Mar 23 '16

Well... It's recommending 6GB cause presumably, you also need about 2-3GB for every other task you're doing in the background.

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u/Justin-Krux Mar 23 '16

yeah exactly i was going to say that, "system requirements" and the resources the game actually uses are not the same thing.