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    How Did YOU Find Out About OpenRCT2?

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    Sorry for the necro, but I kept running into the limits in the original RCT2 as well as it looked horrible off of my 1440p (now 1600p) display, so I searched for RCT2 increased limits, and found this version. Never gone back ever since and I love how active and responsive the devs are here. And yea, trying to run the steam version of RCT2 on windows 10 pro for workstations was just, well, anticlimatic as it kept hanging up with 32 logical processors and 32GB memory for some reason I will never figure out.

    Bug - Not able to get the test result of the ride

    in Problems, Bugs and Feedback

    Posted · Edited by TheKillerChicken

    I just downloaded and opened the map of yours, the train is stuck at moving to end of station hence the no results being processed. The results would easily been processed within seconds even on a celeron N series. Your train is stuck. I am going to fart around and see if I can get it unstuck for you. Yea, your train is outright stuck as no matter what I try to do, it will be trying to move to end of station.

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    Perhaps a bug, or filesystem incompatability

    in Problems, Bugs and Feedback

    Posted · Edited by TheKillerChicken

    45 minutes ago, Broxzier said:

    This sounds like something that the OS should handle, not the individual applications you're running on it. Make sure you have all the files required on your system, and don't paste OpenRCT2 versions over each other. What kind of corruption are you seeing?

    When I load my save, it says that there are missing rides/attractions. All I do is copy the json(s) from the latest archive back over and it works again until I close the game and load it again. The missing rides/attractions error is random and it randomly is missing those said files. Would it be possible that my RAID controller is cache-thrashing also as all my games are on a RAID-0 setup and the controller is a dinosaur controller (2014) as well? My whole system is using ECC as well, so perhaps something is not passing my ram correctly?

    Perhaps a bug, or filesystem incompatability

    in Problems, Bugs and Feedback

    Posted · Edited by TheKillerChicken

    I seem to be having random file corruption or missing in-game rides/attractions when loading my save. Does OpenRCT2 support the Resilient Filesystem (ReFS) at all or at least somewhat? For those not familiar with it, it is Micro$courage's approach to make a filesystem for their enterprise and server OSs that prevents bit-rotting and also increases the capacity and performance, hence the reason for using it (performance that is) I know this might be a difficult thing to assess as not everyone has an OS that support ReFS as a full-blown read/write setup. Just to add: I am using the command switch to save all of my openrct2 data on the same partition as the game itself.

    Edit Ride Stats?

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    Sorry for bumping this, but there are json files for the rides that you can edit to add +127 excitement, intensity, and/or nausea, but that is all I know about modifying the core without much coding knowledge. Heck, you can make them never crash/collide or even never have breakdowns or even have them all sheltered by modifying the jsons. Just to be aware, it does require a lot of patience to go through all of those jsons to find what you want. My suggestion for editing them: Use notepadd++ as the integrated one, at least on windows, is terrible. Also take note that they will be updated once in a while, so expect the need to re-edit them.

    Bug - Not able to get the test result of the ride

    in Problems, Bugs and Feedback

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    It can take a while depending on how powerful the processor is and if you have multi-threading enabled or not or how complex the park has become. To what I can see, your park only has 1.6, or 1.8k guests, I cannot read small text anymore, hence the educated guess. On my "guest tormentor roller coaster", it took about 30 seconds to compute the stats with something of about 60 km long with a lot of inversions, turns, and hills. I am using Xeons 2x e5-2667 v2s at 3.60Ghz, so this machine I have is a dinosaur compared to many machines now.

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    Intermittent suttering issues

    in Problems, Bugs and Feedback

    Posted · Edited by TheKillerChicken

    When I play my custom park, it seems to stutter or even hang for about 2-4 seconds and it is random, running the latest release build. I have a lot custom content also, if that helps. I am running windows 11 Enterprise IoT, if that also helps. It does not stutter at the title screen. This is a mainframe server hardware I am using for gaming, so it has SMT and NUMA, so this may be unique to my setup also.

    Change Default Folder Locations (Saved Games, Tracks, Etc.)

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    4 hours ago, TurtleShroom said:

    There is never a good reason to deny the right of the consumer to opt-out. Sawyer and Infogrames knew what they were doing, and I am pretty sure all of us who played the actual, unedited game didn't mind sharing Tracks.

    Punishing people who know what they are doing because people that don't know jack about computers MIGHT do something is a recurring theme of modern software developers, and I consider it abominable and an act of hubris. That assumption is why Microsoft permanently made almost every CD-ROM game before 2008 AD unplayable on "Windows X" because someone MIGHT expose themselves to an error on the SECDRV Driver. They gave no opt-out, and I lost many games. Society lost thousands, if not tens of thousands.  It's also why Adobe napalm bombed twenty-five years of Internet content by force, and made it straight-up prohibited to opt out. That's not to mention that Microsoft could sneak a key logger or governmental back door in any system update (and almost certainly already have), and there is no reprieve or safety. It should have been an opt-out, not an opt-in, and not giving that option to exit should be illegal. Those decisions, plus compulsory updates and no privacy, is why I've never upgraded above my "Windows VII", no matter the security risks I face for this decision.

    First and foremost, giving your program administrator permissions is not some sort of threat to your computer if you are diligent in dealing with bugs and have a program with a very, VERY narrow focus, as you do. I've ran "Open Roller Coaster Tycoon II" as an Administrator every time I've played it, for years. ORCT2 can be played offline, and if there is any exploit to take control of the computer through an ORCT2 server, no one's found it yet. Why should the ORCT2 development board act as if one exists, thereby punishing people that know what they are doing, instead of waiting for it to be discovered?

    You don't even have to automatically enable administrative positions. That assumes everyone wants to put the paths in the Infrogrames Interactive folder where they were intended to be placed. You could simply generate a notice when you change the ORCT2 to an area that would require administrator positions, stating that "ORCT2 requires administrative positions to utilize this path". That way, people can have their choice without compromising security; that wouldn't happen anyway, you designed this game far too well to make that hole easy to find. ORCT2 is a reverse-engineered version of one of the safest and most well-coded video games ever, so I doubt you're going to run into exploits unless Sawyer himself left one.

    Second, you actually believe that the precedent of writing to the Program Files is gone? Have you ever used the Steam Launcher Program? EVERYTHING in that program, including all Mods downloaded from the Steam Workshop, all custom content, all screenshots and images, and so on are ALL read AND written to the Program Files. That doesn't matter if the user is a Guest or an Administrator, or anyone else in between. Is Valve working against the OS? Is Ludeon ("Rimworld's" creator) working against the OS?

    If there is some security prevention blocking writing data to the Program Files, I've never seen it in my twenty-five years of computing, unless my user account was deliberately restricted like the Guests, or otherwise blocked via things like the Group Policy Editor. For an example of a very recent game that writes to the Program Files folder on ANY account, refer to "Rimworld", which stores all Mods in either the Steam Workshop.

    I think that people who download your game should be allowed to decide where the folders go, AND decide what the names of the folders are. If a person wants their Tracks folder on their "I" drive and their "Saved Games" folder in the My Documents folder, that should be permitted.

     

     

    Absolutely not. The My Documents Folder is defined in the Registry, just like My Pictures, My Music, and my Videos. A failture to locate them causes your User Profile to get corrupted. You have to create a new user with a working path to get back in and change the Registry for the locked out account.

     

     

    Thank you for that.

    It's a fantastic start, but it appears that it doesn't allow me to change the NAME of the folders. I would still have bloated, duplicitous folders because of this silly restriction.

    Here is the thing with Micro$courage: They control the courts both U.S. and Internationally. If anyone tries to go up against them, they can simply shut down the world or simply even weaponise the computers with windows 8.1 and newer due to the cortana integration. I brute-force removed all of that from my Windows 10 Installation and also use Untangle Unified Threat Management OS and Pi-Hole (both Linux Kernels) and blocked off anything to do with windows update and any hidden telemetry. My suggestion, if you don't like the windows setup, go with Linux (Ubuntu or Linux Mint are recommended) or even MacOS.

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