So i just bought RCT and i can't get it to run, I have tried everything from support and google searching. I run windows 7 64-bit and i have no clue what to do. Can anybody give me a step by step guide on what to do or any things i can fix?

Any further info you can provide would be useful. For example, is it starting and then crashing, is it not starting at all, is it just black screening?

You're going to have to give more information. I too am using Windows 7 64-Bit and it runs just fine.

I'm going to guess that there's a program running on your machine that handles volume control via keyboard shortcuts and it displays the volume change via a GUI overlay. It's this overlay that is likely causing the trouble.

These GUI overlay apps are common on laptops and netbooks and are specific to the Laptop vendor and sometimes specific to the model of laptop. See if you can identify the process for the GUI overlay and kill it in task manager. You wont be able to change volume with key presses any more but you can still change it via Control Panel or the System Tray.

I have one on my netbook but thankfully it never steals focus or prevents any other graphical layers from functioning.

how would i go about identifying/getting rid of the volume gui?

To try and help you I tried to do it myself. I couldn't find any particular process running that provided the functionality. I then thought about how the Launcher is supposed to kill the explorer.exe processes.

So I came up with the theory that the GUI is in fact a shell extension and runs when explorer runs. When I killed the explorer process, the volume interface stopped appearing.


If you haven't already tried, run the game using Launcher.exe. If you can't do that because that causes other problems then try killing explorer manually and then running RCT.exe. You can do both of these steps in Task manager. Or do it from a command window...

Start>Run>type CMD (XP Pro)
or
Start>type CMD (Vista/Win7)

Then in the command window

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
C:\Program Files\GOGcom\RollerCoaster Tycoon Deluxe\RCT.exe


To get Explorer running again either

type explorer (in the command window)

or

New Task...>>type explorer (in Task Manager)

well i got it to run. I'm not really sure what i did i just started using RCT.exe for the 1000th time and it worked and is continuing to work but thank you very much for the help

I'm having the exact same issue. I open the launcher and it gives me a black screen with the cursor. If I hold alt-tab it shows the game's menu running just fine, but if I'm just on it I get the black screen.

Win7 64bit.

Starting to look like an application focus issue. ITry continually alt-tabbing to the game and then clicking on the screen regardless of what you can see. I have seen behaviour like this happen when I launch a game from Steam but switch focus to another app before it runs, the continual alt-tabbing usually fixes it.

If you do get into the game, you may want to change it to windowed mode before exiting, it will then boot in windowed mode.

I figured out that I could click around by holding alttab and got myself into windowed mode that way. Solved it for me, still confusing at why it doesn't work in full screen though.

The game won't work at all for me - if I run launcher.exe from the shortcut I see a brief flash of something coming up in command prompt, then I immediately get a window which says closing Railrood Tycoon. That's it. Tried this using RCT.exe as well, and also using a command prompt - same results either way, using Windows 7.

i figured out what i did i just ran it in compatibility mode for windows vista, and just that no other settings.

Well I just tried it with Windows Vista, SP1 and SP2 compatibility mode - no change for my issue.

do you have just a vista with no service pack?