You had to have the game manual handy so you could answer questions that would allow you to play the game. One other thing to note: the game utilized what was called a ‘manual’ based copy protection scheme. Because the original game was a DOS game, 2KGames has included DOSBox so the game can play under a modern operating system. Go here and you’ll find the link along the bottom set of boxes. While looking at the web site for Railroads!, I noticed that they are offering the original Railroad Tycoon as freebie. It’s, apparently, a memory management issue too. And, by the way, this is the first ‘modern’ game I’ve encountered that has a real issue with Windows 7. Since XP is, thankfully, a dead operating system and most people will have Vista or Windows 7, Steam is doing a disservice by not at least warning us about these issues. Those two things help quite a bit.Īnyway, my problem with Steam here is that they did not post anything about the compatibility issue. I save my progress frequently.īy the way, one way to help cut down the crash issue is to not lay lots of track at one time and to right click the mouse immediately after building a station. For me, the game is so addictive that I can get past the occasional game crash. Running the game windowed seems to help quite a bit but the problem will come up. A few users posted some things they do to help the problem, but does not fix it. There is an unofficial patch, but it involves a hacked exe file and I’m just not into that. Unfortunately, there is no patch to fix the problem and none planned from 2KGames. Perusing the forums, I found I was not alone in this. Nowhere does it say this and Steam does not believe in refunds. I was able to re-download them and enjoy them again, so kudos to them for that.īUT…Railroads is a buggy game that is not entirely compatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7. Steam is an interesting delivery mechanism and, apparently, keeps all of my purchases as part of my ‘account’ because the games I had gotten years ago were still there. I thought it would run better on my current machine so I bought it. I remember trying out the demo a few years ago but it was sluggish on the machine I had at the time. Over the last couple of months, I have purchased a few games from the Star Wars genre (first person flight games, mostly.) Every time I looked through the cheap games or at the bundles, I’d see these railroad games. I let it sit for a long time before trying it again. I joined Steam a couple of years ago due to a promotion they had with ATI. Over the last few days, however, I discovered another game in the same genre that I really like: Sid Meier’s Railroads!. I also dug out my Railroad Tycoon 3 game and installed it on my primary computer. It is the first game that I reloaded on my recently rebuilt HP DV6253 laptop. Recently, I rediscovered my love of Railroad Tycoon 2. I especially love simulation type games like Sim City, Rollercoaster Tycoon and Railroad Tycoon 2.
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