So I was starting up Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 to finish a park I was building...and guess what? I've been TRYING to fix the controls for EXACTLY two hours time.

That's right. The keyboard has permanently stopped responding to my game. >_> Anybody ever had this problem? And if so, what are your suggestions? Aside from sending a very "colorful" email to Atari...considering I'm enraged that I might have to buy a new copy of the game.

What did you do to try to fix the problem?

Well usually when the keyboard stops responding, all I have to is one of three things:
1. Exit the game and re-boot it.
2. Open the CD Drive and close it back
3. Restart the computer.

I did all three of those things for two hours straight and the keyboard wouldn't respond. I have most of the default controls set like Q and E rotate the camera and Page Up/Page Down zoom in and out. The only controls I changed when I installed the game were to take movies and snapshots. This happens regularly but usually after doing one of the above three mentioned things once the problem is fixed, the controls start responding again and I can play like normal.

But this is the first time the fixes have never worked.

You'll find some helpful comments in this thread:

http://forums.rctgo.com/thread-7428-post...l#pid83894

Sounds all good. Thanks for that, I'll try it