Can't Play Soaked Campaigns?

[Clefairy]

Hello,

I have been playing RCT3 a lot lately and recently finished the original campaign. I'm trying to move onto Soaked now, but every time I make a new campaign file and open it I get this message:

"Failed to open file. It may be set to read-only, you may have insufficient rights, or the hard disk may be full."

Now if I start the game and load my original campaign, it all works fine and I can load and save properly. But if I ever attempt to play the Soaked campaign, I'll get that message, and from then-on-out I can't save or load in any mode until I restart the game. I've tried addressing all three issues it theorizes - I ensured the file wasn't set to read-only, I ran as administrator, and cleaned up stuff off my hard drive even though it wasn't that close to being full, all to no avail. I also tried some other measures, such as running in compatibility mode.

Just now, I tried starting the Wild campaign, but for this one I can't even create a file and just get the same error instantly as soon as I hit the button. So essentially, it only allows me to play the campaign of the original game properly. I am playing on a 64-bit Windows 7 system. Does anybody know how to fix this? Thanks!

EDIT: For whatever reason, now I'm also getting it when I try to play the original campaign or a custom scenario.. just about everything now. Once I even got it right when I started the game up.

EDIT 2: What I said in the above edit actually only seems to happen rarely, for whatever reason. Usually it functions as I described prior to the edit.

[Crazed Possum]

Is your hard drive full ?

[Clefairy]

No, it's got 81.9 GB left. I even uninstalled some things just to make sure even though it's always had plenty.

[Crazed Possum]

are you running the RCT3 as Administrator? as in the RCT3Plus execution file located in the Steam directory as Administrator? that might be the reason.

C\program files (x86)\Steam\Steamapps\Common\Rollercoaster tycoon 3 Gold\ scroll down to a file called.....RCT3plus and right click on it and choose properties and then compatability tab and make sure it has a check mark on run as administrator....that may do it....maybe.

May also want to run Steam's executable as administrator also....

[Clefairy]

I've tried running Steam as administrator, running RCT3 as administrator, running both as administrator, and running neither as administrator - nothing seems to fix the issue. As I said in the opening post, I basically tried a fix to every one of the problems stated in the error message. I have a feeling that whatever's causing it isn't actually related to any of those suggestions.

[Clefairy]

Okay, so after days of on-again off-again attempted fixes to this issue, I finally figured out the problem today: anyone else who is experiencing the problem ought to consider this. What happened was that after I completed the original campaign, I made a ZIP file to send in an e-mail to myself to back up my save data with. Stupidly, I named this ZIP file "RCT3.zip," and it appears that the game had been confusing that with the RCT3 folder it was supposed to be saving to. All I had to do was delete the similarly named zip file (renaming ought to work too) and it has worked since. :)