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Lego Star Wars: The Video Game

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Key points

The game lacks an FPS limiter and causes problems when playing at frame rates higher than 40 FPS. See Gameplay issues to fix this issue.
Lego Star Wars: The Video Game
Lego Star Wars: The Video Game cover
Developers
Traveller's Tales
macOS (OS X) i5works[1][2]
Publishers
Eidos Interactive
LucasArts
OS X Aspyr Media
Russia Noviy Disk[3]
Engines
Nu2
Release dates
Windows April 2, 2005
macOS (OS X) August 23, 2005
Reception
Metacritic 77
IGDB 80
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Cinematic camera
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Adventure
Vehicles Space flight, Hovercraft
Themes Space, Sci-fi
Series Lego Star Wars
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Lego Star Wars
Subseries of Lego
Subseries of Star Wars
Lego Star Wars: The Video Game 2005
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy 2006
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga 2009
Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars 2011
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2016
Lego Star Wars Battles 2021
Lego Star Wars: Castaways 2021
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 2022

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Lego Star Wars: The Video Game is a singleplayer and multiplayer cinematic camera action and adventure game in the Lego Star Wars series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 7 DRM disc check
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Retail
DRM-free
CD-ROM; used only for installation.
Windows
Not sold digitally due to the release of The Complete Saga containing this and the next game's content together.
A demo is available.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest patch is Version 1.0.0.2. This fixes the bug of the CD-ROM copy of the game not being able to run.
The latest patch for the OS X version is Version 1.0 Rev A.[4]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SWLEGO.BIN[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\lsw_*[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
* is the save slot number starting at zero.

Video

Video settings
Video settings
Advanced video settings; only available after booting into a save game at least once[Note 2]
Advanced video settings; only available after booting into a save game at least once[Note 2]

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Stretched output by default. To fix it, use the Widescreen Fix.
Multi-monitor
Use the Widescreen Fix.
Ultra-widescreen
Use the Widescreen Fix.
4K Ultra HD
Use the Widescreen Fix.
Field of view (FOV)
Uses fixed camera angles.
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Nvidia users can force antialiasing in Nvidia Profile Inspector using the 0x000000C0 antialiasing compatibly flag.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Input setup, with default keybinds
Input setup, with default keybinds

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music on/off
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Music may randomly play. Prone to freezing on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Spoken dialogue is infrequent and inconsequential.
Czech
Dutch
French
German
Japanese
Japanese release only.
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
Shared-screen.
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Running in Windows 7+

Take ownership of <path-to-game>[5]
Install the game patch 1.0.0.2 to potentially fix the bug of the game not running. This works on the CD-ROM version.

Gameplay issues

Problems may happen in-game. The problems are, but aren't limited to: reduced jump height, not being able to travel to the next area, and AI not being able to jump. If these problems happen, you're likely playing the game at a frame rate higher than 40 FPS.[citation needed]

Lock the max frame rate of the game to 40 FPS within your graphics card's control panel.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Install the version 1.0 Rev A patch for Intel CPU support. Still limited to 32-bit only.[citation needed]

Mods

Bug-fixes and restored content

Audio enhancements

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.0 GHz
AMD Athlon XP equivalent
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
Shader model 1.1 support
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.5
Processor (CPU) PowerPC G4/G5 1.2 GHz
Intel 1.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 9000
Nvidia GeForce FX 5200
32 MB of VRAM
Nvidia GeForce 9400M and GeForce 4 MX cards are not supported.
Intel integrated video chipsets (including GMA 950) are not supported.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. Bumpmapping setting does not work properly on modern hardware, resulting in characters being shaded with improper lighting.
  3. This game was developed alongside Episode III and released over a month before the movie, so TT Games did not have access to the soundtrack in time for release. They were able to fix this for the compilation game, but only did so for the gameplay background music and not the cutscenes.

References

  1. Aspyr to publish LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game - Macworld - last accessed on 2016-7-23
  2. Lego Star Wars: The Video Game In Stores Now For Mac - last accessed on 2016-7-23
  3. LEGO Star Wars - last accessed on 2023-02-18
  4. Aspyr - Support - last accessed on 2007-08-12
  5. Verified by User:SirYodaJedi on 2019-11-30
    Confirmed working with demo on Win10 1903 with my laptop.