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Lego Chess

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Lego Chess
Lego Chess cover
Developers
Krisalis Software
Publishers
Lego Media
Release dates
Windows February 4, 1998
Lego Chess guide on StrategyWiki
Lego Chess on MobyGames
Lego Chess on Wikipedia
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Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
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Key points

Installer is 16-bit only, but a workaround is available. See Running the game on 64-bit Windows.

General information

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Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 Requires disc to be present.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Two official patches are available. Install the Version 2.06B_int Update Patch and then ChessCDFix.exe.

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\profiles[Note 1]

Video settings

External options screen (only accessible via the /video command line argument).
External options screen (only accessible via the /video command line argument).
In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

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Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Hot seat
LAN play
2
Online play
2

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Running the game on 64-bit Windows

Although the game installer is 16-bit, the actual game is 32-bit. The only way to play it is to use an alternate installer:

Installing the game via alternate installer

Setting up the game with an alternate installer[citation needed]
  1. Somewhere on the computer (ex. the Desktop), create a new folder called "SETUP".
  2. Copy the contents of the Lego Chess CD and paste them into the folder that was created before.
  3. When everything has finished copying, go to <Setup Folder> and delete the SETUP.EXE file.
  4. Download the generic 32-bit installer and add it to the folder.
  5. Run the installer and follow the on-screen instructions.
  6. Once the installer has finished, download the missing text file and add it to <path-to-game>.
  7. Run the Lego Chess.exe file to play the game.

Game crashes on startup

Use nGlide[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D
Glide
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz Intel Pentium II
System memory (RAM) 16 MB 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 25 MB 200 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA video card
4 MB of VRAM

Notes

  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).

References