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Lego Creator: Harry Potter

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Lego Creator: Harry Potter
Lego Creator: Harry Potter cover
Developers
Superscape
Publishers
Lego Media
Engines
Superscape Virtual Reality toolkit
Release dates
Windows November 5, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Free-roaming camera
Controls Menu-based
Genres Building
Series Lego Creator
Lego Creator: Harry Potter on MobyGames
Lego Creator
Subseries of Lego
Lego Creator 1998
Lego Creator: Knights' Kingdom 2000
Lego Creator: Harry Potter 2002
Creator: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002

Key points

Has problems running on Windows Vista and above. See Issues fixed and Issues unresolved.

General information

Brickipedia - A detailed wiki for everything Lego-related.
Rock Raiders United - A fan forum for all of the classic Lego games.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 Simple disc check.
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Skip intro video

Delete or rename intro video file
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Videos.
  2. Delete or rename the lmiintro.avi file.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\options.ocf[Note 1]

Save game data location

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

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Forced 800x600 resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
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)
Install dgVoodoo2 to the 3D Control folder.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Only during levels.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Swedish
German

Issues unresolved

  • Forced 800x600 resolution.
  • Cutscenes often don't work, setting 16-bit colour compatibility can help. (Alt+F4 skips cutscenes).
  • Screen can go black when clicking ActiveX objects (for e.g. minifigs or cannons).
  • ClearType is often turned off when starting the game, making text pixelated in Windows. ClearType has to be re-enabled manually.

Issues fixed

Graphical issues on newer versions of Windows

Use dgVoodoo 2
Fixes white textures/graphics in hardware/GPU mode.
  1. Navigate to the LEGO Media\LEGO Creator Harry Potter\3D Control path.
  2. Apply dgVoodoo2 to the 3D Control folder, where the ss3dlego2001.exe executable is located.
  3. Run the game, open the settings (by clicking the wrench icon) and make sure the graphics card icon (not the PC icon) is selected.

Game crashes upon launch

Run game as administrator
  1. Right-click the CreatorHP.exe at <path-to-game>. From the drop-down menu, select Properties.
  2. Once the window is open, select the Compatibility tab.
  3. Select Run this program as an administrator and Apply changes.
  4. Run the game.

Windows XP on Modern Hardware Installation Problem

Limit MaxMem
  1. Press Windows Button + R and then type msconfig.
  2. Choose the Tab boot.ini and click on Advanced Options.
  3. Check the MaxMem box and leave it on the default 2048.
  4. After installation, repeat the steps and uncheck it.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 2, 3 The game loads d3d8.dll but apparently only uses its interfaces when exiting the game.[1]
DirectDraw 7
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Interface ActiveX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 266 MHz Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 8 compatible
Other 4x CD-ROM drive DirectMusic-compatible Software Synthesizer
8x CD-ROM drive


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).

References

  1. ↑ Verified by User:Eddmanx on 2024-03-13