Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair
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Developers | |
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Dragonstone Software | |
Publishers | |
Ubi Soft | |
Engines | |
Genesis3D | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 17, 2002 |
Taxonomy | |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Genres | Platform |
Series | Dragon's Lair |
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Availability
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save[Note 2] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | See the WSGF entry. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Only supports: 640x480, 800x600 & 800x450 in windowed mode. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
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) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Subtitles are only available during gameplay. Cutscenes don't have subtitles at all, both in-game and pre-rendered cutscenes. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX 2 and A3D 2.0. | |
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Spanish |
Issues fixed
Game refuses to run on Windows Vista and later even with disc inserted
- This issue is caused by SafeDisc retail DRM as it no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later.
- Luckily this issue is fixable through various methods which are listed here: How-To Geek & here: Windows Report.
Game has no music during gameplay & no audio in cutscenes
- This issue is caused by lack of EAX support in Windows Vista and later.
- Luckily this issue can be fixed pretty easily. Follow this video guide to fix the issue: YouTube.
Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98, ME, 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 300 MHz AMD K6-III 400 |
Intel Pentium III 800 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | 128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 700 MB | 1.5 GB |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible | |
Sound (audio device) | DirectX 8.1 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16