Lego City Undercover

Lego City Undercover

Developers
	TT Fusion
Publishers
	TT Games
	Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Engines
	Nu2
Release dates
Windows	April 4, 2017
Reception
Metacritic	80
OpenCritic	77
IGDB	77
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Cinematic camera, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Adventure, Open world
Vehicles	Automobile, Flight
Themes	Contemporary
Series	Lego

Lego City Undercover is a singleplayer and multiplayer cinematic camera and third-person action, adventure and open world game in the Lego series.

Key points

Reports indicate PC port to have multiple optimisation issues and game breaking bugs.

Changes art style and lacks some lighting effects in comparison to the Wii U version.

Use LEGO City Recovered to fix multi-threading performance problems.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam
Amazon.com (unavailable)
GamersGate (unavailable)

All versions require Steam DRM.

Essential improvements

Skip intro postcards

Set postcards to 0
Download and extract DATManager. Run it Browse to <path-to-game> and extract the relevant (or all) .DAT file(s) In the GUI folder locate CITYSPLASHSCREENS.TXT Open the text file and set Splash_NumberOfPostcards 6 to 0

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment\LEGO City Undercover\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/578330/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Steam	<Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\578330\remote\savedgames\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/578330/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.

Effects settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Can't set resolutions other than 1280x720.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Set Aspect Ratio to From Screen-Res. Some HUD elements are stretched or clipped. Cutscenes are Vert-.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		By default; use LEGO City Recovered to re-enable Fullscreen Exclusive mode.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FSAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS		Frame rate is capped at 60 FPS, but you can set 144hz and higher on your monitor, which will make picture look smooth (no microstutter on win10).[citation needed] FMVs are prerendered at 30 FPS.
120+ FPS		Use LEGO City Recovered to uncap the frame rate. See Issues fixed to set refresh rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Disable Vsync in Special K[citation needed]
Install LEGO City Recovered. Open dxgi.ini. Change PresentationInterval=1 to PresentationInterval=0 to disable.

Input

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Mouse not used in game.
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

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music On/Off and Audio Volume
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

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

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: LEGO City Undercover (DX11).

Issues unresolved

Can't accept video setting changes from main menu

Use ingame menu instead

Issues fixed

Can't set resolutions other than 1280x720

Set resolution and refresh rate manually
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open pcconfig.txt. Change ScreenWidth and ScreenHeight to the desired resolution width and height respectively. Change ScreenRefreshRate to the desired refresh rate value (default 60).

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	8, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-760 2.8 GHz AMD Athlon X4 740 3.2 GHz	Intel Core i7-950 3.0 GHz AMD FX-6100 3.3 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	18 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti ATI Radeon HD 5850 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon HD 7850 2 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.