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Lego Creator

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Lego Creator
Lego Creator cover
Developers
Superscape
Publishers
Lego Media
Engines
Superscape Virtual Reality toolkit
Release dates
Windows November 11, 1998
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 guide on StrategyWiki
Lego Creator on MobyGames
Lego Creator on Wikipedia
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

Warnings

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

Key points

Limited graphics options
Older versions of the game are difficult to run on modern machines, see Issues fixed.

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)
Original releases use SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].
Windows
Retail
DRM-free with some exceptions (notes may include more details)
Releases from the 2001 LEGO Masterpiece reissue onwards. Watching the video tutorials requires the disc unless you use the "full" option when installing the game.
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
This game is not available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Content\mymodels
<path-to-game>\Content\myworlds
[Note 2]

Video

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
By default.
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
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Dutch
French
German
Japanese
Published by Eidos Interactive.
Polish
Published by Cenega.
Brazilian Portuguese
[3]
Russian
Published by Noviy Disk.

Issues fixed

Graphical issues on newer versions of Windows

Use dgVoodoo 2
Fixes white textures/graphics in hardware/GPU mode.
  1. Download the latest version of dgVoodoo 2 and extract the archive.
  2. Open the MS\x86 folder and copy D3D8.dll, D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll files.
  3. Paste the files into the game installation folder under the 3D Control folder, where the ss3dlego.exe executable is.
  4. Run the game and click the "Software" button to enable "Hardware" acceleration in the options.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 85 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA-compatible card


Notes

  1. 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]
  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