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Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7

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Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7
Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 cover
Developers
Traveller's Tales
Publishers
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
OS X Feral Interactive
Engines
Nu2
Release dates
Windows November 11, 2011
macOS (OS X) March 22, 2012
Reception
Metacritic 80
IGDB 76
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Cinematic camera
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Adventure
Vehicles Automobile, Flight
Themes Contemporary, Fantasy
Series Lego Harry Potter
Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 on HowLongToBeat
Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 on IGDB
Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 guide on StrategyWiki
Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 on MobyGames
Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 on Wikipedia
Lego Harry Potter
Subseries of Harry Potter
Subseries of Lego
Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 2010
Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 2011

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 is a singleplayer and multiplayer cinematic camera action and adventure game in the Lego Harry Potter series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 8.04.0014 and SecuROM DFA DRM.
Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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macOS (OS X)

Downloadable content (DLC)

The Downloadable Character Pack and 5 Spell Pack DLCs was never released for the PC version, although Downloadable Character Pack can be modded into the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\WB Games\LEGO Harry Potter 2\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/204120/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\WB Games\LEGO Harry Potter 2\SavedGames\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7/SavedGames/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/204120/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings
Video settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Gameplay is 21:9 but the HUD is 16:9 stretched.[1]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See Windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Tied to texture quality setting.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Edge FSAA.
Nvidia users can force SGSSAA in Nvidia Profile Inspector with the 0x004010C1 anti-aliasing flag; no LOD adjustment is necessary. The "AA Fix" is required when shaders are set to Medium or High.[2]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
On, Off, or 30Hz (Half Refresh Rate)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No frame rate or refresh rate cap.[3][4]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Windowed

Force windowed[5]
  1. Download and run DxWnd.
  2. Click on Edit and Add.
  3. Set the path to <path-to-game>\harry2.exe.
  4. Set the desired window position and size.
  5. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed.
  6. Click OK, then File and Save.

Input

Input settings
Input settings

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Only Master volume; Music can be toggled.
Surround sound
Up to 5.1
Subtitles
There is no voice acting beyond grunting.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Digital releases only show EFGIS as supported languages, but it is possible to switch to other languages using the command line arguments.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Set the -language czech argument in game's properties for the digital releases.
Danish
Set the -language danish argument in game's properties for the digital releases.
Dutch
Set the -language dutch argument in game's properties for the digital releases.
French
German
Italian
Polish
Set the -language polish argument in game's properties for the digital releases.
Brazilian Portuguese
Set the -language brazilian argument in game's properties for the digital releases.
Russian
Set the -language russian argument in game's properties for the digital releases.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

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

Issues unresolved

Control bindings reset upon game restart

This can affect keyboard users adversely due to an unusual default control scheme.[6]

Stuttering or low framerate

The game's framerate can be unstable for a few seconds when entering new areas, most noticeably in Diagon Alley, The Leaky Cauldron and London map. This presents itself as a halved framerate if Vsync is enabled, or as stuttering if Vsync is disabled, and can occur even after a loading screen is finished.[7]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
32-bit only.[8]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz Dual Core
Intel Pentium D
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6800, 7600, 8-series
ATI Radeon X1950
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3 support
Controller
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 7 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/204120/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (204120) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Imgur - last accessed on May 2023
  2. NVidia Profile Inspector - AA Flags - last accessed on May 2023
  3. New 120Hz Games Report - last accessed on May 2023
  4. Verified by User:Keith on 2017-09-18
    The game natively runs at 120 Hz
  5. Verified by User:Keith on 2017-09-18
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 LHP Years 5-7 - contols bug fixed or not? (FOR GOG STAFF), page 1 - Forum - GOG.com
  7. Verified by User:SirYodaJedi on 2023-03-22
    Particularly annoying; it's like the script initialization is too CPU-heavy. I tried reducing my monitor's refresh rate to 40 Hz (since the game is designed for 30 FPS on consoles, and Nu2's optional 30FPS cap on PC has horrid frame pacing), but that just made the stutters more noticeable. Will test with Vsync disabled, as well as with an external cap. It's definitely a CPU bottleneck, though; I can run Lego Pirates and Lego Batman 2 at 4K with no issues.
    And no, it's not shader compilation; shaders are cached, and this happens even when revisiting an area.
  8. Last chance to buy these Mac classics! | Feral News