Lego Rock Raiders
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Developers | |
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Data Design Interactive | |
Publishers | |
Lego Media | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 15, 1999 |
Taxonomy | |
Series | Lego |
⤏ Go to series page | |
Lego Island (series) | |
Lego Loco | 1998 |
Lego Chess | 1998 |
Lego Creator (series) | |
Lego Friends | 1999 |
Lego Racers (series) | |
Lego Rock Raiders | 1999 |
Lego My Style (series) | |
Legoland | 2000 |
Lego Alpha Team | 2000 |
Lego Stunt Rally | 2000 |
Soccer Mania | 2002 |
Bionicle (series) | |
Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension | 2003 |
Lego Star Wars (series) | |
Lego Indiana Jones (series) | |
Lego Batman (series) | |
Lego Harry Potter (series) | |
Lego Universe | 2010 |
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game | 2011 |
Lego Middle-earth (series) | |
Lego Legends of Chima Online | 2013 |
Lego Marvel (series) | |
The Lego Movie (series) | |
Lego Minifigures Online | 2014 |
Lego Jurassic World | 2015 |
Lego Worlds | 2017 |
Lego City Undercover | 2017 |
Lego The Incredibles | 2018 |
Lego Legacy: Heroes Unboxed | 2019 |
Lego Brawls | 2019 |
Lego Builder's Journey | 2019 |
Lego Bricktales | 2022 |
Lego 2K Drive | 2023 |
Lego Horizon Adventures | 2024 |
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Key points
- Can be modded.
- Unstable and very difficult to run on modern machines, see Installing and running the game on modern Windows.
General information
- Manic Miners is a remake of Rock Raiders on the Unreal Engine.
- Brickipedia - A detailed wiki for everything Lego-related.
- Rock Raiders United - A fan forum for all of the classic Lego games. Mods and utilities can be downloaded from here, but an account is required.
- Rock Raiders United Knowledge Base - A detailed wiki for Rock Raiders and some other older Lego games.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | The original 1999 release of the game uses SafeDisc V1 DRM[Note 1]. | |||
Retail | The 2001 Lego Masterpiece reissue and all later releases are DRM-free. |
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- The game is not available digitally.
Version differences
- Re-release versions, such as the LEGO Masterpiece version, are DRM-free and don't require the CD to play, but the game's soundtrack will not play as it is Redbook audio-based.
Essential improvements
Installing and running the game on modern Windows
- Depending on the operating system and hardware the game may run fine already after installation, or all the following steps may be needed to make it run. Before proceeding with any step run the game to test if it works first.
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>[Note 2] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lego Media\Games\Rock Raiders[Note 3] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Data\Save[Note 2] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Any resolution higher than 640x480 crashes the game. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Zoom in/out is available in top down view. | ||
Windowed | See Command line parameters. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See Command line parameters. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | No frame rate cap. Some 2d animations look faster but gameplay is fine. |
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High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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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 |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music and sound effects. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Red Book CD audio | On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Czech | Czech only release. Published by Cenega. | |||
Polish | Polish only release. Published by Cenega. | |||
Dutch | Spanish, Italian and Dutch were sold in a separate release. | |||
Italian | Spanish, Italian and Dutch were sold in a separate release. | |||
Spanish | Spanish, Italian and Dutch were sold in a separate release. | |||
Danish | Danish only release. | |||
Norwegian | Included in Danish release. | |||
Swedish | Included in Danish release. | |||
German | German only release. | |||
French | Included in German release. | |||
Portuguese | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | EA Brasil.[3] | |||
Hebrew | Hebrew only release. Text is displayed right-to-left. Published by Hed Arzi. | |||
Russian | Russian only release. Published by Noviy Disk. | |||
Japanese | Japanese only release. Published by Eidos Interactive. | |||
Korean | Speech is in English. Published by SsangYong. |
Issues fixed
"The program can't start because d3drm.dll is missing" error
Add d3drm.dll to the installation folder[citation needed] |
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"No DirectX 3D accelerator could be found"
- This also fixes cutscenes not playing and a low FPS issue.
Setup the game compatibility settings[citation needed] |
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Crash when launching the game
Force the game to emulate RGB for Voodoo 2 cards[citation needed] |
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The installer on the CD doesn't work
Use alternate installer[citation needed] |
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Extract the game files manually[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 6 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Command line parameters
- See command line arguments on how to use the following options.
- A full list is available at the Rock Raiders United Knowledge Base, but here are the major ones:
Parameter | Description |
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-cleansaves | Deletes all saved games. |
-programmer | Allows the LEGO Media movie to be skipped. |
-fpslock | Enables VSync. |
-testlevels | Unlocks every level. |
-window | Allows the game to be launched in a window when in 16-bit color mode. |
-best | Disables the Mode selection window on launch. |
-ftm | This makes the video card use all available texture memory. Also turns off game lighting. Lighting still affects game models. |
-fvf | Causes models and level terrain in the distance to fade into a gradual fog effect rather than cutting off abruptly at the draw distance boundary. |
-debug | Allows resolutions up to 1024x768, but crashes on everything greater than 640x480. |
-reducesamples | Disables some non-streamed sound effects. |
- Original game installer would create two shortcuts:
- LEGO Rock Raiders - Standard with parameters
-best -reducesamples -reduceanimation -reducepromeshes -reduceflics -reduceimages
. - LEGO Rock Raiders - Enhanced with parameters
-best
.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium MMX 200 MHz | Intel Pentium II MMX 400 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | 64 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 150 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.1 compatible | 32 MB of VRAM |
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]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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). - ↑ Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for 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
- ↑ Novo Milênio, 14/05/2001 (archived)