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Laura's Happy Adventures

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Laura's Happy Adventures
Laura's Happy Adventures cover
Developers
Ubisoft Montreal
Publishers
Playmobil Interactive
Engines
Ubisoft OpenSpace
Release dates
Windows 1998
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Adventure
Art styles Stylized
Themes Fantasy, Victorian
Series Playmobil
Laura's Happy Adventures on IGDB
Laura's Happy Adventures on MobyGames
Laura's Happy Adventures on Wikipedia
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Laura's Happy Adventures is a singleplayer third-person adventure game in the Playmobil series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Simple disc check.
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %WINDIR%\UbiSoft\ubi.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Gamedata\SaveGame[Note 1]

Video

Ubisoft Configuration Tool (Original)
Ubisoft Configuration Tool (Original)
Ubisoft Configuration Tool (Pentium 3 Release)
Ubisoft Configuration Tool (Pentium 3 Release)

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See this page.
Multi-monitor
See this page.
Ultra-widescreen
See this page.
4K Ultra HD
See this page.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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)
Always on in Direct3D. In Glide, use nGlide and set in nglide_config.exe, or use dgVoodoo 2.
60 FPS
Frame rate is capped at 63 FPS in Glide. Animations are locked at 30 FPS, however only in the Pentium 3 version, their framerate can be increased by turning on Use Animation Interpolation in <path-to-game>\UBIConfig.exe.
120+ FPS
Runs too fast.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Audio

Sound settings.
Sound settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Voices and Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Laura et le secret du diamant[1]
German
Laura und das Geheimnis des Diamanten[1]
Italian
Laura e il Segreto del Diamante[1]
Brazilian Portuguese
Laura e o Segredo do Diamante.[2]
Portuguese
Retail only.
Spanish
Laura y el secreto del diamante[1]
Simplified Chinese

Issues fixed

Install the game in Direct3D mode

By default, the game does not let you select the Direct3D mode to install on modern operating systems claiming that a different Windows NT system is missing.
Use Windows 98/ME compatibility mode[3]
  1. Enable the following compatibility settings for Setup.exe: Windows 98/ME.
  2. Run Setup.exe and in the installation method select "DirectX Full Installation".
  3. In the software testing option, uncheck the Microsoft DirectX option, otherwise the installation will fail when trying to install DirectX.
  4. Click install and proceed with the installation normally.

Stuck in Ubisoft Logo Loading (Direct3D mode)

Use dgVoodoo 2[4]

Ramdom Crashes (Direct3D/Glide mode)

Don't run the game from the run shortcut directly from the executable it's installed from

Game runs too fast (Direct3D mode)

Set refresh rate on 60 Hz[5]

Game crashes on Alt+Tab

Use dgVoodoo2[6]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
Glide 3.10
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 87 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 MobyGames
  2. Divertire (archived) - last accessed on 17 May 2023
  3. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-07-02
  4. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-01-27
  5. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-01-27
  6. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-01-27