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Hello i am a new member and i am having some difficulty running Rock Raiders.

I have been reading a lot of the forums on this site and through those forums i have been able to successfully install Rock Raiders. However when I go to run the game i get a solid black screen, no audio and nothing loads. I even booted into my XP SP3 partition and time the LEGO Media Video to be approx 4:30 even after waiting for this this video nothing loads.

I have tried setting the display to 16-bit color, this resulted in LegoRR has stopped working. I get this same result in window mode as well as with the Microsoft Application Compatability tool-kit. I am not sure what else to try.

Oh and yes i had to copy the d3drm.dll to both the system32 folder as well as the RockRaiders directory.

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on a lenovo W500.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Try all the stuff like running in compatability mode for XP or 98, run as admin, run in 256 colors, etc.

But really I'm not to good with technical stuff so wait for others while you at least try these.

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The funny thing is that if your screen isn't in 16bit color mode, it will set it to 16bit, along with resizing to whatever bloody resolution it uses. First thing first, take -best out of the shortcut you may or may not be using to launch the game. I don't use Win7 so Cyrem Cirevam might be able to help better than I can.

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I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, and I run LRR with the following settings:

Shortcut parameters: -best -programmer -fvf -debug -debugcomplete -testlevels

Compatibility: Windows 2000

256 colors

Programmer allows you to skip the intro movies by pressing any key, so you might want to try that. You can ignore the last three parameters since -testlevels unlocks all levels and the debug ones probably don't do anything anyways. Another thing I can suggest is not using the Enhanced shortcut. Try the Standard one since that adds -reduceframes -reduceflics -reduceimages which may help you once you can get past the movies. Otherwise, I don't know if I can help any more than that since every time I install LRR on a Win7 computer it just works.

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Just for clarification, -best disables the startup prompt that LRR has. With -best, the game just launches; without, it brings up a prompt with a few options that probably won't help unless you want windowed mode.

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I know that most people find this to not work, but I've had some luck with enhanced mode on Windows XP, while standard causes the game to freeze on startup. You have Windows 7 Ultimate, so try downloading XP Mode (with Virtual Machine) and running it in enhanced mode.

If that doesn't work, I suggest installing Ubuntu 10.10 and Grub through Wubi and running it with WINE. If I can't get something to work for me in Windows, I usually can get it to work in Linux with WINE.

An interesting thing I've noticed about LEGO Rock Raiders is that everyone has had a different experience with getting it to work on modern computers. For me, the lowest settings cause more issues.

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LRR doesn't work in WINE. People have tried and have gotten as far as the main menu with extreme graphical glitches. Windows is the ONLY thing that can run LRR.

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LRR doesn't work in WINE. People have tried and have gotten as far as the main menu with extreme graphical glitches. Windows is the ONLY thing that can run LRR.

Spoil sport. I'm sure there is some way of getting it to work on other OSs.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for all your suggestions however i still can't get it to work.

I know that most people find this to not work, but I've had some luck with enhanced mode on Windows XP, while standard causes the game to freeze on startup. You have Windows 7 Ultimate, so try downloading XP Mode (with Virtual Machine) and running it in enhanced mode.

I tried this method and RockRaiders refuses to accent the virtual graphics card as a graphics card so it will refuse to run

I'm beginning to suspect this may be a driver issue on my laptop.

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After taking a look at lenovo... it wouldn't surprise me if you had a driver issue. However, I'm not entirely convinced that this is the problem and that you should start downloading/installing drivers; unfortunately, I don't know what to think about this at the moment.

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Hi Everyone,

Thank you for all your suggestions however i still can't get it to work.

I know that most people find this to not work, but I've had some luck with enhanced mode on Windows XP, while standard causes the game to freeze on startup. You have Windows 7 Ultimate, so try downloading XP Mode (with Virtual Machine) and running it in enhanced mode.

I tried this method and RockRaiders refuses to accent the virtual graphics card as a graphics card so it will refuse to run

I'm beginning to suspect this may be a driver issue on my laptop.

Updating drivers should be a routine fix...most importantly though, you have a laptop. Laptops aren't exactly built for gaming; case in point is that my friend's laptop has WAY better specs than my desktop, but when playing F.E.A.R. 2 he received all kinds of graphics clipping issues and screen tearing and whatnot, while I was (relatively) able to play with most settings on high and not get any issues.

Can you test it on a desktop?

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Try Installing Windows 8 On Your Desktop Or Your Laptop I hope This helps To You

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Try Installing Windows 8 On Your Desktop Or Your Laptop I hope This helps To You

 

3 year bump. Ok. I'll try to be the most polite as possible in replying to your post... If he's got Windows 7, he probably doesn't have Windows 8, and I hope you know that in 2011 there was no such thing as Windows 8. And anyway, in 3 years I hope this dude has found a solution to this problem, and if he has not, he is certainly not interested anymore in finding it. And now, please let me know why installing LRR on Windows 8 should fix the problem. From the information we gathered in this community, it  appears to cause even more problems than his younger brother. So, the moral of the story is: INFORM YOURELF/READ BEFORE POSTING. And DON'T FREAKING BUMP.

 

...Now I completely understand how McJobless feels everytime someone bumps a dead topic. I am really sorry to rage at you, but this stuff makes me mad.

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