LEGO Creator 1998 on Windows 10

[Caleb Holmberg]

Hello all,

I have been trying to run the 1998 game LEGO Creator on my Windows 10 Laptop, but have been unsuccessful thus far. My computer has the following specs:

Processor    Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9300H CPU @ 2.40GHz   2.40 GHz
Installed RAM    32.0 GB (31.8 GB usable)
System type    64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

 

It also uses a NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1650 graphics card. I am trying to install it from the disc through an optical USB CD drive (this is the one I have https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071LGWVSL?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details). It reads the disc and allows me to open the CD and look in its folders, but whenever I try starting the autorun application, nothing happens. I tried it on a different Windows 10 PC (with a built-in disc drive) and it worked fine. I have tried setting the compatibility to Windows 98/me and Windows XP Service Pack 3 (both of which have worked on other computers), to no avail. If anyone has any advice, I greatly appreciate it.

[Caleb Holmberg]

Actually, I was able to install it, but I cannot run creator.exe. It gives me an error saying "Class not registered."

[legoMyeggo]

Maybe you can try the 'Windows XP Compatible' version. If that doesn't work use a virtual machine running Windows XP or before.

[Arthuriel]

Hi Caleb,
If you mean the original release of LEGO Creator (the one with the studs on the CD case spine*), I would recommend either going with legoMyeggo's tip or you get/build a computer with Windows 98 as an operating system since this particular version of the game only seems to work on Win 98 and that's it**.

*I don't know, if there are other releases of this game that only work with Win 98

**a few years ago I wrote a post that basically boils down to that. Others managed to get the game to work on more modern systems, but I got the impression that they had the Windows XP version. On the internet I also found people writing about an XP patch, but I couldn't find a reliable source for that and I think that they might have confused it with an XP version:

 

[Caleb Holmberg]

So, the disc I have was a later re-release (it came bundled with Legoland) and has worked on Windows XP before. Thanks for your support.

[Erhy]

I take much pleasure playing video games with my grandchildren on my desktop Windows PC.

Searching for peaceful games I discovered Lego Creator.

Because the game does not run fine with my Windows 10, I experienced some days for.

Suddenly I  succeeded, but I don't know exactly why.

 

Below is some advice that I think is useful.

 

My equipments:

Windows 10 Professional Desktop PC with monitor in
resolution 1920 x 1080 and Scale and Layout Factor  125%.

 

First with the English Version:

I downloaded them all from *Link removed*

There was also Lego_Creator_Win_ROM_EN.zip .
Reading LEGO Media (Creator).reg I saw that the prefered installation location is
"C:\Games\LEGO Creator" . So I created the folder C:\Games .
In the folder LEGO_Creator_Fix_Registry I executed the .reg files.

In the folder LEGO_Creator_NoCD I started Creator.exe and it runs in a small part of my display, but errors showing help.

 

To fix the help issue I dowloaded Hlp32Fix_Win10.zip from https://www.mediafire.com/file/lde511bu16crr6t/Hlp32Fix_Win10.zip/file and started Install.cmd .

Now in C:\Windows there is winhlp32.exe and there are no errors showing help.

 

I unpacked Lego_Creator_Win_ROM_EN.zip and in the folder "Game Files" Lego_Creator.bin and Lego_Creator.cue .

I burned a CD with the software ImgBurn, at which I had chosen the .cue file.

Again with ImgBurn I created an  ISO Image file with the extension .iso .
I mounted this .iso file and in the folder Creator
I changed the compatibility option for SETUP.EXE to run for Windows 95 .

By starting SETUP.EXE I installed Lego Creator with all to install in "C:\Games".
This resulted in a folder tree "C:\Games\lego creator" .
I restarted the computer and
set the compatibility option for "C:\Games\lego creator\Constructive\CREATOR\Creator.exe"
to run for Windows 95 .

There was only a small display area used by running this Creator.exe but it looked fine.

 

Now I searched for a German Version of this game and found *Link removed* .
I downloaded the ISO image *Link removed* , which needed some time.

Because I installed the English version before, I uninstalled this.

I mounted this ISO image and  in the folder Creator and again I changed the compatibility option for SETUP.EXE to run for Windows 95 . Started SETUP.EXE and chose the same folder to install as before and all to install. Again, I restarted the computer and
set the compatibility option for "C:\Games\lego creator\Constructive\CREATOR\Creator.exe"
to run for Windows 95 .

 

Running this Creator.exe there is an error:
Läuft nicht unter Windows NT (don't run with Windows NT).

 

Now I zipped "C:\Games\lego creator" with the hope to be able to replace some files and folders in the English version.

I uninstalled this German version and the question about uninstalling unused files I answered none for all.

 

Again I installed the English version as before and it ran.

 

Now I expanded the zip file from the German installation and replaced this items
with that from the German version:

"C:\Games\lego creator\Constructive\CREATOR\CTXLEGO.HLP"

"C:\Games\lego creator\Constructive\CREATOR\Tutorial"

"C:\Games\lego creator\Constructive\CREATOR\Wav\help"

"C:\Games\lego creator\Constructive\CREATOR\Wav\Iface"

 

Now Lego Creator runs with German text and voices .

 

But I had troubles with the playing field, which was too small.

 

One day later Lego Creator runs without troubles.

 

Perhaps this registry entries are advantageous:

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers]
"C:\\Games\\lego creator\\Constructive\\CREATOR\\Creator.exe" = "~     WIN95"

 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Compatibility Assistant\Store]

"C:\\Games\\lego creator\\Constructive\\CREATOR\\Creator.exe"=hex:53,41,43,50,\

  01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,07,00,00,00,28,00,00,00,00,3a,b7,00,bd,3d,b7,00,01,\

  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,01,05,71,20,00,00,50,bb,64,ed,dd,ac,d5,01,00,00,\

  00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,28,00,00,00,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,60,00,04,00,\

  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,88,42,17,00,00,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,\

  05,00,00,00

 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects\{956D7489-572E-47B6-8B0A-4BE3E0181E94}Machine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Display]

"EnablePerProcessSystemDPIForProcesses"="\"C:\\Games\\lego creator\\Constructive\\CREATOR\\Creator.exe\""

"DisablePerProcessSystemDPIForProcesses"=""

"EnableGdiDPIScaling"="\"C:\\Games\\lego creator\\Constructive\\CREATOR\\Creator.exe\""

 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects\{956D7489-572E-47B6-8B0A-4BE3E0181E94}User\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Display]

"EnablePerProcessSystemDPIForProcesses"="\"C:\\Games\\lego creator\\Constructive\\CREATOR\\Creator.exe\""

"DisablePerProcessSystemDPIForProcesses"=""

 

[apemax]

Hello @Erhy,

 

Welcome to RRU, I have deleted the links in your post as posting links to pirated copies of games is against the rules:

 

 

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