Man I used to love playing that game! Just dug the CD out and gave it a whirl on my laptop which is running Windows 7 Home Premium. In Windows 95 compatibility mode it works fine!

Hmm, interesting. Might have to wait and see until I get my new laptop. Thanks for the reply!

Doesn't it have Glide API support? IIRC?!?!!? (1999 games HAD to have one)
If so, glidewrapper it up.

leileilol wrote:

Doesn't it have Glide API support? IIRC?!?!!? (1999 games HAD to have one)
If so, glidewrapper it up.

D3D only as it was a multi platform release.

So this is interesting. Out of interest I downloaded the demo which works perfectly. I have 2 options for video driver Direct 3d hardware and software. Weird...

Maybe it's a videodriver issue, older games that run on ATI cards sometimes don't run on Nvidia cards and the other way around. Does your CD-ROM of Lego Racers also have the option for software rendering? If so, try that.

Try renaming the EXE? Maybe some regressed internal video profile is screwing it up.

@ Procyon, no that's the weird thing. I can open up the 3D device selector window for the game but it's completely blank. The same window for the demo lists Direct 3D hardware and software mode.

@leileilol, nope, just tried that and it didn't work either.

Thanks for all the replies. I may just put the disc away until I get my Win7 laptop.

Just for those who were hanging on the edge of their seats, I managed to get it to work on my windows 7 laptop. Man, that game is surprisingly good (if a bit easy).

That was the first PC game I bought to! good to see you got it working. I still keep the old machine i played it on around, but it will run just fine on my XP machine too. That game to me back then was such a B****! man how things change. i can beat it if under an hour if i'm board