LSW 2 Original Trilogy: Workaround for Crash During Cutscene with Nvidia Cards

[Geekio]

This is NOT talking about Complete Saga, this is talking about Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. I'm posting this here because I don't know of a central forum for LSW2, and people might look here. I have not seen this documented anywhere else.

There's an issue in LSW2 where on some systems, the game will crash to desktop during the opening cutscene of Secret Plans or during other cutscenes. As far as I can tell, this is a problem with recent Nvidia drivers (i.e. last couple years) not playing nicely with a certain particle effect. The workaround I've found is to force the game to use integrated CPU graphics instead of the GPU. On Windows 10, you can do this by going to the Settings app, then going to System > Display > Graphics settings. Browse for a Desktop App and find LegoStarWarsII.exe, select Options, and choose your integrated graphics chip (assuming your CPU has one).

Bear in mind that this may reduce performance significantly, especially on older CPUs. Also, while this fixed the issue for me, I can't guarantee it will work on every system. It's worth a try though, if you're having this problem.

[Maglor]

Man, I'd never find solution without you and I do not expect that I will find it by desperatly by just browsing on Steam. I'm really suprised that Google didn't show me this post. Thank you very much