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Lego Island does not have a readily accessible [[Windowed Mode]], however there is partial support for it. It seems the feature was never complete or perhaps even never intended to be used outside of development. Regardless, there is a way to make it run in a window, with a few limitations.
Lego Island does not have a readily accessible [[Windowed Mode]], however there is partial support for it. It seems the feature was never complete or perhaps even never intended to be used outside of development. Regardless, there is a way to make it run in a window, with a few limitations.


== Enabling Windowed Mode ==
== Enabling Windowed Mode (Recommended) ==


Firstly, you must have registry write access (usually only an administrator can write to the registry).
Use the [[Lego Island Rebuilder]] tool. It does everything below automatically with one setting and requires no administrator privileges or registry editing to do so.
 
== Enabling Windowed Mode (Manually) ==
 
Firstly, you must have registry write access.


# In the Lego Island configuration, set your Direct3D device to '''Ramp Emulation''' (Lego Island will crash on launch if it's set to `Direct3D HAL` and windowed mode).
# In the Lego Island configuration, set your Direct3D device to '''Ramp Emulation''' (Lego Island will crash on launch if it's set to `Direct3D HAL` and windowed mode).
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NOTE: Lego Island Configuration will automatically set "Full Screen" back to YES
NOTE: Lego Island Configuration will automatically set "Full Screen" back to YES
== Troubleshooting ==


=== In windowed mode, the background textures are missing and everything is blue ===
=== In windowed mode, the background textures are missing and everything is blue ===

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