Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair

Wow this is like the best game ever made. it even has 1920x1080 and the option to change your fov from 4:3 or 16:9. And it correctly changes. Thats witchcraft.

I feel like this is the only video game ive ever found that actually fits my imagination of what a video game SHOULD be. 3D graphics should be a disco party!

Works great for me in Win10 with just using the English patch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCcVavqqXj8

THANK YOU FOR THE GAME AND THE FIXES IN THE COMMENT. :* WENT BACK INTO MY CHILDHOOD

Già hai miei tempi dell'adolescenza questo gioco era un mito per me.
Ritrovarlo dopo anni è un piacere che mi rende felice.
Ottimo per chi ci lavora e trovandoci per le occasione Buon Natale e felice anno nuovo

Go to the wesbite "GameCopyWorld" get the Spanish patch-fix to replace DL3D.exe mentioned by previous user.

For issues when displaying this on a television in 4K make sure to right-click the dragonslair.exe go to properties-compatability and then change high dpi settings and turn on "ignore high dpi scaling".

For the audio issues use Creative Alchemy Universal
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/28-creative-alchemy-universal. Install this file and go to program files (x86) open the Creative folder and grab dsound.dll and dsoundlog. If you can't find the dsoundlog start up the Creative application to create this file.

For modern control support start up Dragons Lair 3D go to controls and turn on console camera, set movement speed to walk (you can hold a button to run or vice versa, handy for precise platforming TR style). Next, go to control options and set a button for jumping and accept changes. Close the game, download Joytokey and create a new profile. Assign (button 1 - X PS /A XBOX AKA jump button) to "Enter" on your keyboard, (button 8 - Start) to "Escape". Now boot up dragons lair 3d once again and customize the controls to whatever you like. Just make sure to not change the jump button anymore.

My controls xbox one controller
Left stick - movement
Right stick - Camera
Use/attack - X/button 2
Jump - A/button 0
Crouch - B/button 1
Auto-Target - RSB/button 9
Block - RB/button 5
Quicksave - LSB/button 8
Quickload - F9 (can also load from the menu)
Equip - Y/button 3
Walk - ......
Run - LB/button 4
Sword - dpad up/hat switch up
Crossbow - dpad down/hat switch down
Steel arrow -.....
Fire arrow -.....
Magic arrow -....
Prev arrow -....
Next arrow - dpad left/hat switch left
Amulet - select/button 6
Next essence - dpad right/hat switch right
Previous essence -....
Look around - RT or LT

I only noticed 2 instances with a visual bug with tapestry and pillars clipping through other textures, hardly noticeable but would be cool if someone know a fix for that. Some forum post said its a z-positionimg issue?

I am a video game player for long time the first home game system came out to the first Arcade video games come out. Years later i saw the first dragon's lair in a arcade on a
cd platform then later Dragon's lair 2 came out on a cd platform then years later i found DL 3D for windows pc. I was surprised to see DL 3d on a pc platform it was lots of fun an lots of rooms to see an play, and the fun arcade game was space ace then later years the game out on pc platform. Video games of all platforms can be real fun to play.. :o)

Instead of going through all the trouble of getting the PC version to run I'd highly recommend that you get the Gamecube version and use the emulator called Dolphin. It runs great in Dolphin and you are able to increase the resolution so it looks great.

Nice ! didn't find anywhere else .

Running the game on Windows 10:
1. Download the Spanish Fixed EXE and the German Fixed EXE #2.
https://gamecopyworld.eu/games/pc_dragon_lair_3d.shtml
2. Extract "Setupreg.exe" from the German .rar archive to the game's /bin folder (if you can't see it, turn on "show hidden folders").
3. Run Setupreg.exe - Install - Close
4. Extract "DL3D.exe" from the SPANISH .rar archive to the game's /bin folder, overwriting the original file.

This is where it gets weird. I renamed the Spanish DL3D.exe to "DL3DorigSP.exe" and it works (although the language is set to German everytime I start the game). I'm not sure why, but renaming it to "DL3D" or even "DL3Dorig" didn't work.

This method is not 100% sure, I've been fiddling around with all available No-CD-s, patches and fixes, and this is what I got.

I can confirm tho, that using Creative ALchemy solves the missing music issue.

To make the game run on Win 10: find from GameCopyWorld the Spanish patch-fix to replace DL3D.exe (won't force Spanish language, don't worry) and use also Creative Alchemy Universal https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/28-creative-alchemy-universal/ if you want music/cutscenes/movies audio. That's it.

"update" for the life of me I cant get it going tried many things no cd crack ended up with my thought is that the game is in 32 bit and the required patches and fixes run on 32 bit while i am running 64 bit would've loved to play this again but decided not to try any further if anyone gets it going on a 64 bit win 10 please leave a comment thanks

I had this game on xbox and have been searching for it for years havent fully downloaded yet but i will comment again with results

Not working: when you try to play, ask to insert disk

Very beatiful and memorable game!