Warnings
- The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
- Stella's Website - Walkthroughs, workarounds and downloads
- TombRaider Forums
Availability
- Free demo versions are available from Archive.org: Venice, Great Wall, Gold.
Version differences
- Tomb Raider II Gold (Tomb Raider II: Golden Mask) is a complete edition with four exclusive levels. This version is not sold digitally, however the levels were later released as freeware for those who own the base game.
Essential improvements
Patches
Skip intro videos
Delete ANCIENT.RPL and LOGO.RPL found in <path-to-game>\fmv [citation needed]
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Notes
- The copyright screen will still be shown.
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Tomb Raider Mouse Helper
Tomb Raider Mouse Helper is a utility which allows controlling Lara with the mouse. It also maps the WASD keys to enable a more modern, keyboard+mouse control scheme.
- Real widescreen with the right aspect ratio and field of view
- Deinterlaced FMVs, transparent inventory background
- Hides the window border on Windows 10; improves compatibility with Xinput gamepads
- Working audio for TR2 Gold and Lossless audio, instead of mp3, for TR2
- Allows use of the iOS version texture pack
- Has most of the benefits of Peixoto's Patch and more.
- Restores the animated inventory background & other graphical effects of the PlayStation version. Which can be customized through the "ExtraOptions folder".
- Many other fixes like UI scaling, controls, graphics, sound, etc. Also customizable.
- Manual explaining the Extra Options can be found here
- Further information and guide on how to use texture & FMV mods in this forum post. Go further through the thread pages to find out.
- Automated installer to upgrade your Steam or GOG copy of Tomb Raider II to the definite modern version of the game.
- Includes the "Golden Mask" Expansion (5 additional levels) without requiring a CD
- Unlocked resolution support - runs in your native resolution by default (via dgVoodoo wrapper)
- Widescren Patch by Ed Kurlyak to render the game correctly instead of stretching
- Widescreen converted menu backgrounds (by TRJTA)
- Removed FMV scanlines (by Arsunt)
- Level bugfix - Floating Islands (by Kaejaris)
- Level bugfixes - Nightmare in Vegas by TR Fan
No CD/digital fix for Golden Mask
The Multipatcher doesn't include any fixes for Gold, unfortunately.
Use the House Mod[1]
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- Download Lara's Home Mod for TR2Gold.
- Replace the
t2gold.EXE within the Golden Mask installation directory with one of the EXEs from Lara's Home Mod for TR2. Overwrite when prompted.
- Copy the file
assault.TR2 from the Lara's Home Level folder and put it in Golden Mask's data directory.
- Go into the folder
Audio Solution DLL Files in Lara's Home Mod for TR2, and copy or cut the DLL files contained within. Paste them within the main Golden Mask folder. Overwrite when prompted.
- Repeat the above process for Lara's Home Mod for TR2's
Updated FMV DLL Files folder.
- Download this audio pack, as doing the above broke the music. Extract its
audio folder contained within to the main Golden Mask directory.
- Delete the music folder in the main Golden Mask directory, because it was made redundant with the audio folder.
- Windows 10 users may have issues with the Audio Solution DLL Files. In this case, use here in combination with this audio pack instead. The files labeled
part01 , 02 , and 03 are required regardless of language, however other files are language-specific. The folder they reside in must be called music instead of audio .
- The House Mod's exe is actually a modified base
TR2.exe . Because of this, Peixoto's patch does not support it and the intro logo video will not play.
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Patch the Gold exe manually[citation needed]
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- Open
t2gold.EXE in a hex editor.
- Go to offset
0004AA50 and replace 41 FF 15 5C 31 46 00 85 DB 74 7C 8B 3D 54 31 46 with 2E FF 15 5C 31 46 00 85 DB EB 7C 8B 3D 54 31 46
- Go to offset
00054960 and replace 83 EC 20 56 E8 97 60 FF FF 85 C0 75 20 A1 30 AF with 83 EC 20 56 E8 97 60 FF FF 85 C0 EB 20 A1 30 AF
- lastly, find the string
2E 5C 64 61 74 61 5C 6C 65 67 61 6C 2E 70 63 78 00 between offsets 00067EB0 and 00067EC0 and replace it with 44 3A 5C 64 61 74 61 5C 6C 65 67 61 6C 2E 70 63 78 .
- Save the file.
- Compatible with Peixoto's patch.
- May require audio solution DLLs from House Mod for music playback.
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
External general graphics settings.
External advanced graphics settings.
Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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CD Music and SFX |
Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Royalty free audio |
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Red Book CD audio |
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Localizations
VR support
Issues fixed
Weird-looking textures
Adjust filtering[4]
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- Press ⊞ Win+R.
- Type
regedit and press ↵ Enter.
- Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Core Design\Tomb Raider II\System .
- Open
Linear Adjustment key.
- Switch to base decimal and insert
256 in the value box.
- Click OK.
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Window border visible in fullscreen mode
- Tomb Raider II does not go fullscreen correctly on Windows 8 and later.
GOG.com version does not run
- The GOG.com version of Tomb Raider II does not start, but keeps to run in the background.
Uninstall goggame
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Notes
- It is installed by default along with Tomb Raider II (GOG.com version).
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
5 |
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Software renderer |
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Executable | PPC | 16-bit |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows | | |
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macOS (OS X) | | | |
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32-bit only.[5] |
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Mods
For game mods visit Core Design.
OpenTomb
OpenTomb is an open source remake of the Tomb Raider engine. It overhauls almost all aspects of the game engine, along with adding cross-platform support for modern operating systems and Lua scripting support.
Important links regarding the project:
- Adds HD Textures from the iOS version
- Upscales the textures x2 times higher
- 15 to 30 FPS conversion
- Upscaled 4K Resolution
System requirements
Windows | Mac OS (Classic) | macOS (OS X) |
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
95 | |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium 90 MHz
| Intel Pentium 133 MHz |
System memory (RAM) |
16 MB |
32 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
2.09 MB | |
Video card (GPU) |
DirectX 5 compatible
| Direct3D compatible |
Sound (audio device) |
100% Windows 95 compatible | |
Other |
4x CD-ROM drive | |
Mac OS |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
7.5.3 | |
Processor (CPU) |
80 MHz PowerPC
| 100 MHz PowerPC |
System memory (RAM) |
16 MB |
24 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
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Other |
QuickTime 3.0 4x CD-ROM drive |
8x CD-ROM drive |
macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
Operating system (OS) |
10.6.6 |
Processor (CPU) |
1.8 GHz |
System memory (RAM) |
512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
1 GB |
Video card (GPU) |
ATI Radeon X1600 Nvidia GeForce 7300 128 MB of VRAM |
Notes
References