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.
Key points
- For Windows 8 and later apply the fullscreen border fix.
- Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS.
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
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
The latest official patch 2.0 is available at www.tombraiderchronicles.com and at soggi.org.
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.
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:
- Real widescreen with the right aspect ratio and field of view
- Deinterlaced FMVs
- Hides the window border on windows 10 - Tomb Raider 2
- Working audio for TR2 Gold and Lossless audio, instead of mp3, for TR2
- Transparent inventory background
- Better compatibility with Xinput gamepads
- Allows use of the iOS version texture pack
- Has all of the benefits of Peixoto's Patch and more.
- Restores the animated inventory background of the PlayStation version.
- Many other fixes like UI scaling, controls, graphics, sound, etc.
- Manual explaining the Extra Options can be found here
- Further information and guide on how to use texture mods in this forum post.
- 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.
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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 folder with one of the EXEs from Lara's Home Mod for TR2. (When Windows asks you if you want to replace the old file, choose to do so.)
- Copy the file "assault.TR2" from the Lara's Home Level folder and put it in Golden Mask's data folder.
- Go into the folders "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. (Again choosing to replace any files when Windows asks.)
- Repeat the above process for Lara's Home Mod for TR2's "Updated FMV DLL Files" folder.
- Now you need to download this audio pack, as doing the above just broke the music! Un-RAR it when you get the chance.
- Copy the "audio" folder contained within, and paste it in the main Golden Mask folder.
- You should delete the music folder in the main Golden Mask folder, because it was made redundant with the audio folder.
- Windows 10 users may have issues with the Audio Solution DLL Files. If you have issues use the DLLs 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 doesn't support it and the intro logo video won't play.
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Patch the Gold exe[citation needed]
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- Open the gold exe in a hex editor of your choice.
- 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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| Red Book CD audio |
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Localizations
VR support
Issues fixed
Weird-looking textures
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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.
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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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32-bit only.[5] |
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Mods
For game mods visit Core Design.
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
