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Revision as of 14:46, 17 January 2020

Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft cover
Developers
Core Design
Publishers
Eidos Interactive
Release dates
Windows November 30, 1998
Mac OS (Classic) October 22, 1999
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft guide on StrategyWiki
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft on MobyGames
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft on Wikipedia
Tomb Raider (1996) 1996
Tomb Raider II 1997
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft 1998
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation 1999
Tomb Raider Chronicles 2000
Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness 2003
Tomb Raider: Legend 2006
Tomb Raider: Anniversary 2007
Tomb Raider: Underworld 2008
Lara Croft (series)
Tomb Raider (2013) 2013
Lara Croft GO 2015
Rise of the Tomb Raider 2016
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2018
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered 2024

Key points

Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS.

General information

Lara Croft Wiki - A detailed wiki for the Tomb Raider series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Stella's Website - Walkthroughs, workarounds and downloads
TombRaider Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
The Multipatch disables the CD check in addition to fixing compatibility issues.
Windows
Mac OS
Publisher website
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider II
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Origin
Origin
Includes Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider II.
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Version differences

Tomb Raider III: The Lost Artifact is a complete edition with five exclusive levels. This version is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Patches

Download here (officials)
An unofficial patch that Fixes various issues in Tomb Raider 3 and it's addon, as well as optionally removing the green health crystals for harder gameplay, is available here.
A patch for the level Costal Village's missing secret is available here (digital versions only).

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.

Peixoto's patch

Peixoto's patch includes a widescreen patch, deinterlaced FMVs, and adds support for XInput controllers among other things

Skip intro videos

Delete Intr_Eng.rpl and logo.rpl found in <path-to-game>\fmv\[citation needed]

Notes

The copyright screen will still be shown.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/225320/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/225320/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video settings

External options menu.
External options menu.
Detail options menu.
Detail options menu.

Template:Video settings

Windowed

Force windowed[citation needed]
  1. Download and run DxWnd.
  2. Click on Edit, then Add.
  3. Set the name and executable path.
  4. Set the window position and size.
  5. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed.
  6. Click OK, then File and Save.
  7. In game, rebind "Jump" to another key.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Tomb Raider 2-3-4-5.
vorpX
Z3D
User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.6, see profile introdution.
Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum.

Issues fixed

"Tomb Raider 3 Failed To Initialise, Please Run Setup" error at launch

Run setup[1]
  1. Run the game with the setup command line arguments.
  2. Set your options. The game will run normally from now on.

Game save bug (Steam)

Vision of Future[2]
  1. Go to trle.net
  2. Download the level "Vision of Future"
  3. Overwrite the Steam TR3.exe with the vision of future one (This also allows you to rebind keys, if you overwrite the config.txt file too).

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 5
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

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:

Neural Upscaled Textures

All textures upscaled with Topaz AI Gigapixel, with some manual editing.
Requires Piexoto's patch.

Mods

For game mods visit Core Design.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95/98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.48 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 6 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 6 compatible
Other 4x CD-ROM drive

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/225320/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (225320) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References