» Lara sounds like a chipmunk and talks very fast.
Update the sound card driver. Confirmed problem on the Realtek Sound chip. If this still doesn't work go to your Windows Control Panel (Start, Settings, Control Panel). Click Sound and Multimedia. Once you are in Sound and Multimedia Properties click the Audio tab. In the box Sound Playback click Advanced, choose the Performance tab and set the Hardware acceleration from Full acceleration to Basic acceleration or No Acceleration.
» sys_error_d3d error
Usually caused by an unsupported graphics card or an out of date driver. Update the Graphics Driver.
If there are still problems try adjusting the graphic settings. In the first pre-game menu screen , go to SETTINGS. |
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General Tab
Set Frame Rate Compensation to Active and Fast. Make sure Processor has been set correctly. |
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Graphics Tab
Click on FF in the Default group (Fixed Function).
Once you have TRAOD running, you can go back and select Normal and check if that works OK. This option turns on the default settings for your particular card type. If this proves to be alright you may wish to modify various settings to improve screen resolution or quality.
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» Crashing at Strahov Fortress.
Go to SETTINGS as above and uncheck Multi Threaded and check/ uncheck AMD 3D Now! and Intel SSE.
» GAME_ERROR_STRUCTURED_ EXCEPTION_HANDLE or SYS_ERROR_STRUCTURED_ EXCEPTION_HANDLE
Sound card problem. Check for updates for your driver and/or turn down the hardware acceleration on the Sound tab of Dxdiag.exe. To do that, go to Start > Run and type dxdiag and press Ok (if it asks you a question, click YES). When the DirectX Diagnostil Tool window opens, go to the Sound tab and from the DirectX Features box set the Hardware acceleration from Full acceleration to Basic acceleration or No Acceleration.
This error message can also relate to a corrupted saved game.
» Game doesn't start. Black screen after Eidos Logo.
Check USB devices. Unplug unnecessary USB devices like cameras, scanners, printers etc. Go to TRAOD Settings and see if there are any USB devices listed that are not game related and disable them. There have been reports of settings displaying multiple keyboards. Turn all off except one.
» I don't see any shadows.
The shadows are drawn using DX9 functions. This means older cards may not display any shadows. |
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» Everything looks out of focus.
The game has a Depth of Field (DOF) option on DX9 compatible cards. This is used to give the illusion that items further away are out of focus and changes the aspect.
The DOF function is very processor intensive and can dramatically reduce the frame rate on the less powerful cards such as the nVidia FX5200.
The nVidia 45.23 drivers do not handle Depth of Field correctly. Install the latest driver from nVidia to see if this corrects the problem.
To see the difference compare these images: Radeon 9800 Pro DOF On - Radeon 9800 Pro DOF Off
» The menu moves so fast. I can't select most of the options.
Turn on the Wait for VSync in the graphics Tab of the TRAoD Settings dialog. This can be a problem on the high performance graphic cards.
» Save game successful, but there is no saved game?
Check that you have not enabled Windows 98 Compatibility Mode. This is not nesessary for TRAOD and results in the saved games failing.
» I get a message "Insert Disc 1" when I start the game.
Check that there is at least 200MB of free disk space
available on the TRAOD installation drive. The game
creates temporary files while running and the size changes
depending on the complexity of the scene.
» The MAC version asks for a registration number, but I don't have one.
Some packages were shipped without the nessesary installation code. You need to contact the Aspyr support team (support@aspyr.com).
» MAC bug in the Storm drains.
After turning the valves in the storm drains, the water doesn't fill up as the Cutscene fails to run. Disable the Distance fog in the Configuration Utility before starting the game. It is also fixed by this Patch 1.0.1.
» General Crashing on AMD processors.
Try turning off Multi Threaded and SSE options in your SETTINGS of the game as these are PENTIUM options only and could cause your AMD processor problems when trying to run Tomb Raider.
» FMV ERROR (tomb raider font Italic white writing on menu screen).
Make sure that in your game settings, the second screen (graphics options) in the OPTIONS box has FMV, Overlay Mixer and Texture Renderer TICKED and that everything else is unticked.
IF you do not have the FMV box, download the
patches and then check the options.
Make sure on the Sound tab that you also have your sound ON and that always use windows default device is selected and matches that of your sound card.
You will also need to ensure the desktop resolution matches the in game resolution.
Go to Start > Run, then type in dxdiag and press OK (if it asks you a question, click YES) When the DirectX Diagnostil Tool window opens, go to the Sound tab and from the DirectX Features box set the Hardware acceleration from Full acceleration to Basic acceleration. Exit the Dxdiag and try and run the game again.
» Where do I get the latest graphic drivers?
The PC manufactures web site should have a driver update page, but they don't always have the latest versions. The most popular graphic chip manufactures do supply generic drivers and they are the latest and greatest. These are links to the more popular makes:
  
Note: For Notebooks always use the PC manufactures drivers.
» Do graphic cards effect the quality of TRAOD?
Yes. The graphics card can make a huge difference in performance and quality as can the settings you choose. Click here (AVI file - 564KB) to see the difference between graphically capabilities. The first half shows the limitation of card that can only run Fixed Function, while the second half uses the high end effects you would expect to see on a fully enabled card.
Do graphic cards effect the performance of TRAOD?
The three graphs below compare:
• nVidia FX5200 (low end DX9 card) on a P4 3.06Ghz
• ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (High end DX9 card) on a Athlon 1700+
• nVidia GeForce2 GTS (Medium DX7 card) on a Athlon 1700+
As can be seen the FX5200 slows down dramatically when the advanced Pixel Shaders are enabled compared to the 9800 Pro which is running on a much slower CPU. The GeForce2 GTS, which is a slightly older card will run the game OK, but cannot use any of the Pixel Shaders. This means many effects are inhibited such as shadows, water reflections, Depth of field etc.
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HWFF - Hardware Fixed Function
SWFF - Software Fixed Function
PS1.0 - Pixel Shader v1.0
PS1.4 - Pixel Shader v1.4
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» What do the Patches fix?
This is the readme.rtf supplied with the v49 patch and placed in
the TRAOD install folder. The original instruction supplied by Eidos
recommended installing v42 then v49.
V42: Stopped Crashes when Keyboard is remapped to selected keys, System deadlocks if the correct is not present when playing an FMV, System deadlocks or crashes just after loading a level, Missing ShotGun, EAX Logos incorrect, FMV player now supports machines with the VMR9 interface.
V49: Save game time are now in local time and not GMT, Fixed Lightning effects in final battle and hanger, Added build version to start screen, Changed conversation to use action key, Multisampling and post process are no mutually exclusive (only possible with DX9.0a or higher), Stopped ammunition decreasing too fast, Added key remapping for cycle weapons, Stopped quick-save from producing empty filenames, Fixed incorrect lighting on staticly lit animated objects, Stopped failed controller profile from removing existing profiles, Added user clip plane support to projected shadows. It also supplies all the command line parameters that can be used with TRAOD, including such commands -Benchmark -godmode -debugkeys etc.
V52: A bug fix list was NOT supplied. The obvious change was that the command line option -benchmark was removed and v49 saved games don't work.
» Camera is looking at Lara's Face. Bio-Research Facility.
Walk up to a wall and go into stealth mode. Press Action to get Lara to hug up next to the wall and the camera should correct itself.
» How do I start DXDIAG?
Click Start, and then Run. Type dxdiag and click Ok. In the new window click save information as... and save the file to your hard drive by clicking Ok again. In that file you have now everything you need to know about your computer. You can then paste this into a forum reply. See TechHelp for more details.
» TRAOD Graphic settings - What do they mean?
Interesting article here that explains all the graphic settings in TRAOD and how to benchmark your card. http://www.beyond3d.com/downloads/traod/index.php
Download the benchmark demo at this link which includes a readme file with an explanation of the settings.
http://www.beyond3d.com/downloads/traod/b3d_traodreadme1.zip
» Windows Blinds and Style XP can causes black screen and/or graphic problems...
... with TRAOD. Unload the program before running the game.
» How do I take a Screen Shot?
Start the game and when ever you wish to capture the screen press the PrtScn key (print screen). The game will pause for a second as the image is written to disk. The images are saved in TGA format (Truevision Targa). The image file is saved into a sub folder where TRAOD is installed. .......\TRAOD\ScreenShots\
The setup option in TRAOD does indicate that Ctrl + PrtScn can be used to capture a scaled image, but this causes the game to crash so should be avoided.
Note that Microsoft Paint, Microsoft Media Player and Microsoft Imaging do not support TGA format so it may be nescessary to install a viewer/editor program. If you do not already have a suitable viewer there are many photo/paint programs available to download as shareware, freeware or purchase that will do the job. One recommended freeware viewer is IRFANVIEW.
» Where can I find Saved Games?
You can download the saved games from Tomb Raider Chronicles. The zip file contains 3 smaller zip files.
» How do I use a saved game?
Once you have downloaded the aod_saves.zip open the zip file. It contains 3 other zip files.
Batch1.zip: Derelict Apartment Block to The Archaeological Dig
Batch2.zip: Tomb of Ancients to The Sanitarium
Batch3.zip: Maximum Containement Area to Eckhardt's Lab
The saved games are located in the ...\Eidos Interactive\TRAOD\SaveGame directory. Just unzip the files and copy them into this folder.
Note: Before copy the contents of the Zip file into the SaveGame folder we would recommend you backup the existing save files.
» Can I run TRAOD without the CD in the drive?
Yes. Run a FULL installation and you can run the game without needing the CD in the CD-ROM drive. This also means there are less pauses in the game as it is quicker for the game to get the information from the hard disk than the CD-ROM.
» Can I cheat on the PS2?
The more popular versions are GameShark and Action
Replay. The one cheat that can be performed without a cheat
disk is Level Skip.
» What is EAX?
EAX is a trade mark of Creative Technology and is available on the Sounblaster Audigy and Audigy 2 range which offers dramatically increased 3D audio performance and functionality. See http://eax.creative.com for further details.
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