Tomb Raider: Legend

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Tomb Raider: Legend
Tomb Raider: Legend cover
Developers
Crystal Dynamics
Windows Nixxes Software
Publishers
Eidos Interactive
Engines
Crystal Engine
Release dates
Windows April 7, 2006
 
 
 
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider 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
Tomb Raider (2013) 2013
Rise of the Tomb Raider 2016

Key points

Includes graphical improvements also present in the Xbox 360 release ("Next generation content" in the video settings menu).

General information

Square Enix Forums for Tomb Raider: Legend
Square Enix Forums for Tomb Raider: Legend - Technical Forum
Lara Croft Wiki - A detailed wiki for the Tomb Raider series
Legend at Tomb Raider Forums
Tom's Hardware graphics setting analysis
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
 
 DRM: SecuROM
 
Gamesplanet
 
 
Games Republic
 
 
Green Man Gaming
 
 
Humble Store
 
 
Steam
 
 
Uplay (EMEA/other)
 
 

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename nvidia.bik and title.bik.

Notes

The copyright screen will still be shown.

Patches[edit]

v1.2 Patch updates the retail game to the latest version. Digital distribution versions are already patched.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Crystal Dynamics\Tomb Raider: Legend\

Save game data location[edit]

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Tomb Raider - Legend\

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

External video settings.
External video settings.
In-game general video settings.
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
'Next generation content' option contains bugs such as missing wetness effects on Lara as well as misaligned ropes and vines.
Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
 
 4:3 and 16:9 only; for others use Flawless Widescreen/Widescreen Fixer.
Multi-monitor
 
 Use Flawless Widescreen or Widescreen Fixer.
Ultra-widescreen
 
 Use Flawless Widescreen or Widescreen Fixer.
4K Ultra HD
 
Field of view (FOV)
Use Tomb Raider: Legend FOV Hack (Steam unsupported).[1]
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Only native options are on and off.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input settings[edit]

In-game general control settings.
In-game general control settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game gamepad settings.
In-game gamepad settings.
Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Off by default.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
XInput-compatible controllers are supported. UI will still refer to keyboard keys, however by manually remapping controls until the controller button is the first listed for each action instead of the keyboard, in-game button prompts will refer to correct controller buttons.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Additional information
Button prompts
In-game tutorials show keyboard keys only.
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback

Audio settings[edit]

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.
In-game language settings.
In-game language settings.
Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, sound effects, voice
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

VR support[edit]

3D modes Native Notes
Native 3D
Nvidia 3D Vision
Some text, HUD items are flat. Turn off Next Generation Content and Depth of Field. Text highlight for 3D objects is at incorrect depth.
TriDef 3D
iZ3D

Issues fixed[edit]

Random crashing[edit]

Use fixed exe[2]
  1. Copy executable in <path-to-game>
Turn off Next generation content from Display options

Steam overlay not working[edit]

Game does not support the Steam overlay by default.

Adding testapp.exe or trl.exe (from the game's folder) to your library as a non-Steam game enables the overlay.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support 3
64-bit executable

Middleware[edit]

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000 XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz Intel Pentium IV 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 9.9 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti
ATI Radeon 9000 series
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible 		Nvidia GeForce 7800
ATI Radeon X1800
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible

References

  1. ↑ Tomb Raider: Legend | WSGF
  2. ↑ TRUE Crash Fix for TRL Next Gen Mode (Download) - www.tombraiderforums.com