Tomb Raider II

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

For Windows 8 and later apply the fullscreen border fix.

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

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		Includes Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider III.
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Mac App Store
Steam

Version differences[edit]

Tomb Raider II Gold (Tomb Raider II: Golden Mask) is a complete edition with four exclusive levels. This version is not sold digitally.

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

v2.0 is the latest version.

Skip intro videos[edit]

Rename/delete video files^{[citation needed]}

Go to <path-to-game>\fmv\
Delete or rename ANCIENT.RPL and LOGO.RPL.
The game will now go to the main menu after the copyright screen.

Extras[edit]

.mp3 audio files support
Tomb Raider 2 bonus levels

OpenTomb[edit]

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:

AHK Injector[edit]

AHK Injector includes a widescreen patch for the game and allows you to use the iOS textures pack and the Remastered FMVs pack amongst other things

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Core Design\Tomb Raider II
Mac OS
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\savegame.*
Mac OS
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

External general graphics settings.

External advanced graphics settings.

Graphics option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Fullscreen is stretched by default.^[1] Use Tomb Raider II: Patch and Mod Tool.
Multi-monitor		Use Tomb Raider II: Patch and Mod Tool together with dgVoodoo 2.
Ultra-widescreen		Use Tomb Raider II: Patch and Mod Tool together with dgVoodoo 2.
Field of view (FOV)	Use Tomb Raider 2,3,4 Widescreen Patch.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed	^[2]
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	Bilinear and trilinear filtering only
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS	Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS.
120+ FPS	Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS.

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Use AHK Injector to add support for XInput controllers.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback

Audio settings[edit]

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and SFX
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Issues fixed[edit]

Weird looking textures[edit]

Adjust filtering^[3]

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.
Press OK

Window border visible in fullscreen mode[edit]

Tomb Raider II does not go fullscreen correctly on Windows 8 and later.

Apply the fix

Download and install the Tomb Raider series fullscreen border fix.

GOG.com version not running on Windows 10[edit]

The GOG.com version of Tomb Raider II does not start on Windows 10, but Tomb2.exe is running in the background (in Task Manager).

Use the multipatcher^[4]

Download the multipatcher
During installation, select the option to "Extract updates to Desktop" under "Utilities"
When prompted to insert the Tomb Raider II CD, press "Cancel." The installer will continue extracting the update files to your desktop.
Copy the files from Tomb Raider Update Files\TR2 on your desktop to the game directory installed by GOG

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9 compatible

OS X
	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

References

[1] Widescreen? - TombRaiderforums.com

[2] Widescreen? p.2 - TombRaiderforums.com

[3] TR II FAQ - Tomb Raider HUB

[4] ttps://www.gog.com/forum/tomb_raider_series/a_note_about_tr2_on_windows_10/post15

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Developers

	Core Design
Mac OS	Westlake Interactive
Publishers
	Eidos Interactive
Mac OS, OS X	Aspyr Media
Release dates
Windows	October 31, 1997
Mac OS	January 1, 1998
OS X	October 27, 2011