Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft

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

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
Publisher website
Amazon.com
GOG.com		Includes Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider II
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

Version differences[edit]

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

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

Download here

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:

Skip intro videos[edit]

Delete/rename video files^{[citation needed]}

Go to <path-to-game>\fmv\
Delete or rename Intr_Eng.rpl and logo.rpl.

Notes

The copyright screen will still be shown.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows
Mac OS

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows
Mac OS

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

External options menu.

Detail options menu.

Graphics option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Stretched by default. Use Tomb Raider 2,3,4 Widescreen Patch.
Multi-monitor		Use Tomb Raider 2,3,4 Widescreen Patch together with dgVoodoo 2.
Ultra-widescreen		Use Tomb Raider 2,3,4 Widescreen Patch together with dgVoodoo 2.
Field of view (FOV)	Use Tomb Raider 2,3,4 Widescreen Patch.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
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
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Issues fixed[edit]

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

Run setup^[1]

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

Game save bug (Steam)[edit]

Visions of the Future^{[citation needed]}

Go to trle.net
Download the level "Visions of the Future"
Overwrite the steam TR3.exe with the visions of the future one (This also allows you to rebind keys, if you overwrite the config.txt file too).

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

References

↑ Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft · Tomb Raider III · AppID: 225320 · Steam Database

[1] Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft · Tomb Raider III · AppID: 225320 · Steam Database

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Developers

	Core Design
Publishers
	Eidos Interactive
Release dates
Windows	November 30, 1998
Mac OS	October 22, 1999