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Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation

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Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation cover
Developers
Core Design
Publishers
1999-2009 Eidos Interactive
2009-2023 Square Enix
2023-present Crystal Dynamics
Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows November 24, 1999
Mac OS (Classic) June 12, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Adventure, Puzzle, TPS, Shooter
Themes Africa
Series Tomb Raider
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Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation on Wikipedia
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Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation is a singleplayer third-person action, adventure, puzzle, TPS and shooter game in the Tomb Raider series.

On Windows 8 and later, the game does not display properly in fullscreen; use the fullscreen border fix to resolve this.

General information

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 and fixes compatibility issues
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Also includes Tomb Raider Chronicles
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Windows
Origin (unavailable)
Origin
Also includes Tomb Raider Chronicles
Windows
Free demo versions are available from Archive.org: regular, Canon OEM version.

Version differences

The GOG.com version is a complete edition. The Times - Exclusive Tomb Raider Level is part of the bonus content downloads. The level was later released as freeware for those who own the base game, so Steam users aren't completely out of luck.

Essential improvements

Patches

Not needed for GOG.com and Steam versions. Download it here.

Peixoto's patch

Fixes lag when accessing the inventory.
Aspect ratio and field of view correction in widescreen resolutions; forced resolution allows high resolution without shrinking the HUD/menus.
Hides the window border on Windows 10, improves compatibility with XInput gamepads.

Skip intro videos

Go to <path-to-game>\fmv and delete Fmv00.bik[citation needed]

Extras

Patch Fix solves the disappearing Uzi and not being damaged by your own grenades bugs.

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.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic) <path-to-game>\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224980/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic) <path-to-game>\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224980/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video

Launcher settings.
Launcher settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Stretched by default. Use Peixoto's patch.
Stretched title screens and loading screens are available here.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Use Peixoto's patch
4K Ultra HD
Use Peixoto's patch
Field of view (FOV)
Use Tomb Raider 2,3,4 Widescreen Patch
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS

Black bars in cutscenes

Use Helix Mod: Tomb Raider 2-3-4-5 to remove black bars[citation needed]

Input

In-game settings.
In-game settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
If you have the retail version, make sure you are running the latest patch.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
No mouse-look
Controller
Controller support
Use Peixoto's patch to add support for XInput controllers
Full controller support
P is hard-coded as the "Pause" button, which is necessary to quit the game.
Controller remapping
Cannot bind "Pause" to a joystick within the game
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox 360 & Series X/S controllers.[1]
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Generic DirectInput controllers are supported.
Button prompts Input settings icon - Generic Controller.svg
Additional information
Button prompts Input settings icon - Generic Controller.svg
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music & sound effects
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail and GOG.com only. Download.
German
Retail and GOG.com only
Hungarian
Fan translation
Italian
Retail only. Download.
Russian
Not available in the Steam version
Spanish
Retail only. Download.
Turkish
Fan translation

VR support

Issues unresolved

Caused by an incompatibility with the sound drivers or codecs audio. The only solution is to play the game by disabling audio from the setup launcher, but this is not an adequate solution.

Issues fixed

"binkw32.dll" not found

Replace binkw32.dll[2]
  1. Download the Bink Video 1.0a DLL.
  2. Copy binkw32.dll to the game directory.

Visible window border in full screen mode

The game is not displayed correctly in full screen on Windows 8 and later.
Use Tomb Raider series full screen border fix

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

Mods

For game mods visit Core Design.

The tomb4 project

A decompilation project that, first and foremost aims to document and preserve the original source code and assets of the game, and secondly, aims to provide bug fixes and gameplay improvements in many sections of the game. Utilizes a .dll file to inject decompiled code into the executable.

Tomb Raider Forums thread

TR4 HD FMV Pack

Upscales the FMV's at 4K Resolution

TREP2

A "flexible patcher" which unlocks many game hidden features

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:


System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 6.1 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/224980/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (224980) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References