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Tomb Raider (1996)

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Tomb Raider (1996)
Tomb Raider (1996) cover
Developers
Core Design
Publishers
Eidos Interactive
Release dates
DOS November 14, 1996
Windows 1997
Mac OS (Classic) March 1999
Tomb Raider (1996) guide on StrategyWiki
Tomb Raider (1996) on Wikipedia
Tomb Raider (1996) 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
Lara Croft (series)
Tomb Raider (2013) 2013
Lara Croft GO 2015
Rise of the Tomb Raider 2016
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2018
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered 2024

This page is for the original game. For the remake, see Tomb Raider: Anniversary. For the reboot, see Tomb Raider (2013).

Key points

Use Tomb Raider Retail Fix to run the game on modern systems without DOSBox.
Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS.[1]

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

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
See Run the game without DOSBox.
DOS
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes Tomb Raider II and Tomb Raider III. DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows

Version differences

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

Essential improvements

Run the game without DOSBox

Comes with additional useful features.
Instructions
Instructions

Enable full draw distance

Instructions

Enable PlayStation water color palette

Instructions

"Shadow of the Cat" and "Unfinished Business" bonus chapters

Instructions

Hide 3dfx splash screen

Instructions

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:

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224960/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224960/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

300px
DOSBox settings (GOG.com version)
Detail levels menu.
Detail levels menu.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Menu spins with a controller connected

Instructions

Can't Alt+Tab (GOG.com)

Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

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

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/224960/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (224960) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References