Tomb Raider I-III Remastered

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered

Developers
Original games	Core Design
Remaster	Aspyr
Remaster	Saber Interactive
Publishers
	Aspyr
Release dates
Windows	February 14, 2024
Reception
Metacritic	72
OpenCritic	76
IGDB	71
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Adventure, Puzzle, TPS
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania
Series	Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered is a remastered release of Tomb Raider (1996), Tomb Raider II and Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft with their respective expansion packs. The remaster is developed by Aspyr and Saber Interactive and published by Aspyr. It contains all the original assets, and can switch back and forth between remastered and original graphics on the fly by pressing F1 on the keyboard or the Menu button on an Xbox controller.

On release the Epic Games Store version used a work-in-progress development build of the game with incomplete assets and debug symbols, causing confusion among players. This issue was corrected on February 29, 2024 with the release of the intended build on Epic Games Store. The final version of the development build was released on all platforms as Update 1 on March 12, 2024.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store
GamersGate
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
No microtransactions	None

Essential improvements

Skip legal info/disclaimer

Run the game with the -nolegal command line argument.
Notes: Run the game normally at least once and accept the EULA before using this command line argument; otherwise, the menu and inventory items will be invisible.

(GOG version) Delete or rename legal/logo splash screens
Navigate to <path-to-game>\1\PIX. Delete the following files: LEGAL_1.DSS LEGAL_2.DSS LEGAL_3.DSS LEGAL_4.DSS Notes: This fix is only needed if the -nolegal command line argument doesn't work.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\TRX\<user-id>\savegame.dat
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2478970/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\TRX\<user-id>\*.sav
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2478970/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Game uses desktop resolution by default. To run in a custom resolution, the game needs to be in windowed mode with the -width # -height # command line argument.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Hor+ gameplay; menus and pre-rendered cutscenes are pillarboxed.
4K Ultra HD		Game uses desktop resolution by default.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Use Alt+↵ Enter to switch to windowed mode and back.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Game's default fullscreen mode is a borderless window.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Defaults to on. Can be disabled by running the game with the -novsync command line argument.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Uncapped if running without vsync, while Classic mode is locked to 30 FPS and pre-rendered cutscenes are locked to 15 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

When viewing and changing control mappings, controls not used in the current game are greyed out; however, they can still be rebound regardless of the current game.

Input settings (same options in all three games, just different theming)

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Can't rebind to mouse side buttons. F1 and F3 (Graphic switch between Old/New and Photo Mode respectively) can't be rebound. Tank controls disable camera controls.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		X-axis inversion also available.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Graphic switch between Old/New and Photo Mode can't be rebound.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion		X-axis inversion also available.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		DualShock 4, DualSense
PlayStation button prompts		Uses DualShock 4 button prompts. Requires Steam Input to be disabled and to be plugged in via USB. Use Force PSX Button prompts on X-Input controllers to force PlayStation prompts on non-PlayStation controllers.
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes	Wired

Generic/other controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported		Both Tank Controls and Modern Controls presets can be used with both the D-pad and the analog stick.
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

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  Keyboard and mouse bindings.

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  Xbox controller bindings.

Audio

Audio settings (same options in all three games, just different theming)

TR1 uses lower quality SFX from the PS1 version & doesn't have an option to use higher quality sounds introduced in the DOS Version.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sliders for music and sound effects.
Surround sound		Stereo only.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

The game's UI, audio, and subtitle languages cannot be changed separately from one another. Changing the language of the game will change all aspects of the game to that language where applicable.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian				Italian dub only available in Tomb Raider II & III.
Japanese
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Slovak
Spanish				Spanish dub only available in Tomb Raider III.
Swedish
Turkish
Ukrainian

Issues unresolved

Noticeable frame stuttering

The game has noticeable frame stuttering when vsync is enabled, especially on Nvidia GPUs.

(Nvidia) Set Vulkan/OpenGL rendering to prefer DXGI interop
Notes: This completely resolves the issue.

(AMD/Intel) Force OpenGL triple buffering
Notes: This fix greatly reduces frame stuttering, but does not completely resolve the issue.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
OpenGL	3.2	Remastered mode requires OpenGL 4.2 or the ARB_texture_compression_bptc extension.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

Command line arguments

Command	Description
-ldpi	Disables high DPI support
-novsync	Disables V-sync
-width #	Sets exact game window width
-height #	Sets exact game window height
-nolegal	Skips legal notices and disclaimer at startup
-dev	Enables dev mode functions: slow motion (R), fast motion (T), demo recording (F6), demo playback (F7), free camera (F8)

Modifications

TR1 More Visible keys

Makes the in-game key collectibles, especially grey-colored ones, more visible.

Enable linear texture filtering in Original Graphics mode (Experimental)

Hex-edit tomb123.exe
Open tomb123.exe with a hex editor. Search for 00 26 00 00. Replace the 3rd and 4th hits with 01 26 00 00. Save the change. Notes: Linear filtering has some issues with texture edges.

Keep clothing changes outside Photo Mode

This mod keeps whatever clothes selection was made within Photo Mode when returning to gameplay.

Hex-edit game files
Open tomb1.dll, tomb2.dll and tomb3.dll with a hex editor. In each file, search for 02 00 00 00 0F 84 02 02 00 00. Replace with 02 00 00 00 E9 03 02 00 00 00. Save the change. Repeat until all three files have modified.

Customize in-game text

Change In-Game Text

Navigate to <path-to-game>\1\TEX. Select the folder of the desired language: e.g. EN = English. Open the COMMON.TXT file in a text editor: Each piece of text in the game is bound to a variable. For example: ACT_RUN shows text for changing controls text for Run PS_* variables are related to the photosenitive warnings. DC_P1 and DC_P2 are for the Content Warning messages. TI_P1 and TI_P2 displays Trademark messages. Make the desired changes. For example, the text for ACT_RUN can be changed from Run to Jog. Notes: This can especially be handy for localizing the game in languages not officially supported by the game. Users will need to edit the other text files inside the same directory to translate the rest of the game's text.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-3240 AMD FX-4100
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 730 AMD Radeon R7 240 DirectX 12 compatible

A 64-bit operating system is required.