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Tomb Raider II GOLD: The Golden Mask Demo ----------------------------------------- This is a one level demo of one of the exciting, soon-to-be-released, new TOMB RAIDER 2 GOLD LEVELS! DEMO NOTES ========== *This demo DOES NOT require the original Tomb Raider 2 CD in order to play but the other Tomb Raider 2 Gold levels will when they are made available for download in the coming weeks. If you currently own Tomb Raider 2, place the CD in your CD-ROM drive while playing this demo and you'll hear the proper CD audio tracks. Controls (DEFAULTS) ------------------- Cursor keys General movement ALT Jump CTRL Action (shoot or climb) Also use this key to open/close the Passport. SPACE Draw/holster weapons SHIFT Walk (when used with the arrow keys) INS Look / Draw/throw flare ESC Inventory/Options SNOWMOBILE CONTROLS (defaults) ============================== CTRL Use this key when Lara is positioned next to the snowmobile to climb on it. Depending on which type of snowmobile she's on, the CTRL key will either make the snowmobile accelerate or fire machine guns. Cursor keys Controls movement of snowmobile ALT Makes Lara climb off the snowmobile (when used with either the left or right cursor key) *NOTE: Users can setup their own control configurations and gamepads. See section "Joysticks and Gamepads" below for more details. Graphic Accelerators -------------------- If you experience any problems with your 3D accelerator graphics card, please refer to the manufacturer for updated drivers. Below is the latest README file from the full version of TOMB RAIDER II. If you have any questions/problems with this demo, the solution will hopefully be listed below... Tomb Raider II - Readme File VER 1.1 ==================================== Contents -------- Hardware Requirements Installation In-game Hot Keys 3D Graphic Cards CD-ROM Drives Sound Cards Technical Help Setup Joysticks & Gamepads Tomb Raider II Related Web Sites Technical Support Hardware Requirements --------------------- * Windows '95 compatible computer system, requires DirectX 5.0 * Pentium 90 processor (133 MHZ or greater recommended) * 16 MB RAM required (32 MB RAM recommended) * 4X CD-ROM drive required * 100% Windows '95/98 DirectX compatible sound card required * All 100% Direct3D compliant accelerator cards are supported Tomb Raider II will not run on Windows NT 4.0 (even with Service pack 4), and was not designed to run on Laptops. Installation ------------ To install Tomb Raider II to your hard drive: 1. Place the Tomb Raider II CD in your CD-ROM drive. 2. After a few seconds, the Autorun Menu will come on screen. Select the Install option. If this menu does not appear, click the Start button, select Run and type D:\autorun (where D is the letter of your CD-ROM drive), then click OK. 3. The program will detect whether you have certified DirectX 5 drivers which allow Tomb Raider II to run properly under all configurations. Your current drivers may be updated as necessary. 4. The Tomb Raider II installation routine will then install the game files to your hard drive. At the end of the installation, you may be prompted to Restart your computer. 5. Upon completion of installation, run Setup to make sure your graphics card is configured properly. 6. Click the Play button on the Autorun Menu or select Tomb Raider II in the Core Design folder on the Start Menu to begin the game. In-game Hot Keys ---------------- F1 Reduce graphics resolution F2 Increase graphics resolution Shift F1 Reduce color depth Shift F2 Increase color depth F3 Reduce screen size F4 Increase screen size F5 Save Game F6 Load Game F7 Toggle Z-buffering on / off F8 Toggle bilinear filtering on / off Shift F8 Toggle perspective correction on / off F11 Toggle dithering on / off S Screenshot Do not map the S key to any control in the game. Each time the S key is pressed, a screenshot will be saved to the Tomb Raider II directory. The file will be saved in targa format, and named "tomb0000.tga". There is no hot key to exit Tomb Raider II. To exit the game, you can press ALT-F4, or do the following: Press the ESC key, press down arrow, press the Enter key on the Passport (Game) icon, press right arrow twice (Exit to Title) and press the Enter key. Once you are at the Main Title Screen, Press Enter on the Passport (Game) icon and right arrow twice (Exit Game) and press the Enter key. NOTE: If you own a 3D accelerator card, please read the 3D Graphic Cards and Technical Help sections. They may contain important information related to your card, which you will need in order to get Tomb Raider II to run properly. 3D Graphic Cards ---------------- Tomb Raider II supports all 100% Direct3D compliant graphic cards. This means that Tomb Raider II will run on every 3D accelerator card, providing that you have installed DirectX 5.0, and you have installed drivers for your 3D card which support all of the features of DirectX 5.0 required by Tomb Raider II. Due to the fact that DirectX 5.0 is a very recent release, there are a few known problems with the current sets of drivers that are available for the various 3D graphic card chipsets. As new drivers become available, many of these problems will be fixed. Graphics card manufacturers constantly update their drivers. If you are running the game on a 3D accelerator card, make sure you have the latest drivers available for your card. See the Tomb Raider II Related Web Sites section for a list of web sites where you will be able to obtain the very latest drivers for your graphics card. Rendition Verite 1000 On certain Rendition Verite 1000 cards, Tomb Raider II may crash out to the desktop immediately after the copyright screen is displayed, due to an inability to play the Full Motion Videos. If you experience this problem, you can turn off the FMV's in the game, by selecting the Advanced tab in Setup, and checking the Disable FMV box. If you wish to view the FMV's in the game, updated drivers for your Rendition card are included on the CD, in the Drivers\Rendition 1000 directory. This set of drivers is more recent than the drivers installed by DirectX 5. Installation instructions are provided in the readme file in the same directory. DirectX 5.0 will replace your Rendition card manufacturer's drivers, with the generic drivers that are included with DirectX 5.0. You may need to go back to your original drivers, in order to get the game working properly. The easiest method to accomplish this is: 1. Right-click on the desktop and select Properties. 2. In the Display Properties, click on the Settings tab. 2. Select Change Display Type or Advanced Properties. 3. At the top of the screen, your Adapter should be listed as "Rendition Verite". Click the Change button on the right, and you will see a list of available drivers for your graphic card. 4. Click on the driver that is NOT labeled Rendition Verite and click OK. S3 Virge VX/GX/DX If you experience any problems with your S3 Virge VX/GX/DX card, the latest drivers are available on the Tomb Raider II CD in the Drivers\S3 Virge directory. Installing these drivers will help to fix problems that you may encounter. PowerVR PCX1 On PowerVR cards with the PCX1 chip, the text in all of the menus may not be displayed to the screen. To fix this, turn off Z-Buffering by pressing the F7 key, or make sure that the Z Buffer option is unchecked in the graphics setup screen. Watch for the release of updated drivers from Power VR which may completely fix this problem. 3Dfx In rare instances, Tomb Raider II will not detect 3Dfx cards. If you have a 3Dfx card installed, and experience this problem, it is probably because the 3Dfx driver is listed under the Multimedia heading, instead of Sound, video and game controllers in the System Properties/Device Manager. You will need to get the latest 3Dfx drivers for your card, remove your current drivers and install the new drivers. 3Dfx Voodoo Rush (Intergraph Intense 3D & Hercules Stingray) The 3Dfx Voodoo Rush cards are properly detected by Tomb Raider 2. The game will list the available driver under Graphics Card as "Primary Display Driver". This is the Direct3D driver that enables TR2 to run properly with a great number of 3D cards, including the Voodoo Rush cards. While running TR2 on the Voodoo Rush cards, if the graphics tend to flicker or blink, you will need run Setup Tomb Raider II, and turn on all of the Graphics options under the Graphics tab, including Triple Buffer. This should alleviate the problem. CD-ROM drives If you have a computer system with more than 1 CD-ROM drive, or a CD changer - Tomb Raider II runs most efficiently when theTRII CD is in the first CD-ROM drive. The game will run in any of the CD drives, but you may not get redbook CD audio, and you may experience some slowdown. Depending on your hardware configuration, the game will sometimes try to stream data from the primary CD drive. In order to get the best performance, we recommend using the first occurring CD-ROM drive (or slot if a multi-changer) with Tomb Raider II. Sound Cards Tomb Raider II requires that you have a sound card which fully supports DirectX 5.0. If you are getting loud static popping, or get no sound effects at all, you will need to update your sound card drivers to drivers that are compatible with DirectX 5.0. Please note that some sound card manufacturers do not have DirectX 5.0 compatible drivers yet. Until there is a driver available, you can try reducing the Wave volume in Volume Control. Double-click on the small speaker on the Windows task tray to open Volume Control. NOTE: THE TOMB RAIDER 2 GOLD DEMO DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY CD AUDIO. THE FINAL VERSION WILL. Technical Help -------------- There are many 3D accelerator cards available on the market, and they all will perform differently under the same conditions, depending on the chipset, amount of video memory, and drivers installed. The key to getting the best performance out of your graphics card is to set the card to a higher resolution, while maintaining a good frame rate with no texture loss. Many accelerator cards will run Tomb Raider II very efficiently at 640x480 High Color. If you notice texture drop out - white blank spots on menu text, objects, terrain and characters including Lara, you will need to lower the graphics resolution. You may change the graphics resolution in the setup window. You may also change the resolution whilst in the game by pressing the F1 key to lower the resolution, and F2 to raise the resolution. This problem may also be solved by turning the "Z-Buffering" option off. Use the F7 key to toggle Z-Buffering on and off. If none of these options are satisfactory, you may run the game using the software rendering mode by running Setup, and selecting "Software 256 Colour Renderer". If you are experiencing very low frame rates, you may want to lower the screen resolution. You can also reduce the screen size, which will leave a border around the viewable area. The F3 key will reduce the screen size, and the F4 key will increase the screen size. Reducing the resolution and screen size will help Tomb Raider II run faster. On some 3D cards, seaming may occur, drawing borders around polygons. This is most apparent when looking at the sky, which will have a tiled look to it. Turning off bi-linear filtering may help to fix this problem. Bi-linear filtering can be toggled on and off by pressing the F8 key. When using the Hot Keys in-game to increase the resolution, you will have to be a little careful. Some of the graphic options such as Z-Buffering can be supported at lower resolutions, but may not be supported at higher resolutions. If you increase the resolution in-game to a resolution which does not support the currently selected graphics options, the game may crash your system. For example, the 3Dfx card will not run the game with Z-Buffering on in 800x600 High Color mode. If you have Z-Buffering on, and increase the resolution in-game to 800x600 the game will crash. If you are getting any errors when running the game, such as runtime C++ error, or cannot find dinput.dll, reinstall DirectX 5.0. DirectX 5.0 can be installed directly from the Tomb Raider II CD by running the dxsetup.exe program from the directx directory. If you continue to have problems, please contact your hardware manufacturer. Setup ----- There are a large number of options available in the Setup window, which allow you to configure the graphics, sound and controls within the game. You may need to change some of the graphics settings to achieve the best possible performance (frame rate and detail level) on your particular graphics card. Please refer to the Technical Help section for more details on graphics configuration. The Setup window is accessed by clicking the Setup button on the Autorun Menu, or by selecting Setup Tomb Raider II from the Start menu. Click on one of the five tabs to select the page of options associated with it. The tabs available are: Options The Options page displays a list of your current graphics, sound and joystick settings. Graphics You are able to completely configure your graphics card settings on this page. Graphics Card Switch between your Primary Display Driver and the 3Dfx drivers (if available) Graphics Output Method If you have a 3D accelerator card, Hardware 3D Acceleration will be available, otherwise you will have to use the Software 256 Color Renderer, which will run the game without requiring a hardware accelerator. Graphics Options: Z Buffer Speeds the process of drawing polygons to the screen. Note 3DFX Voodoo cannot use this feature in resolution higher that 640x480. Bilinear Filter Smoothes out textures Dither Improves colors Triple Buffer May increase speed slightly, not supported by some cards Perspective Correct Eliminates inaccuracies and warping Display Type Run the game Full Screen or Windowed Full Screen Mode If Full Screen is selected, you will be able to select the resolution and color level in this drop down menu. The higher you set the resolution and color level, the higher the detail will be, but there will also be a loss of frame rate and possible texture drop out. Many cards run very efficiently at 640x480 High Color. Windowed Mode When Windowed is selected, use the slider to set the resolution. You can select the Width:Height ratio at the bottom. Test Settings Once you have configured the graphic settings, click the Test button to make sure your graphic card can operate under the current settings. PASSED indicates that the game will run properly. FAILED means you will not be able to run the game with the current settings. Use Defaults By clicking on this button, you will be able to change your graphics options back to the original settings when the game was first run. Sound Sound Card Choose between the DirectX Primary Sound driver, and the sound card's own Direct sound driver Microphone Position The microphone can follow the camera or always be placed on Lara Sound Output Enable Sound will enable the sound effects (not CD audio). Click Test to make sure your sound card is functioning properly. Controls Joystick Select which joystick or gamepad to use Configure Joystick Click Run Control Panel to open the Control Panel Joystick Input Enable or disable input from the joystick Advanced: Most users will want to leave the advanced settings as they are - changing these settings will affect the look of the game, but may increase frame rate. The default advanced settings leave the Various graphics options unchecked and Always adjust is selected under Texel Adjustment. Disable FMV When this is checked, the Full Motion Videos in the game will be disabled. Joysticks & Gamepads -------------------- Tomb Raider II supports a wide variety of Windows 95 compatible game controllers. However, there are no default settings for the joystick buttons, so you will need to assign the various controls to the joystick buttons yourself. If you notice that Lara will move around on her own (very annoying) or the items on the menu rings are constantly spinning. Your game controller is not compatible and you will need to disable it in the "Setup/Controls" menu. To assign the many differen actions to your controller follow these instructions. From the Main Title screen, highlight Controls (cursor keys icon) and press the Enter key. The Default Keys should now appear on screen. Press the right cursor key to bring up the User Keys screen. It is here that you will be able to assign the joystick buttons. Highlight the particular control you wish to assign by using the cursor keys. Press the Enter key to select that control, and then press the joystick button you wish to use. The text will flash on and off if you have assigned two controls to the same button. Once you have assigned controls for all of the joystick buttons, press the ESC key to exit the Controls screen. Tomb Raider II Related Web Sites -------------------------------- Tomb Raider http://www.tombraider.com Eidos Interactive http://www.eidosinteractive.com http://www.eidosgames.com Eidos Company Store http://www.eidosstore.com Core Design http://www.core-design.com DirectX information http://www.microsoft.com/directx/enduserguide.htm Win95 End User support http://www.microsoft.com/support/ Video Cards 3Dfx http://www.3dfx.com 3D Labs http://www.3dlabs.com ATI Technologies http://www.atitech.com Canopus http://www.canopuscorp.com Cirrus Logic http://www.cirrus.com Diamond Multimedia http://www.diamondmm.com Hercules http://www.hercules.com Intergraph http://www.intergraph.com Matrox http://www.matrox.com Number Nine http://www.nine.com NVidia http://www.nvidia.com Oak http://www.oaktech.com Orchid http://www.orchid.com PowerVR http://www.powervr.com Rendition http://www.rendition.com S3 http://www.s3.com Sierra http://www.sierra.com STB http://www.stb.com Trident http://www.tridentmicro.com TSENG Labs http://www.tseng.com/download/index.cgi Videologic http://www.videologic.com Soundcards Aztech labs http://www.aztechca.com Creative Labs http://www.creativelabs.com Ensoniq http://www.ensoniq.com Opti http://www.opti.com Turtle beach http://www.tbeach.com Yamaha http://www.yamahayst.com Control Devices CH Products http://www.chproducts.com Gravis http://www.gravis.com InterAct http://www.interact-acc.com Logitech http://www.logitech.com Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/products/hardware/ sidewinder/sidewinder.htm SpaceOrb 360 http://www.spaceorb.com Saitek http://www.saitek.com Thrustmaster http://www.thrustmaster.com Technical Support ----------------- Our demos are provided to you "as is". Most problems that you may expoerience will be found in this document. You may check our web site http://www.eidosinteractive.com/help.html for addtional information. We do not offer "live" support for this this program.