Tomb Raider: Legend
Please read through the DirectX section of this document. This section has information that is vital to successfully running Tomb Raider: Legend on your system.
This game is optimised for Microsoft's DirectX 9.0c. In order for you to play the game, you must have DirectX 9.0c compliant drivers for your video card and sound card. Please note that although DirectX 9.0c is installed with the game, your video and sound card drivers will not be upgraded to DirectX 9.0c drivers.
You will need to obtain the latest DirectX 9.0c drivers from your card manufacturer or PC supplier. These drivers cannot be supplied by Eidos.
While the game will run fine in 256 Mb of RAM, your playing experience will be smoother if you have at least 512 Mb.
Regardless of how much memory you have, you can maximize your available memory and increase the overall performance of the game engine by doing the following:
q Closing any open windows
q Shutting down all other programs, including menu-bar programs like ICQ
q Defragmenting your hard drive
Eidos recommends that you have no other programs running at all while playing Tomb Raider: Legend. Other programs, including virus checkers, system utilities and screen savers can cause system degradation when playing games software and may conflict with the game for system resources, potentially resulting in instability and crashes.
1.3 Known Issues
q Ensure you are running latest drivers from nVidia and ATI.
Crystal Dynamics, Nixxes Software and Eidos Interactive are committed to providing customer support for our games on a continuing basis. In that spirit, there may be a patch for Tomb Raider: Legend forthcoming; visit the Eidos website for more information.
http://www.eidos.com/
http://www.tombraider.com
q Stuttering while running High End
When running the next-generation features, a small number of people may experience slight frame rate instability (stuttering) during game play. This is a video card driver problem and you must make sure you have downloaded the latest drivers for your video card. Card manufacturer’s websites where you can obtain these are listed at the end of this ReadMe file.
q Graphical issues 1
There are some areas in the game when you may experience some graphical problems (corrupt / missing textures) when running the next-generation features. Again you will need to make sure that you have the latest drivers from your video card manufacturer to help solves these problems.
q Updates
We are committed to bringing you the best game experience possible therefore its likely that we will keep your version up to date with patch downloads from time to time. Installing Game Shadow ™ will help keep your version of Tomb Raider: Legend up to date. Customer support details can be found at the end of this ReadMe.
To download drivers, you need to contact your computer manufacturer (or motherboard manufacturer if your computer custom built).
The minimum system requirements are as follows:
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Microsoft Windows 2000, XP
CPU:
Pentium 3 1.0Ghz or Athlon XP Equivalent
RAM:
256MB
GRAPHICS:
100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64 MB 3D Accelerated Card with TnL (GeForce 3Ti / Radeon 9 series)
SOUND:
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP compatible sound card (100% DirectX 9.0c -compatible)
DVD-ROM:
Quad-speed (4x) DVD-ROM drive
HARD DRIVE:
9.9GB free disk space
INPUT DEVICES:
100% Windows 2000/XP compatible mouse and keyboard
The recommended system requirements are as follows:
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz or Athlon XP Equivalent
1GB
100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 512 MB 3D Accelerated Card (Nvidia GeForce 7800 / Ati X-1800)
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP compatible sound card (100% DirectX 9.0c compatible)
Eight-speed (8x) DVD-ROM drive or faster
To ensure that your installation is trouble free, you should check to see that your hard drive and file system are both tuned for optimum performance. Windows comes with two utility programs that find and fix any errors and optimise your hard drive performance. The first of these programs is called scandisk. Scandisk will check your hard drive for problems and can fix any that it finds. You can run scandisk by clicking on the Start button from the Windows Taskbar, followed by Programs, then Accessories, then System Tools, and finally scandisk.
Once scandisk has finished running, you should next optimise your hard drive's performance by running a program called Disk Defragmenter. You can run Disk Defragmenter by clicking on the Start button from the Windows desktop, followed by Programs, then Accessories, then System Tools, and finally Disk Defragmenter.
Installing Tomb Raider: Legend
Installing Tomb Raider: Legend is easy. Simply insert the DVD into your DVD-ROM drive. After a few seconds, the Launch Panel will appear.
This program will guide you through the remaining process via onscreen prompts. If at any time you are instructed to restart your computer, do so.
In the event the Launch Panel does not appear when you insert the DVD:
Double-click on the My Computer icon, then double-click on the DVD-ROM icon, and lastly double-click on the autorun.exe file to bring up the Launch Panel OR:
q Click on the Start button.
q Choose Run from the pop-up menu.
q Type d:\autorun in the box provided (where d: designates your DVD-ROM drive letter).
q Click on the OK button to begin the install program.
You will be prompted to select the path and directory to which you wish to install the game on your hard drive. The default is
C:\Program Files\Tomb Raider Legend
You may change this if you wish to.
At some point, the Microsoft DirectX 9.0c install prompt will appear if you do not have it on your system already. Please read the on-screen information before selecting an option. You may either choose to install or not install at this time. If the Tomb Raider: Legend installer detects an active version of DirectX 9.0c on your system, we encourage you to not reinstall DirectX. If the installer does not detect DirectX 9.0c, you must install it before you are able to play Tomb Raider: Legend (please refer to the next section of this guide before proceeding).
Once the install has finished the Launch Panel will appear on the screen.
Simply click on the Play button to start the game.
You may also:
q Click on the Uninstall button to uninstall the game.
q Click on the View Readme button to view the readme file.
q Click on the Exit button to exit the Launch Panel.
If you are going to play the game at a later time insert the DVD into the DVD-ROM drive. After a few seconds, the Tomb Raider: Legend Launch panel should appear on the screen via the AutoPlay feature. Now click on the Play button to start the game. There is also a button present to Exit.
In the event the AutoPlay feature does not work, you may click on the My Computer icon and then click on the DVD-ROM icon to bring up the Launch Panel.
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