Tomb Raider II

Tomb Raider II

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Best way to play Tomb Raider II on PC
By Dеfrаgо
This guide provides best way to play Tomb Raider II on PC so far. We're going to use TR2Main project from Arsunt
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TR2Main
TR2Main project by Arsunt started in 2017. It keeps being developed and now provides best game experience of TRII on PC.

Download link is into video description

Patch brings correct Aspect Ratio look into game making it, including fonts, no longer looking stretched no matter what resolution you use.

Quick list of things that are added/fixed

• Bigger Health- and Airbars which size is calculated based of your resolution. You can manually tweak it's size from predefined dimensions
• Bigger pickup notifiers. Fonts and notifiers size can be manually tweaked from predefined dimensions
• HD Textures Support
• Controllers support, including PlayStation, XBox and others. Separate Controls for Keyboard and Controllers with no need to remapping your binds each time you disconnecting your controller
• Full The Golden Mask expansion support
• Cheats (TombPC.dat modification required)

Many features ported from PlayStation version

• Waving Menu
• Colorful Gradient Bars (can be reverted back to PC look if you prefer)
• Flare and Gunflashes
• Reflection effects on Swords and Spinning Blades
• Menu Looking
• Loading Screens

Installation
To install it, you have to put TR2Main package content inside your game folder (can be found via properties > local cache). tomb2.exe must be replaced. When everything installed correctly, you should see those files and folders:



You can also have files like WINPLAY.dll, WINSDEC.dll and WINSTR.dll. After installing this patch they are no longer needed and safe to remove. Files that are shown on screenshot are essential

ExtraOptions folder contains configuration .reg files that allows you to tweak the game to your preferences. You can ignore them and use default look that game provides at the 1st launch.

New Controls page look


Game no longer "forgets" your custom mappings so you don't have to choose "User Keys" each time you restart it. Also if you have a Controller, it has it's own mapping page. With original game you can map Controller buttons OR Keyboard ones, now you can have both.

Saves
If you already have save files (savegame.0, savegame.1 etc.) you should move them into saves or savesGold (in case of The Golden Mask save) subfolders



DO NOT combine this patch with other tools like Peixoto, dgVooDoo, Controller mappers like DS4Windows, JoyToKey, XPadder and others as they break things. TR2Main support modern Windows systems and Controllers "out of the box".

29 Comments
MorYang 17 Aug @ 4:50am 
For those who want to turn steam overlay just go to game folder and uncheck compatibility mode with windows xp)
MorYang 17 Aug @ 4:28am 
Its works pretty well. Thanks for guide. But is it possible to enable steam overlay with this fix? And how?
Vintage 13 May, 2024 @ 10:15am 
Does this contain the level bug fixes for floating islands and nightmare in vegas?
Anthony 14 Dec, 2023 @ 5:31am 
If you go into the properties of the game on Steam and add "gold" in the launch parameters you can play the expansion by launching the game from Steam, which also means you can take screenshots (at least if they worked for you with the main game, it did for me) and it will count towards your playtime
مسلمين 22 Nov, 2023 @ 7:36am 
when using this for some reason the inventory screen has the music removed, how do i fix this?
Vault Girl (Moira ♥) 11 Nov, 2023 @ 9:05am 
Join my group Steam: Butler Winston in the fridge !!!! Thanks you! :heartp:
ConCentrik 17 Oct, 2023 @ 1:23am 
@iam_Owen I get the same issue. Launches fine but no cut scene at the start (only audio) then the game crashes.
Sonoio 17 Sep, 2023 @ 3:40am 
There is a way to play it with other language than english or is only english?
fl-0x 20 Aug, 2023 @ 7:28pm 
Actually this is way better than Tomb Raider II (2) Automated Fix by Carlmundo. I've tested both TR2Main and Automated Fix and TR2Main works better. Sadly none of them allowed me to screenshot gameframe using steamoverlay I did even tried to change keybindings from f12 screenshot to some random keys but none of those were solution to me.

tl;dr Pick TR2Main instead of Tomb Raider Automated Fix (both patches/expieriences are good, but in my opinion TR2Main is way better)
Godders 15 Jul, 2023 @ 5:19am 
Is there any way to map quicksave/load to clicking the sticks with this patch?