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Alright, so I followed the instructions located here (http://www.tombraiderhub.com/faq/tr1.html), and I opted to take the "Tomb Raider Gold" installation path, and downloaded the added levels. When I start the game up, and start a new game, is it supposed to start with the Shadow of the Cat add-on level first? Note: I've never actually played the original Tomb Raider; I started playing the series at "The Last Revelation", truth be told, and I'm just going back and catching up on the older games I'd never played.
Additionally, I've been playing through the first Shadow of the Cat level, and I'm totally stuck. In Return to Egypt (http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/tr1/gold/walkthrough/level01.html), I'm right here:
This time go to the left to emerge to a sandy area. Turn right and again right to reach a path. As you pass through it, the cat statue at the top ahead transforms into a panther. Go to the end of the path and turn right to face the rocks. Climb on them and kill the panther. Then jump to the rocks where the panther was and go through the opening on the left.
I killed the panther, but the "jump on the rocks" part is a little vague, and I'm really lost and confused.
Any help on either of those issues would be appreciated. :)
Yep, first there are two levels in Egypt, namely Return to Egypt and Temple of the Cat, and then two more in Atlantis
If I'm not mistaken you should go forward to the spikes, kill another panther, go where it was and climb up to the place where 1st panther was. Then jump forward and grab the edge, hop up and do a running jump to the left over the slope - find a secret. Carefully go down the path and return to the spikes, you'll see a movable block on your left: push it twice and proceed ;)
Yep, first there are two levels in Egypt, namely Return to Egypt and Temple of the Cat, and then two more in Atlantis
I think you're misunderstanding my question... I installed Tomb Raider Gold using the installer, and I run the shortcut to launch the game... and Unfinished Business starts. Does Tomb Raider 1 start with the Unfinished Business levels in Egypt, or is there something wrong, and Tomb Raider 1 should start with different levels?
Oooh, I think I now understood what you meant. TR1 and TR1 Gold are two separate games following the same storyline, sort of. Since you installed Gold, you installed the 4 extra levels. If you install the original TR1, you install the game with the original 16 levels, which starts in Peru. So you thought if you install TR1 Gold, it would install both the original AND the extra levels? Because they have to be installed and played separately
Oooh, I think I now understood what you meant. TR1 and TR1 Gold are two separate games following the same storyline, sort of. Since you installed Gold, you installed the 4 extra levels. If you install the original TR1, you install the game with the original 16 levels, which starts in Peru. So you thought if you install TR1 Gold, it would install both the original AND the extra levels? Because they have to be installed and played separately
Ah, alrighty, that makes sense; so to play the original game, I just go back and run the installer and pick Tomb Raider Original, and that'll install the original game?
Yep, that should do it ;)
Awesome, thanks for the help. :)
Alright, the game works, but for some reason it crashed to the desktop while I was in the middle of Peru, and now my savegame is all screwed up. :( I don't even know what happened.
Savegames are screwed? The TR1 or TR1 Gold savegames? Because they're not compatible with each other xP Did you get an error message? Also, the very first time I tried to load a saved game the game crashed, but after that it's been working fine for me.
So, where excactly it crashed? While loading an FMV? While playing? Did you press Alt and space at the same time?
Edit: If you installed VDMSound, you can turn off the Alt+Space like this: Right-click the shortcut, select Properties, from the tab VDMSound, select Advanced... from the bottom, then from the tab Program, untick the box that says Alt+Space. You'll want it off anyway if you're using the default controls so you can jump and draw guns simultaneously xP
I was playing Tomb Raider 1, I was in Peru, I saved the game at some point, continued playing, and a few minutes later I found myself staring at my desktop because the game had apparently crashed (although I didn't get any sort of error message). Maybe I pressed ALT + space at the same time, I'm not sure. But when I re-loaded the game, my saved game didn't work at all.
Xen, are you on Intel double core CPU? If yes, then set the affinity for process ntvdm.exe to CPU0 ;) That will solve your problem...
Remove that savegame from your TOMBRAID folder.
Read this (http://www.tombraiderforums.com/showpost.php?p=1085413&postcount=7)for instructions to set the affinity. :)
Xen, are you on Intel double core CPU? If yes, then set the affinity for process ntvdm.exe to CPU0 ;) That will solve your problem...
How'd you know I was running a dual-core processor? Lucky guess? :)
Thanks for the tip, though; I'd have never figured that out on my own.
It is no lucky guess, this is a known phenomenon on dual core / hyperthreadeed CPU's. ;)
Either way, looks like the fix worked! Thanks again for all the help.
Either way, looks like the fix worked! Thanks again for all the help.
Yep! :tmb: And if you were AMD then no problem at all ;)
Yep! :tmb: And if you were AMD then no problem at all ;)
Oh, I don't know, I kinda like my Intel Pentium-D 3.4Ghz dual-core processor. ;)
Don't worry! It's the only problem of Intel Dual Core CPUs... concerning TR at least ;)
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