First post, by ableeker
Hi,
I've been playing TR once again in glorious 3D mode without a Voodoo, and it's running beautifully, thanks to Glidos! Nothing worked, not even installing my old Voodoo 1 or 2 again, but Glidos, and it looks every bit as good (as far as I can remember, it's been a few years)! Soon after I had it working with Glidos, I registered, and I tell you, I'm impressed with Paul's work. I'm pretty sure a number of folks told us back then we could run Glide2x.dll using a Gilde wrapper, but it would be quite impossible to run Glide2x.ovl games! 😉
There's one thing, though, I used to play TR from my hard disk, not needing the CD at all, by using a patched Tomb.exe and Tombub.exe (these are all renamed 3dfx versions, of course). These versions used to work just fine, but they don't work with Glidos, so I had to dig up my original CD before I was able to play, and it's once again more or less permanently lodged in the drive (N). However, I'd rather not use the CD, not wanting to run the risk of damaging it! I know, I can make a copy, but I'd rather be able to do without it, and put the original away safely. I've copied all the files from the CD to the hard disks, and I could do without the music, I guess.
I used a patched Tomb.exe (1,140,735 bytes), and modified Glidos.ini like so:
Name: Tomb Raider
Executable: C:\Tombraid\Tomb.exe
ExeSizes: 1140735
DosGraphics: Yes
ControlJudderFix: 1
Resolution: 2
FullScreen: Yes
ForcedTextureSmoothing: Yes
I modified the ExeSizes, and deleted entry CDCheckFile. This doesn't work. Glide Server starts, and when I click Start game, it loads VDMSound, and starts Tomb.exe, but instead of displaying the white splash screen (and starting the game), it justs shuts down to the desktop, and Glide Server displays no messages at all. This even happens if the CD is in the drive (N).
As a matter of fact, if I use the original Tomb.exe, the same thing happens if I leave my Zip drive (M) empty! Unfortunately, putting a Zip disk in the drive doesn't work for the patched exe. Actually, it would be nice if I didn't have to put in a Zip disk as well, them being rather fragile.
Does anybody have an idea how I can get the patched exes to run?
Thanks,
Aldo Bleeker