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First post, by buckeye

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Ok now that I have yer attention:

Just ordered TR1 from ebay and was hoping y'all could offer yer wisdom on getting it to run in a "dos window" or pure dos.

System is as follows:

P3 450mhz. (downgraded from 850)
Asus P3Bf
256mb
Geforce2 64mb (Hercules 3D Prophet) - nvidia drivers 6.31
Creative 3D Blaster 12mb V2 SLI - latest ref. drivers
Aureal Vortex 2 -drivers from CD
Win98/Dx7

I'm just confused by all the myriad of ways people got this to run so maybe someone can help this "old fossil" out.

Asus P5N-E Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33ghz. 4GB DDR2 Geforce 470 1GB SB X-Fi Titanium 650W XP SP3
Intel SE440BX P3 450 256MB 80GB SSD Asus V7700 GF2 64mb SB 32pnp 350W 98SE
MSI x570 Gaming Pro Carbon Ryzen 3700x 32GB DDR4 Zotac RTX 3070 8GB WD Black 1TB 850W

Reply 2 of 3, by buckeye

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Have yet to receive the game, just wanted some feedback on how others with similar hardware got it going. They're were several references to a "banshee patch" for V2 cards for it to work for instance.

Asus P5N-E Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33ghz. 4GB DDR2 Geforce 470 1GB SB X-Fi Titanium 650W XP SP3
Intel SE440BX P3 450 256MB 80GB SSD Asus V7700 GF2 64mb SB 32pnp 350W 98SE
MSI x570 Gaming Pro Carbon Ryzen 3700x 32GB DDR4 Zotac RTX 3070 8GB WD Black 1TB 850W

Reply 3 of 3, by RJDog

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I've gotten Tomb Raider 1 working with my Voodoo2 after a slight amount of fannagling... basically, the Banshee patch works fine and where its DOS, it doesn't matter about drivers in Windows or whatnot. The trick is to use the batch file (I found it around here on Vogons somewhere.... just too lazy to look for it right now...) but the gotcha that got me was that the default command.con's environment size is too small to remember all of the environment variables that need to be set -- the default size is 256 bytes. For me, this resulted in weird colors for some reason. Anyway, I needed to run command.com with /E:2048 (2048 bytes is more than enough).