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First post, by cagey_bee

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hi. im sure all of the tomb raider issues have already been discussed and solved, ive read all of the instructions and forum messages but still i cannot manage to solve my problem.

Ive had no problems playing tomb raider1 with glidos so i know that whatever the problem is ..must be with my computer settings.
ive downloaded from the net "unfinished bussiness" (6mega exe file..so i dont know exactly if its all it takes..or just a demo..or just a few levels).
ive installed the levels correctly and this is what i do:

1. i cannot play the game unless i right click tombub.exe and then run with VDMS (so the game does not use glidos). The graphics are not that bad.. (somehow better than the original tomb raider 1 but worse than with the help of glidos) .. however it cries for glidos.

2. ive downloaded the 3dfx tombub and started the game through glidos.
the game starts as it should but after i open "the passport" and hit load or new game...it sends me back to windows with no warning what so ever...

note: i do not have the original tombraider1 cd. (is this a must?) 😖

my glidos.ini file looks like this after deleting some lines including the exesizes (i did that after reading some problems other people had..):

Name: Unfinished Business
Executable: C:\Tombraid\Tombub.exe
DosGraphics: Yes
VESASupport: Yes
ControlJudderFix: 1
Resolution: 2
FullScreen: Yes
ForcedTextureSmoothing: Yes

what else should i tell you?

Reply 1 of 2, by Glidos

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I've never done this myself, but I know it can be done. I think it might be that you need a paricular version of the 3dfx tombub.exe; possibly there is a version of the UB levels bundled with the correct exe.

Secondly, I thought you did need the TR CD in the drive for all versions of the downloadable UB, but I guess that can't be true if you have been able to get the non-3dfx version working

Reply 2 of 2, by Kaminari

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cagey_bee wrote:

i do not have the original tombraider1 cd. (is this a must?) 😖

AFAICT, yes. At least it doesn't run here if I don't put in either the TR CD or the TR Gold CD.