Hello all,

I'm currently trying to get Tomb Raider (the original) to run on my laptop. It's a Packard Bell iGo 2000 series with the following spec:

Athlon XP 1800+
256MB PC133 RAM
DVD/CD-RW Drive as Q:
Avance AC97 Audio
Savage S3 Graphics

Running: Windows XP Home 2002 Version

NOTE: I am using the Sold Out version of Tomb Raider.

OK, so, a while back I installed TR for the first time. It ran, but there was no sound. Did a search, and quickly found the page over at TR Forums with the patches for the various operating systems, and a link to VDMSound.

Downloaded one of the (now) old versions and installed it. Ran TR. No music, but there were gunshots, etc. That'll do me, I thought. I then had a shitload of work for about a month, and TR was forgotten. Until yesterday.

I've now played up to a point in the game where there is a cutscene. This cutscene has no sound. This is very annoying. I came back and downloaded the new VDMS, having been told that something called SAPUCDEX could solve my problem.

So, here's what I've done so far:

I right clicked the INSTALL.EXE file on the CD, and selected "Run with VDMS." It autodetected the sound settings and installed just fine, but crashed on exit.

I went into the TR directory on the HDD, and right-clicked the TOMB.EXE file, selecting "Run with VDMS" as I had before, It crashed right after the Eidos logo, I think. When I exited, I got hold of the VDMS shortcut, having read another thread on here, and did this:

Enabled low-level (MSCDEX) CD-ROM support.
Disabled joystick emulation.
Disabled CLI/POPF workaround.
Specified "SAPUCDEX" in the Dos Environment tab under "additional options."

Then I ran it. No success. The game itself works, but there's no music or cutscene dialogue. Annoying thing is that on both the menus and in-game, the CD indicator LED is going nuts, showing that the drive is being accessed, but nothing is coming out. And I cannot play the CD audio tracks in WMP. They sound blank.

So where am I going wrong? Any help that can be given on this would be much appreciated. I am desperate to get this working properly.

Tanthalas