First post, by BowToYourSensei
Hi guys, I'm looking for some help. I'm trying to get tomb raider running with hardware acceleration. I'm using a compaq deskpro EN. It's a small form factor with a pentium III 1ghz, 512mb ram, and has a built in Riva tnt2/tnt2 pro. I think the built in graphics card may be my problem.
I bought and installed a voodoo 1, it's a diamond card. Usually, when there is a graphics card installed in the PCI slots, it bypasses the tnt2. But the Voodoo 1 require the on-board video alongside it to work. I used a y-splitter vga cable to take the video from the tnt2 card to pass through the Voodoo. I installed the 3dfx patch from the Tomb Raider CD in the installation directory and its named tomb.exe. but when I play the game, it appears to be running in its unaccelerated mode, in 480p. I conclude this because the shadows have hard lines in the gradients. And when I push F2/F3, it's resizes the screen. I thought F2 was supposed to turn on and off the anti aliasing? Of the videos I've seen of the Voodoo/tomb raider combo, the shadows should be smooth?
My conclusion is the tnt2 is causing this. So I'm wondering if maybe installing an older 2d card such as a Matrox, to bypass the tnt2 card, in combination with Voodoo might resolve this issue? Or am I missing something about getting the game to run accelerated?
