Are you using a joystick?
When I had Tomb Raider freeze at the menu, it was because the game had a conflict with my joystick.

No joystick or gamepad. Just a GF2. It's not a sound conflict either. If I disable sound, I still have the same problem. I tried the demo as well, and the same thing happens.

With a TNT2 M64, it works fine.

Maybe your AGP slot doesn't like Geforce cards. I've seen this happening before. Do you have the latest BIOS for your mobo?

I can rule out the actual PC as being the issue, since Ive tried 4 different Geforce 2MX cards across 3 completely different PCs. a P2, a P3, and a P4, all with the latest BIOS. It's more far more likely that TR1 doesn't like. NVidia Drivers are not a factor either, since this is a DOS game.

I've even tried using nolfb.com in a batch file, in the hope that it might help, but no luck. 🙁

Does it happen in both low and high resolutions? Is there a patch for the game?

Good question. I've only tried it on high resolution, which I think is either 640x480 or 640x400. I'll try and switch to a low res and see if that makes a difference.

As for patches, I can't remember which ones I've tried up to now, but I don't think there's much in the line of official patches for TR1.

Update: Hmm. I can't even access setup.exe with the Geforce 2 card. If I do I just get a black screen and the PC freezes.

Update 2: I have no idea how to switch to low res, withou being able to get to the menu. The moment I reach the main menu after the opening cinematics, it freezes. 🙁

Totempole, it's been a while since I played Tomb Raider 1 on a "fast" retro PC, but I do seem to remember similar problems with Nvidia cards. It would usually hang at the main menu for me. What's the rest of your system like?

I suggest installing the TNT2 M64 back in (or maybe some other card that may even do hardware acceleration for this game) and beating the game. There's probably nothing wrong with your GeForce2 cards and the rest of the system, just Tomb Raider being picky.

IIRC high resolution mode was accessed from a command line. Without it, it ran on low-res by default. Maybe you'll have to use the 3dfx patch along with a Glide wrapper to play it in your system.

Not via command line. I'm pretty sure I pressed one of the F keys to get into high res mode. I wouldn't want to run it in low res anyway, but it moght help me get closer to a solution if it does in fact work in low res mode.

The PC I want to run it on is a PII 450Mhz. Too slow to handle glide wrappers properly.

Edit: I've just realized I've asked about this before about 6 months ago. 😊
Tomb Raider 1 on Geforce 2 MX-400
I never did come right with those glide wrappers though.

Even funnier is the fact that there was the same back and forth between you and filipeto on that thread. 🤣

Pressing F1 switches between VGA and SVGA in Tomb Raider. Totempole, do you own any 3dfx cards? Tomb Raider also had accelerated versions for the PowerVR PCX2, Matrox Mystique and ATi Rage, so you can use those as well.

I have a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP card, but it's severely lacking in the D3D department, and compatibility is not great. The Geforce 2 is an extremely compatible card for 90's games, TR1 is the only problem I've come across so far.