Can't get Tomb Raider to work :(

[Tacoru]

Hi all,

I just bought a copy of Tomb Raider, and installed it. However whenever I hit the new game button and select my difficulty, the game crashes and windows message pops up saying it has crashed. Is there a fix to this? I've turned off Exclusive Full screen mode and turned off Tesselation and TressFX and it still won't let me play.

I'm using GTX Titan, and got the driver 314.22, and is running on Window's 8 pro 64 bit. Can anyone help me with this issue? Other games like Metro and Bioshock infinite runs fine but Tomb Raider.... I really want to play it!

Any suggestions or solutions?

Thanks

[GrimAquatic]

Try to run the game in compatibility mode and/or as an administrator.

[JackLaVaporiera]

Also try to get the 3.20 beta drivers, to check if your system is up to date and to disable Steam overlay, with your card you should have no issue at all with the game, even with tessellation tressfx and exclusive fullscreen on, I have a 690 and I've played the game flawlessy fully maxed ot (except SMAA instead of SSAA or FXAA) having only one freeze that I supposed was due to Steam updating itself to a beta version while having few downloads in schedule.

A log is usually created for each application crash and could be seen in the Windows Event Viewer, not sure were you can find it in W8 but it usually revolves around advanced system properties, I can help you more if you could post it here.

[Tacoru]

Thank you both for the suggestions! Really appreciate it.

I just turned off steam overlay for Tomb Raider, and it is now working! Thanks JackLaVaporiera.

Now I can finally enjoy the game :)

[JackLaVaporiera]

Originally posted by Tacoru:

Thank you both for the suggestions! Really appreciate it.

I just turned off steam overlay for Tomb Raider, and it is now working! Thanks JackLaVaporiera.

Now I can finally enjoy the game :)

It's been a pleasure. Glad you solved.

[Tacoru]

Ran into another problem. My game will crash during the cutscene where she lit a camp fire and picks up the camera. I turned the setting down lower, it didn't help. I installed 320.00 driver and it didn't solve it.

This is what I get in the event viewer:
Faulting application name: TombRaider.exe, version: 1.1.743.0, time stamp: 0x516bfa20
Faulting module name: ExSrv.dll, version: 5.0.13.905, time stamp: 0x4f9753a2
Exception code: 0xc0000005

[JackLaVaporiera]

Faulting module name: ExSrv.dll, version: 5.0.13.905

Your issue is related to an audio driver installed, to be more specific a C-Media integrated chipset, try finding a more up to date driver and carefully replace the old one, after completely uninstalling it, if you are using the integrated audio chipset, if you are using a discrete audio device instead also disable the integrated audio chipset in the BIOS after uninstalling its driver and do not reinstall it. Also, Nvidia cards do have a bypass for hdmi audio and installs a proprietary driver, if you are not using audio through hdmi, for example if you have a sound system directly attached to MB connectors or to the discrete audio card, uninstall the Nvidia audio driver as well, if you have your rig attached to a TV set AND are using audio signal by hdmi to output through the TV instead just reinstall the Nvidia drivers set doing a clean install (option through the installer) after everything accordingly else.

Hope it helps.

[Tacoru]

Thank you so much!

I disabled my integraded audio, and use my discrete sound card and it is working fine now. Hopefully it will be fine all the way!

Again, thank you so much for your help. Really appreciate it :)

[JackLaVaporiera]

No problem. Glad that you solved again.

[jay1992]

I've got a similar problem: Tomb Raider was working fine for the whole of last week, but now it starts crashing after a few minutes. Here's the error I got.

Faulting application name: TombRaider.exe, version: 1.1.748.0, time stamp: 0x519379a7
Faulting module name: TombRaider.exe, version: 1.1.748.0, time stamp: 0x519379a7
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x001baa4c
Faulting process id: 0x11f8
Faulting application start time: 0x01ce855b07f535a8
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\TombRaider\TombRaider.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\TombRaider TombRaider.exe
Report Id: b03cc6a0-f14e-11e2-8ca0-002713ddf83f

[JackLaVaporiera]

Check the game cache through Steam, make up your mind to what could have changed onto your machine in the meanwhile, if the game cache is ok it must be something onto your rig that's no more the same...

[Liker]

Very Happy For You

[jay1992]

Ok, how do I check my cache, and what should I be looking for?

[JackLaVaporiera]

Originally posted by jackmorgan09:

Ok, how do I check my cache, and what should I be looking for?

Actually is Steam that checks it for you, only ask it in game properties->local files->check game cache....and by your side try to remember if you've changed/installed/unistalled/messed up something since the last time it was running correctly...

[jay1992]

Seems to be working now, but thanks anyway