Tomb Raider III (4 + 5) stopped working

[Drayuu]

I have been playing this game for a while now, I have 200+ hours of gameplay. It was working fine on my desktop, Windows 10. Suddenly one day, the game stopped working. I get the classic Windows crash window. Same for Tomb Raider IV and Tomb Raider V.
I have tried a million things to fix it, and in the end, I reinstalled Windows 10 freshly, after reformating. The game still doesn't work and crash.
It works fine on my laptop which has Windows 10 as well.
Tomb Raider III is by far my favourite and I was supposed to play it for a caritative event. I would like to solve the issue of why it's not working.
I tried:
- Updating drivers (graphic card, motherboard, sound, etc)
- Start as administrator (game + steam)
- Start in safe mode and try the game
- Play with resolutions

The game always crashes for some reason. On start up. It means something somewhere is common to the three game and make them crash.

I'm seeking for help here...please!
Thank you

[Calmly Frenetic]

A similar thing happened about 7 months ago, possibly due to a Steam or Windows update.
Some other things to try:

- Run the game's .exe file instead of pressing play in Steam.
- Run the game in "compatibility" mode for a previous version of Windows.
- Run "setup" using the the launch option: -setup
- For TR-II, III, IV, & V there is a DirectX "wrapper" called dgVoodoo2 that fixes issues with the overlay, window borders, and various crashes:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/225300/discussions/0/405692758708180266/
You just need to put the two .dll files (d3dimm & ddraw) in the game folder, plus the dgvoodoosetup.exe file somewhere else. Running the setup allows you to hide the "dgVoodoo Watermark" and adjust some display options.

[Drayuu]

Thank you for your reply,
I have downloaded dgVoodoo 2.53. I have pasted the 3dll in the game folder and run the setup. The game actually runs now! BUT it looks terrible. Everything is blurry and white. The whole game is white (Lara, the floor the walls) and it's still unplayable.
I couldn't remove dgVoodoo logo either.
Any help on how to make the game look "normal"?
Thanks!

[Drayuu]

I love you man, I'd kiss you right now.
I fooled around with the settings and found what I needed. Just note that the game crash when going into the option (glasses) in the game and load.
Just avoid that and it's fine.
You saved my event and my favourite game and it works better than before, textures are better.
SO
THANK YOU! ♥

[Calmly Frenetic]

The adventures continue... ♥

[IvanTeeHeee]

beacause classic tomb raider game isnt compatible of win10

[Drayuu]

Yes it is compatible. It works fine.

[Ickie (>N<)]

Originally posted by Calmly Frenetic:

A similar thing happened about 7 months ago, possibly due to a Steam or Windows update.
Some other things to try:

- Run the game's .exe file instead of pressing play in Steam.
- Run the game in "compatibility" mode for a previous version of Windows.
- Run "setup" using the the launch option: -setup
- For TR-II, III, IV, & V there is a DirectX "wrapper" called dgVoodoo2 that fixes issues with the overlay, window borders, and various crashes:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/225300/discussions/0/405692758708180266/
You just need to put the two .dll files (d3dimm & ddraw) in the game folder, plus the dgvoodoosetup.exe file somewhere else. Running the setup allows you to hide the "dgVoodoo Watermark" and adjust some display options.

Its always the damn steam updates,over the years these horrible things they sometimes dont test properly for whatever reason has broken a few of my titles in the past!All that nonsense about updates dont wreck a PC is rubbish,they DO!

[Ickie (>N<)]

Originally posted by Ivanteeheee!:

beacause classic tomb raider game isnt compatible of win10

Are you blind as well as dumb?she already said she had put in 200+hours!...sigh todays YOOF!

[Ickie (>N<)]

Originally posted by Calmly Frenetic:

The adventures continue... ♥

any idea how ic an get laras hair back to normal,the nvidia lady couldnt in an hour earlier!:) basically when i goto run her ponytail sticks out like a pointer dogs tail and then it will stretch,all this after i copied some guys guide on community for TR3 TR3 on Modern PC's,i copied his settings but it has ruined mine,ive not even tried the others properly,i dont want to find any more bad news lol...i justw ant to correct it,everything else seems fine just her hair so it must be one setting somewhere?what would you think caused this?thanks in advance

[Drayuu]

I can only suggest to update and check video drivers because I've never seen this problem before.
You should also end sentences because that was very hard to read!

[Larafan2009]

I clicked on the link and it leads me to another steam discussion. There is a link there, but when I clicked it I was told the page doesn't exist. I'd like to try this solution to see if it works for me. Could you please repost the links? Thank You.

[Grimlord]

Originally posted by Drayuu:

Thank you for your reply,
I have downloaded dgVoodoo 2.53. I have pasted the 3dll in the game folder and run the setup. The game actually runs now! BUT it looks terrible. Everything is blurry and white. The whole game is white (Lara, the floor the walls) and it's still unplayable.
I couldn't remove dgVoodoo logo either.
Any help on how to make the game look "normal"?
Thanks!

same problem here, dgVoodo + Tomb Raider 3 makes every 3d-model white, totally messed up, any solution to this??

[Frank]

To anybody that is having trouble running TR3 with dgvoodoo2 like I was where everything looked white/without texture:

1. In tomb raider's setup, make sure 8 bit textures is disabled.
2. Now, look into tomb raider's folder for a file named "config.txt".
3. Open it and edit the line where it says "D3DTF 1" to another number than whats currently set there.

I tried D3DTF 0, D3DTF 1, D3DTF 2, D3DTF 3... because I noticed everytime I changed, it gave different graphic glitches.

When I got to D3DTF 6 it worked. I don't know why this field matters and I am too tired to research after trying to solve this for 2 hours ¬¬, so at this point I'll just take the win and run.

PS. I also forced the resolution to 1080p on dgvoodoo to prevent it from changing when the game needs to play the FMVs and set Scalling Mode do Centered to prevent the distortion caused by the 1080p res.

[Baby Alexy Backup]

Originally posted by Frank:

To anybody that is having trouble running TR3 with dgvoodoo2 like I was where everything looked white/without texture:

1. In tomb raider's setup, make sure 8 bit textures is disabled.
2. Now, look into tomb raider's folder for a file named "config.txt".
3. Open it and edit the line where it says "D3DTF 1" to another number than whats currently set there.

I tried D3DTF 0, D3DTF 1, D3DTF 2, D3DTF 3... because I noticed everytime I changed, it gave different graphic glitches.

When I got to D3DTF 6 it worked. I don't know why this field matters and I am too tired to research after trying to solve this for 2 hours ¬¬, so at this point I'll just take the win and run.

PS. I also forced the resolution to 1080p on dgvoodoo to prevent it from changing when the game needs to play the FMVs and set Scalling Mode do Centered to prevent the distortion caused by the 1080p res.

How to do it with TR2 theres no config file?

[Dgo]

Originally posted by Calmly Frenetic:

A similar thing happened about 7 months ago, possibly due to a Steam or Windows update.
Some other things to try:

- Run the game's .exe file instead of pressing play in Steam.
- Run the game in "compatibility" mode for a previous version of Windows.
- Run "setup" using the the launch option: -setup
- For TR-II, III, IV, & V there is a DirectX "wrapper" called dgVoodoo2 that fixes issues with the overlay, window borders, and various crashes:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/225300/discussions/0/405692758708180266/
You just need to put the two .dll files (d3dimm & ddraw) in the game folder, plus the dgvoodoosetup.exe file somewhere else. Running the setup allows you to hide the "dgVoodoo Watermark" and adjust some display options.

Please help. My game was working fine till I installed this dgvoodoo thing and can't get rid of the watermark. I tried disabling it, reinstalling, verifying files, nothings works. Please any tips?