Tomb Raider (VI): The Angel of Darkness Fixed Guide

Guide for fix bugs, texture, controls and more for TR6 made possible by Moders: Sasho648, SLAYER, Nakamichi680, LateRaider, rewak & LoreTheGamer, TRJTA, Samz and many others.

Warning

Warning: this guide was made by me in order to help other gamers. I am not the owner of any copyrights and all the patches that I’m going to use should be used under YOUR OWN RISK in other words I am not responsible of any software or hardware damage.

TR6 History

Back in 2003 Eidos Interactive rushed the release of this game, what they wanted? Use the release of the movie Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life. This almost provoked the end of the franchise and in sarcastic moved Eidos gave the productions rights of TR to Crystal Dinamics, this finally killed Core Design and its sale to Rebellion.

This game was planned in the way it has 4 main chapters and a kind of RPG system, that´s the reason you can buy or sell things, speak with people in some places and even increase your speed or strength.

The thing is what you see now it is the release of an incomplete game, in my opinion a “BETA” accepted as a game because of people who wanted profits at all cost.

In the last decades a group of modders have created a series of patches that can be used for recovery, enhance and update the game. Moder sasho648 created a patch that actually works for recovering of parts of the game like small parts of maps and enemies.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-10-12-the-fans-who-would-fix-tomb-raiders-most-broken-adventure

What it is on this guide?

With this guide you will be able to do the following:

Recovery small parts of maps
Recovery some enemies
Recovery Lara´s sunglasses
Native Control Compatibility (Note for direct imput controllers)
HD Videos
Final Credits
Visual enhanced of some sceneries
HD textures

Tools and patches

In this website http://www.core-design.com/community_modding_tr6.html download the mods and patches listed below (read the instruction given between "()") and finally from this other one http://www.tombraiderforums.com/showthread.php?t=204089 download his patch. I uploaded a copy of the patches and files that I use in the guide in a shared drive https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1R2ZXxc26J0PvGz2HAgqVcOLQwAr2Qxy4?usp=sharing

1. Tomb Raider - The Angel of Darkness EXE Multi-Patcher by Nakamichi680 (all the content in the section)
2. Tomb Raider AOD Flipped Polygons Fixes by Nakamichi680 (all the content in the section)
3. AOD Recovery Patch (+ Sunglasses by laracroft1997) by Sasho648 (The single recovery patch)
4. Tomb Raider AOD Ending Credits Fix by Nakamichi680 (all the content in the section)
5. Tomb Raider AOD Willowtree Herbalist Fix by Nakamichi680 (all the content in the section)
6. Tomb Raider The Angel of Darkness Text Cleanup by LateRaider (all the content in the section)
7. AOD Improved FMVs by rewak (The modified rewak's FMVs by LoreTheGamer)
8. AOD HD Graphics Patch by TRJTA (all the content in the section) while TRJTA has updated his/hers files I uploaded a copy to my shared drive.
9. Slayer´s Ultimate Patch

Before starting

Before you start: copy the folder Steam\steamapps\common\Tomb Raider (VI) The Angel of Darkness for back-up reasons (if something goes wrong you have a back-up of the game)

1st step Sasho648 Recovery Patch

In the directory “Steam\steamapps\common\Tomb Raider (VI) The Angel of Darkness\bin” or the one you decided to install the game copy and paste Sasho´s TRAOD_P4.exe (I checked the webpage and I found Sasho published a new version of this file, but I am using the old one here) overwrite the original content.

Now before continuing with the rest of the modes apply the following setting with the game configuration tool. Note: in Windows 10 the Compressed DXT5 doesn´t work use instead of Compressed DXT3



I issued a new guide only for the configuration if you want to see the diffences made with it.

2nd step SLAYER's Ultimate Patch

Download SLAYER's Ultimate Patch and unzipped, the name of the folder you have now is “data” copy and paste in the game´s main directory and overwrite the original content with slayer´s patch.

3rd step AOD Flipped Polygons Fixes and AOD Willowtree Herbalist Fix by Nakamichi680

Unzipped all the downloaded files in a single folder, copy them in the following order

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tomb Raider (VI) The Angel of Darkness\data\char
GUARDB.CHR
AQUATIC.CHR

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tomb Raider (VI) The Angel of Darkness\data\Maps\CutScene
cs_2_51a.gmx.clz
CS_6_2.GMX.CLZ
CS_6_16.GMX.CLZ
CS_6_21B.GMX.CLZ

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tomb Raider (VI) The Angel of Darkness\data\Maps
PARIS1.GMX.CLZ
PARIS1A.GMX.CLZ
PARIS1B.GMX.CLZ
PARIS1C.GMX.CLZ
PARIS2_1.GMX.CLZ
PARIS2_2.GMX.CLZ
PARIS2_3.GMX.CLZ
PARIS2B.GMX.CLZ
PARIS2F.GMX.CLZ
PARIS2G.GMX.CLZ
PARIS4A.GMX.CLZ
PARIS5_1.GMX.CLZ
PARIS5_4.GMX.CLZ
PARIS5_5.GMX.CLZ
PRAGUE1.GMX.CLZ
PRAGUE2.GMX.CLZ
PRAGUE3A.GMX.CLZ
PRAGUE4.GMX.CLZ
PRAGUE4A.GMX.CLZ
PRAGUE5.GMX.CLZ
PRAGUE6A.GMX.CLZ
paris2d.gmx.clz

4th step AOD Improved FMVs by rewak (English version of the game)

Rewak improved the original videos from the PS2 and LoreTheGamer updated them. You just need to unzip the videos and copy and paste them in “Steam\steamapps\common\Tomb Raider (VI) The Angel of Darkness\data\FMV” overwrite the original content. Use the one from LoreTheGamer they worked well this time.

5th step Tomb Raider AOD Ending Credits Fix by Nakamichi680 (english version of the game)

Unzip the content and copy, paste and overwrite Rewak´s END.mpg both are hd videos so don´t you worry. It seems this video has problems with some codecs. Maybe it will fail.

6th step The Angel of Darkness Text Cleanup by LateRaider (Original UK English language)

This game was made in England and the English version of the game is actually UK for other language you have to navigate in your language TR forums and get the correct files no matter if they are FMV or the following text patch (I am a Spanish speaker, but I am a purist so I like to play the game in the language they were created or in the one they got an award or more) unzip the file copy, paste and overwrite the original file in “Steam\steamapps\common\Tomb Raider (VI) The Angel of Darkness\data\locale”

7th step (Advance Modding Skills) AOD HD Graphics Patch by TRJTA and Tomb Raider - The Angel of Darkness EXE Multi-Patcher by Na

At this point the game looks great and runs well, but the following patches increase the quality of the game and textures. These tools change the game completely, for example, they add snow in the game that was delete by Core in the final release of the game, but in the order that this happens you need to understand what a modding tool is and how they work.

Modders decrypt parts of the game and made them easy to re-build or configure. TRJTA used Texmod (a graphical interface tool) this will launch game in order to apply the HD Texture, so at this point the Steam or GOG layouts will no longer accessible. Nakamichi680 created a command line tool using the CMD.exe.

1 - AOD HD Graphics Patch by TRJTA

• Cut sasho´s TRAOD_P4.exe and paste it in the main directory
  
• Unzip TRJTA file (steam edition) and put the folder created in the main directory
  
• From the folder created cut and paste the hud.rar and Menus.rar into the data folder unzip the content here (don´t create folder each one, only unzip here) overwrite the content.
  
• Unzip the Interface & Items zip in the folder created before and cut the folders frontend and effects and paste them in the data folder. Cut the Interface & Items tpf file and paste it alongside the others where textmod was unzipped.
  
• Unzip the texmod zip in the folder created before (turn off your antivirus)
  
• open texmod click on the big yellow folder and upload the Sasho´s executable and the click on the small folder and upload the textures.
  
• Do this everytime you open the game or everytime you want to use the HD Textures.

This tool takes some time while is loading the textures

2 - Tomb Raider - The Angel of Darkness EXE Multi-Patcher by Nakamichi680

• Unzip Nakamichi680´s file,
  
• copy and paste TRAODMP.exe to the main directory.
  
• Copy and paste the TP_ROLL.mpg file into the FMV folder the one listed before (If you want to use this one, but remenber it has issues in some computers).
  
• Drag & Drop TRAOD_P4.exe over TRAODMP.exe, the executable will ask you administrative privilege´s

Don´t use advanced mod if you don´t have a powerful computer or if you don´t understand what is going to change.
The tool has 3 pages so please use N to navigate
You can selet the setting with a number, the numbers are listed in a column on the left side.

For example, Lara sunglasses disable if you want enable it write 1 in command line and enter and it changes the status automatically if you don´t want this, in order to disable just put 1 and enter again, Some settings has more than two options in that case write number 2 and a new menu will appear choose in the left column the setting number and this enable the mod and send you back to the main menu.

My advices enable lara´s sunglasses they look cool, enable FUR (for good cpu), MAIN MENU DEMO VIDEO is cool and finally ASPECT RATIO FIX enable (cool with the HD texture) leave the rest as it comes and write s and exit the tool.

Settings

Notes:

In Windows 10 the Compressed DXT5 doesn´t work use instead of Compressed DXT3. When everything is done, try to apply the setting I showed you in the 1st step.

For this error message:

"Build Sep 17 2003 15:53:15
The Following Error has occured
Generic Game Error
ASSERTION: 'SUCCEEDED(hr)' at C:\projects\tomb raider\Game\shell\system\PC\sys_d3d_vmr9.cpp(1569)"

This is a problem with the configuration tool and it could be related to the Nvidia shaders or the Compressed DXT. Since this configuration tool manages the relation between the game and the pc in general you have to play with it since there will be different configurations for your pc. In the default box there are 5 presets and a test button try first with these presets if one of them works it means your problem is the configuration.

If the configuration tool cannot be activated, temporary move the file TRAOD_P4.exe to the BIN folder and run the settings when done cut and paste the file again in the main directory



This screenshot is the game with the default settings



The following one has the settings without any patch installed



This one is the seetings with Sasho´s patch



This one is the game with all patches



And finally this one has the patches and the recommended the settings

Control Pad

Actually with patches the game recognize them, but the xbox controller and the DS4 are pretty digital and new controllers. Sasho created the patch like 5 years ago so it is hard make them fully work you could use DS4Windows, but it doesn´t work well. I am using an old fashion Huskee PCU-2901 and it works well.

This is the End!

You have a more stable and easy to play game. But think of this, the game in the way it was imagined was never published I think Sasho stopped to create patch because of this (my opinion).

The game is so nice a diammond, the problem it hasn´t been cut and the most probably thing will never. This game was the first part of a Trilogy, that we´ll be neve able to see.

Please let know your comments if you know better patches let know as well.

Thanks for reading this small intructions.

Guide on how to have duals without near-infinite ammo on PC for AOD.

Created by user Samz, this guide gives the oportunity to have the dual pistols through all your gameplay. He has been helping people with this guide and asked me to include the link here.

This is his profile in Steam
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198036081705

And this is his guide in the Tomb Raider Forum.
https://www.tombraiderforums.com/showpost.php?p=8050443

Thanks for your colaboration

[Keith Mongman]

i had zero idea this game nearly killed the franchise. i have really fond memories of playing this game on ps2 and never getting past the first level cos i was like 4

[Tecnocrat]

You really need to want to play TR6 and I've learned I don't really want it as hard as I thought. Good guide.

[Gunsaremagic]

https://www.tombraiderforums.com/showpost.php?p=8408403&postcount=1889 get the updated restoration project instead

[WitWolfy]

My game is so laggy with this crap not sure if its the DE demo or what but its horrible

[rjherreras]

You just need to download and paste the files in the folder listed above each list.

[Mr. Hamburgers]

i dont understand step 3...

[elisabethpizzati]

prière de contacter un spécialiste pour le laucher et micromania windows 10

[rjherreras]

it seems this happen regularly to some people. I found this solution here in steam

https://steamcommunity.com/app/225020/discussions/0/846942156103110119/

Let me know how it works because it never happened to me.

[anubis]

hi, my game at the point where lara throws herself down from the tubing the game crashes and it appears written
Builds Sep 17 2003 15:53:15

The Following Error has occurred

GAME_ERROR_STRUCTURED_EXCEPTION_HANDLE

TRAOD_P4.EXE caused a EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module TRAOD_P4.EXE at 0023:0048FBFB, mathTranslate()+59 byte(s), C:\projects\tomb raider\Game\SHELL\system\PC\maths_matrix.cpp, line 339

0023:0048FBFB TRAOD_P4.EXE, mathTranslate()+59 byte(s), C:\projects\tomb raider\Game\SHELL\system\PC\maths_matrix.cpp, line 339
0023:00512A6C TRAOD_P4.EXE, mapEmitterNodeUpdate()+68 byte(s), C:\projects\tomb raider\Game\shell\map\map_objmgr.c, line 1777+9 byte(s)
0023:00512D32 TRAOD_P4.EXE, mapEmitterMsgCallback()+234 byte(s), C:\projects\tomb raider\Game\shell\map\map_objmgr.c, line 1908+6 byte(s)
0023:00511F11 TRAOD_P4.EXE, mapSendNodeMsg()+45 byte(s), C:\projects\tomb raider\Game\shell\map\map_objmgr.c, line 937+23 byte(s)

What do I have to do to continue playing it?

[レイダー]

Thank you very much