                               TOMB RAIDER: THE LOST ARTIFACT
                                      Readme File v1.0
                                           2/9/00



Contents
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DirectX 6
Prepare Your Hard Drive
Installation
Setup
Hardware Requirements
Final Controls
Exit the Game
Screen Grabber
Uninstall Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact
Technical Help
DirectX Installation
3D Graphic Cards
Audio Issues
Driver Information
Technical Support
Eidos Hint Line
Eidos Interactive Company Store
Eidos/Core Design Web Links

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Please read through the DirectX 6 section of this document. This section
has information that is vital to successfully running Tomb Raider: The Lost
Artifact on your system.

DirectX 6

Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact uses Microsoft's DirectX 6 (or later). In
order for you to play the game, you may need DX6-compliant drivers for your
video card and sound card. Your video and sound card must be 100%
compatible with DirectX. Please note that although DirectX 6.0 is installed
with the game, your video and sound card drivers will not be upgraded to
DirectX 6 drivers. You may need to obtain the latest DX6 drivers from your
card manufacturer. If Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact does not run properly on your video
card, and there are no DX6 drivers available for your video card, you will
have to run the game in software mode. Keep checking your manufacturer's
web site for new drivers, they may correct problems you are experiencing,
and may even help the game run faster on your system. There are various web
sites listed in the Driver Information section of this document.

Signs indicating that you may need an updated driver:
DirectDraw errors being displayed.
Game crashes or hangs.
Graphic glitches and other graphical problems appear during the game.
Sound squeaking or crackling in game.
Windows desktop is distorted or corrupted when exiting the game.

Please refer to the Technical Help section for more information.

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Prepare Your Hard Drive

To best prepare your system to run the game, please follow this procedure:
1. Run ScanDisk on your hard drive. This program is found on your Windows
Start Menu, in Programs/Accessories/System Tools.
2. Run Disk Defragmenter on your hard drive. This program is also found on
your Windows Start Menu, in Programs/Accessories/System Tools.
3. Run a quality virus scanner on your hard drive.

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Installation

To install Tomb Raider: The Lost ARtifact to your hard drive:

1. Place the CD in your CD-ROM drive.

2. After a few seconds, the Autorun Menu will come on screen. Select the
Install option. If this menu does not appear, click the Start button,
select Run and type D:\autorun (where D is the letter of your CD-ROM
drive), then click OK.

3. During the installation, the program will detect whether you have
certified DirectX 6 drivers which allow Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact to run properly
under all configurations. Your current drivers may be updated as necessary.

4. The Tomb Raider installation routine will then install the game files
to your hard drive. At the end of the installation, you may be prompted to
Restart your computer.

5. Upon completion of installation, run Setup to make sure your graphics
card is configured properly.

6. Click the Play button on the Autorun Menu or select Tomb Raider: The Lost
Artifact in the Core Design folder on the Start Menu to begin the game.

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Setup

There are a large number of options available in the Setup window, which
allow you to configure the graphics, sound and controls within the game.
You may need to change some of the graphics settings to achieve the best
possible performance (frame rate and detail level) on your particular
graphics card. Please refer to the Technical Help section for more details
on graphics configuration.

The Setup window is accessed by clicking the Setup button on the Autorun
Menu, or by selecting Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact - Setup from the Start menu.

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Hardware Requirements

MINIMUM SPECIFICATIONS:
Without hardware acceleration: Pentium Class 166MMX MHz or 100%
compatible processor
With hardware acceleration: Pentium Class 133MHz or 100% compatible
processor.
Windows® 95 or Windows® 98
16 MB RAM
4MB SVGA card 100% Windows® 95 or Windows® 98 compatible sound and video
card
4X CD ROM DRIVE
DirectX 6.0 or higher (included)
Keyboard

RECOMMENDED
Pentium Class 200MHz (or greater) or 100% compatible processor
32 MB RAM
3D acceleration recommended (100% Direct3D compliant accelerator cards
supported)

NOTE: It may be necessary for you to update your hardware drivers to run
this game.

Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact will not run on Windows NT 4.0, and was not designed to run
on Laptops.

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In-Game Controls (DEFAULTS)

Lara

 Cursor Keys          Use the Cursor Keys to move Lara around the playing
                      area
 Ctrl                 Action
 Space Bar            Draw/Holster Weapons
 Alt                  Jump
 End                  Roll
 <                    Draw Flare
 Shift(w/Cursor Keys) Walk/Side-step

 ?                    Sprint when moving forward (ALT will make Lara dive
                      and roll forward)
 Ins (Keypad 0)       Look
 >                    Duck
 > (w/Cursor Keys)    Crawl

 ESC                  Pauses and displays Menu Rings

Hot Keys

 1 - 8              Directly select available weapons
 9                  Use large Medi-pack
 0                  Use small Medi-pack
 F5                 Shortcut to Save Game Passport page
 F6                 Shortcut to Load Game Passport page
 - (Keypad)         Shrink game window (in-game only)
 + (Keypad)         Increase game window (in-game only)

Vehicles

During her travels, Lara will come across a Quad Bike...Here's how it's controlled:

Quad Bike

 Left/Right Keys       Turn Left & Right
 Ctrl                  Accelerate
 Alt                   Reverse
 ?                     Hand Brake
 End + Left or Right   Dismount

Note: Holding the Handbrake, pressing the Accelerator several times, then
releasing the Handbrake will provide Turbo-Boost. You’ll need this turbo
boost to make certain jumps!


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Joysticks & Gamepads

Tomb Raider supports a wide variety of Windows 95 compatible game
controllers. However, there are no default settings for the joystick
buttons, so you will need to assign the various controls to the joystick
buttons yourself.

At the Main Title screen, highlight Controls (cursor keys icon) and press
the Enter key. The Default Keys should now appear on screen. Press the
right cursor key to bring up the User Keys screen. It is here that you will
be able to assign the joystick buttons. Highlight the particular control
you want to assign by using the cursor keys. Press the Enter key to select
that control, and then press the joystick button you wish to use. The text
will flash on and off if you have assigned two controls to the same button.
Once you have assigned controls for all of the joystick buttons, press the
ESC key to exit the Controls screen.

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Exit the Game

There is no hot key to exit during gameplay. To exit the game, you can press
ALT-F4, or do the following:
Press the ESC key, press down arrow, press the Enter key on the Passport
(Game) icon, press right arrow twice (Exit to Title) and press the Enter
key. Once you are at the Main Title Screen, Press Enter on the Passport
(Game) icon and right arrow twice (Exit Game) and press the Enter key.

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Screen Grabber

Tomb Raider has a built in screen grabber for your viewing pleasure.
Hitting the " key during gameplay will snap a screenshot called
TOMB0000.TGA and place it on your hard drive in the C:\Program Files\Core
Design\Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact (or wherever you installed the game). The files will
be numbered incremently as you snap them. Please do not try and map this
key to one of Lara's in-game controls.

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Uninstall Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact

In the unlikely event that you actually want to uninstall the game, there
are 2 easy ways to do so:
1) Go to the Start Menu, Core Design/Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact folder, and select
Uninstall Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact.
2) Insert the CD, and then click on the Uninstall button on the Autorun
menu.

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Technical Help

There are many 3D accelerator cards available on the market, and they all
will perform differently under the same conditions, depending on the
chipset, amount of video memory, and drivers installed. The key to getting
the best performance out of your graphics card is to set the card to a
higher resolution, while maintaining a good frame rate with no texture
loss. Many accelerator cards will run the game very efficiently at
640x480, 16-bit color.

If you notice texture drop out or texture corruption - white blank spots or
bad textures on menu text, objects, terrain and characters including Lara,
you will need to lower the graphics resolution. The card has run out of
texture memory. You will need to lower the graphics resolution to a setting
where the texture corruption disappears. The graphics resolution can be
changed in the setup window, and can also be changed in-game by selecting
the Sunglasses Icon. Turning off Z-Buffering may help to fix this problem
as well. If the results are unsatisfactory, you can run the game in
software mode by running Setup, and selecting Software Mode.

If you are experiencing very low frame rates, you may want to lower the
screen resolution. You can also reduce the screen size, which will leave a
border around the viewable area. The "-" key on the keypad will reduce the
screen size (while in-game), and the "+" key on the keypad will increase
the screen size (while in-game). Reducing the resolution and screen size
will help the game run faster.

When using the Sunglasses Icon in-game to increase the resolution, you will
have to be a little careful. Some of the graphic options such as
Z-Buffering can be supported at lower resolutions, but may not be supported
at higher resolutions. If you increase the resolution in-game to a
resolution which does not support the currently selected graphics options,
the game may crash your system. For example, the 3Dfx Voodoo1 cards will
not run the game with Z-Buffering on in 800x600 mode. If you have
Z-Buffering on, and increase the resolution in-game to 800x600 the game
will crash. If you wish to run the game in 800x600 mode on a 3Dfx Voodoo1
card, make sure Z-Buffer is turned off.

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DirectX Installation
If there are any problems installing DirectX 6 when the game is installed,
DirectX can be installed directly from the CD. To install DirectX 6, go to
the "DirectX" directory on the game CD, and run the "dxsetup.exe" program.

Sometimes DirectX will replace your audio or video drivers with drivers
that do not work with your hardware. If you suspect DirectX has messed up
your system, you should be able to restore the original drivers by going to
the ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS section in the Windows 95 CONTROL PANEL. This can
be found on the Windows Start Menu, under Settings.

When you double click on the ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS icon, you should see a
list of all of the programs that are registered with Windows 95 in the
Add/Remove Programs Properties panel. If you see a listing for "DirectX
Drivers", double-click it to open the DirectX Setup window. At the bottom
of this window, there should be a button labeled Restore Display Drivers.
Clicking on this button should restore the original video drivers. Click on
the Restore Audio Drivers button to restore the original audio drivers.
Though DirectX will remain on your system, the restoration of the older
drivers may then allow you to run the program. If not, you should probably
contact your system vendor for 100% DirectX 6 compatible drivers for your
video and/or sound cards OR visit the web site of your hardware
manufacturer and download the latest drivers. There are various web sites
listed in the Driver Information section of this document.

Additional help with DirectX may be found on the Microsoft DirectX web
site:
www.microsoft.com/directx/

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3D Graphic Cards

Tomb Raider requires that you have at LEAST 4 Mb of VRAM on your 3D card.
We do not support any 2 Mb cards.

3Dfx cards
If you have a video card that uses the 3Dfx Voodoo1 or Voodoo2 chipset, and
you are using older DX5 drivers, you may experience problems such as
graphic glitches. Please visit your card manufacturer's web site to check
if there are new DX6 drivers available for your card. Just in case your
card manufacturer has not released DX6 drivers yet, we have provided 3Dfx
reference drivers for Voodoo1 and Voodoo2 cards on the CD, in the Support
directory.

To install them, double-click on the executable file and follow the
instructions. Please note that installing these reference drivers will
deactivate any manufacturer-specific applets or control panels provided
with your card. You will therefore want to visit your card manufacturer's
web site to see if they have DX6-compliant drivers available, before
installing the reference drivers we have provided on the CD.

S3 Virge VX/GX/DX & GX2
You may be able to play the game on S3 Virge based cards in hardware,
but Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact is not supported on these cards. If you experience any
problems running the game or viewing the FMV's on an S3 Virge card, we
recommend you play in Software Mode.

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Audio Issues

If you find you are not hearing any sound within the game one of the
reasons might be that when Windows 95 or Windows 98 was installed on your
PC the ability to play the Microsoft Audio Compression files was not
selected.

To check to see if this is the problem, please follow the following steps:
[You will need your Windows 95/98 CD]

1. Go into Control Panel and open the Add/Remove Programs applet.
2. Click on the Windows Setup tab.
3. You should see a selection item called Multimedia which will have one
of the following 3 next to it:
- A check in a white box
- A check in a gray box
- No check in the box

If you have the first of these, then this technique is not the solution to
the problem. Please refer to other areas of the document or our on-line
support.

If you have a check in a gray box, then please click on the Details button
and place a check in the box next to the "Audio Compression" entry.

If there is no check in the box, then simply click in the box to check it.

Press OK to all the dialog boxes and Windows Setup will copy the necessary
files to their hard drive.

There is also a driver issue with some sound cards and Microsoft's
Compressed Audio Format. If you experience any 'skipping or stuttering
audio' please try the following to clear up the problem:

1. Exit out of the game and run the TOMB3 Setup Option from the Start Bar.
2. Look at the Sound Adapter Check Box.
3. Switch from Primary Sound Driver to the other available device (most
likely Yamaha).
4. Click OK

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Driver Information:

EIDOS Interactive maintains a web page with links to all major video and
audio card manufacturers, which is a good first stop if you're looking to
upgrade your drivers. You can reach this page at:
http://www.eidosinteractive.com/techsupp/

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