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Tomb Raider: Legend
README file 13/03/2006 Version 1.0


Part 1: Things You Should Know

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


1.1 DirectX

This game is optimised for Microsoft's DirectX 9.0c. In order for you to play the game, you must have DirectX 9.0ccompliant drivers for your video card and sound card. Please note that although DirectX 9.0c is installed with the game, your video and sound card drivers will not be upgraded to DirectX 9.0c drivers.

You will need to obtain the latest DirectX 9.0c drivers from your card manufacturer or PC supplier. These drivers cannot be supplied by Eidos.


1.2 Memory and Performance

While the game willrun fine in 256 Mb of RAM, your playing experience will be smoother if you have at least 512 Mb.

Regardless of how much memory you have, you can maximize your available memory and increase the overall performance of the game engine by doing the following:

q Closing any open windows
q Shutting down all other programs, including menu-bar programs like ICQ
q Defragmenting your hard driveEidos recommends that you have no other programs running at all while playing Tomb Raider: Legend. Other programs, including virus checkers, system utilities and screen savers can cause system degradation when playing games software and may conflict with the game for system resources, potentially resulting in instability and crashes.


1.3 Known Issues

q Ensure you are running latestdrivers from nVidia and ATI.

Crystal Dynamics, Nixxes Software and Eidos Interactive are committed to providing customer support for our games on a continuing basis. In that spirit, there may be a patch for Tomb Raider: Legend forthcoming; visit the Eidos website for more information.

http://www.eidos.com/
http://www.tombraider.com



q Reverb option

Some motherboard based sound-cards(e.g. SoundMAX) may cause the option ‘Reverb’ (within audio settings) not to work.
This is due to the current driver not supporting this mode, although a future revision of the driver may address this issue.
To download drivers, you need to contact your computer manufacturer (or motherboard manufacturer if your computer custom built).



Part 2: Technical Issues


2.1 Installation & Set-upSystem Requirements

The minimum system requirements are as follows:

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Microsoft Windows 2000, XP
CPU:
Pentium 3 1.0Ghz or Athlon XP Equivalent
RAM:
256MB
GRAPHICS:
100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64 MB 3D Accelerated Card with TnL (GeForce 3Ti / Radeon 9 series)
SOUND:
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP compatible sound card (100% DirectX 9.0c -compatible)
DVD-ROM:Quad-speed (4x) DVD-ROM drive
HARD DRIVE:
9.9GB free disk space
INPUT DEVICES:
100% Windows 2000/XP compatible mouse and keyboard


The recommended system requirements are as follows:

CPU:
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz or Athlon XP Equivalent
RAM:
1GB
GRAPHICS:
100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 512 MB 3D Accelerated Card (Nvidia GeForce 7800 / Ati X-1800)
SOUND:
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP compatible soundcard (100% DirectX 9.0c compatible)
DVD-ROM:
Eight-speed (8x) DVD-ROM drive or faster
HARD DRIVE:
9.9GB free disk space


Preparing Your Hard Drive

To ensure that your installation is trouble free, you should check to see that your hard drive and file system are both tuned for optimum performance. Windows comes with two utility programs that find and fix any errors and optimise yourhard drive performance. The first of these programs is called scandisk. Scandisk will check your hard drive for problems and can fix any that it finds. You can run scandisk by clicking on the Start button from the Windows Taskbar, followed by Programs, then Accessories, then System Tools, and finally scandisk.

Once scandisk has finished running, you should next optimise your hard drive's...