Tomb Raider 2013 $9

[booman]

Amazon is having a special for Tomb Raider 2013
I've read on Wine and PlayOnLinux that it can run but can also have issues.
So no promises here, but if I can get it running, I can do a guide for it.

 

[allenskd]

If anyone's wondering, it runs

I don't know if it's permitted, however, I still must mention that due to Steam breaking in previous WINE versions (only works in 1.7.8+ as far as I know) you might have to crack your Tomb Raider installation. Thus, not having the opportunity to build up your achievements, etc. So to install Tomb Raider, download Steam using WINE 1.7.8+ then switch to 1.5.19.

I've seen people running it with WINE 1.7.7... sadly, only 1.5.19 has been the lucky version for me (with some minor artifacts appearances)

 

[booman]

Awesome, thanks for posting. I will definitely be posting a guide if I can get Tomb Raider to run.
I've had a lot of the same problems with Steam as well.
Do you have the overlay problems too?

 

[allenskd]

Awesome, thanks for posting. I will definitely be posting a guide if I can get Tomb Raider to run.
I've had a lot of the same problems with Steam as well.
Do you have the overlay problems too?

I can't run Steam with 1.5.19... I had to crack the game (I, of course own it legally) so it ran =/ didn't like it but I couldn't see any other way, unless it started working with 1.7.11. So no overlay =/

 

[booman]

As long as Tomb Raider works in 1.7.8 or newer, then thats good with me.
Was there a specific reason for using 1.5.19?

What libraries did it require?
d3dx9
d3dx10
d3dx11
dotnet
vcrun
etc...

 

[allenskd]

I tried to compile WINE 1.7.7 for TR alone, but compiling 32bits in a 64 system is troublesome. The reason that I was forced to use 1.5.19 is because it was the only version that worked. I've seen people use other newer versions of WINE, I'm quite jealous since I had to do a dirty workaround.

So, what happened if I used 1.7.8+?

The game will work, it will launch. You can configure the settings and all, but when it came to PLAYING the game it would freeze in the menu section, so it never loaded.

As for the libraries, don't sweat it Just use PoL official script to install the game, then swiftly change to the WINE version you want, that's what I did.

To those who don't use PoL (?)

Enable StrictDrawOrdering in the registry
Disable GLSL

Install dxfullsetup (it should come with xinput.dll)
else install xinput if it didn't.

 

[booman]

ok, that kinda makes sense. I will keep 1.5.19 in mind when I start testing.
I'm sure you have noticed that all of our guides are manual installations.
I have noticed that the most of the PlayOnLinux scripts are not updated and don't work. If there are any changes to the game or DRM client, the script breaks.
So I found that doing a manual installation is more flexible and helps "red flag" if something isn't going to work.
Not to mention teaches our readers how PlayOnlinux works.

Thanks for the list of libraries, I'll make sure to install dxfullsetup and xinput if I have any problems.
Now to downloading the 17 Gigabyte game.