Mike Hawthorne

Thanks I'll give it a try ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The link on the page doesn't point at the correct download anymore. Instead it opens a video for Rise of the Tomb Raider. Tried it twice. Mike

Hi I have the old Desktop Lara install files and I have had the program working in Windows 10. Now I am trying to reinstall it on the same computer and it keeps popping up a window that says a Internet Connection is required, I do of course have an internet connection but I can't get past that point. I believe that I had this same thing years ago, but don't remember how I got around it. I wondered if anyone else has an answer for this? I didn't use it all that much but I liked to turn it on once in a while when I had company who were interested in games. Mike Hawthorne... I played Tomb Raider since the first week of TR1, believe that I was the first person in the world to figure out the easy way across the burning pillars. I've played all the TR games up through TR4 without using any aid kits, and played TR1 all the way through without saving or restarting in any level. Posted on the original forum back in the 90s as Nohjekim.

Hi For me it's the PC just as I have every other Tomb Raider game ever! I can't wait, only 2 days to go, I have already ordered it on Steam, The Tomb Raider games are some of the best games to play in 3D Vision. Even the older games look great, but Tomb Raider 2013 was fantastic in stereo. All those big valleys and walks across logs etc. are really scary when you can see the depth falling away, and it's one of the few games that aren't harder to play in 3D, everything renders at the correct dept etc, so that targeting isn't a problem at all. I'm playing on a 27" 144 FPS monitor. Mike

Hi Thanks for the reply. I did finally find an old post someplace with this fix. It worked fine so i'm set to go again. Mike

Hi I haven't played Underworld for a long time, but I reinstalled it and I'm having a problem that I had before. The problem is that I don't remember how I fixed it and I can't seem to find the solution searching. I'm in the first part of the game in a room where you have to pick up stones and place them on areas in the floor to weigh it down. The trouble is that whenever I try and set the stones down they fly around the room and I can't get them to stay in the correct location. I remember having this issue in the past, and I thought it had something to do with video settings but I can't figure it out. Anyone know how to fix this? Mike

Hi Well, I'm at 99%, and I haven't found a grenade to get through the door and get the last relic. I still haven't found the 4th siren yet either, but that's the only two things in the game that I haven't found. I'll find the siren eventually but if I don't find a grenade then I'll never get to 100%. Mike

Hi Thanks I've been to both places but I'll give Shanty Town another shot, I still haven't found the last siren for the Silencer quest. Mike

Hi I've been through the game 3 times, and this time I swore that I was going to find everything. Well I'm almost there, 98%. But I need to get to the last Relic in the Research Base and I need a grenade to open the entrance to it's location. This has been going on for several days, I'v run around looking for the other stuff, and figuring that eventually I'll pick up a grenade someplace but it hasn't happened. Two days and I haven't gotten another grenade anyplace. I seem to find tons of everything else. Anyone have any idea how I can get one so that I can finish this? Mike

Hi I've been through the game 3 times, and this time I swore that I was going to find everything. Well I'm almost there, 98%. But I need to get to the last Relic in the Research Base and I need a grenade to open the entrance to it's location. This has been going on for several days, I'v run around looking for the other stuff, and figuring that eventually I'll pick up a grenade someplace but it hasn't happened. Two days and I haven't gotten another grenade anyplace. I seem to find tons of everything else. Anyone have any idea how I can get one so that I can finish this? Mike Sorry I think I placed this in the wrong forum.

Hi For me I just couldn't play it, the isometric controls just drove me so crazy I couldn't stick with it long enough to get the hang of it. I guess it will be the only Tomb Raider game that I don't finish. Mike

Hi Never mind, I figured it out. I'm running Windows 10 and it didn't load the correct drivers for my Microsoft Natural Keyboard. When I downloaded and installed the software for it, I was able to do it in just a few seconds. Mike

Hi I've played through Tomb Raider 2013 before. I decided to start over and I can't get through the first sequence. It took me about 10 minutes to get her to swing to the point that she set the hanging bag on fire, and after another 15 minutes I can't get her to swing far enough to set the robe on file and drop to the floor. She does respond the the keystrokes but it just seems like it isn't enough. Very frustrating. I'm using a mouse and keyboard. Same one I used to play through the game before. Anyone have any idea why she seems so laggy when trying to swing. I logged into an old save and things seemed normal. Mike

Hi Only a short rant, I just saw the news about the next Tomb Raider and I can't say how disappointed I am. I'm sure I'm not the first to post this but I didn't see anyone else's to add on to so here I am. I got the first Tomb Raider game the week it came out and have played every game since on the PC, multiple times. I just finished Tomb Raider 2013 for the second time. I was a regular on the original Tomb Raider forum for years under the handle "Nohjekim". And I still believe I was the first person to discover the easy way to get across the flaming pillars in TR1. I'm not going to buy a game box just to play the next game so this may be the end of the line for me. The logic of limiting the access to the game makes no sense other then the fact that they must have been payed an enormous amount of money to reduce their sales by huge numbers to promote a specific product. If I had a way to protest I'd do it but I don't buy anything from Microsoft but Windows so theirs not much I can do. I'm testing Windows 10 right now and Tomb Raider runs great on it in Stereo 3D, to bad I'll never see how the next one looks. I wouldn't have a problem with them getting a few months head start but to deny it to all the PC users who have been avid supporters for decades is just wrong. Mike

Hi everyone. Well the game got delayed on my order from Amazon, but I got it yesterday. I have it installed and have done a little of the opening level. I love it! It is just enough like the original to bring back memories, and just enough different to have a few surprises. I have gotten used to the controls now and find it easy to do, much more so then some of the old ones where the rope jumping could drive you crazy. I can tell already that I will want to play it again as soon as I finish. I didn't feel that way about the last 2. So far I haven't had to use any aid kits so I'll see if I can ad it to my list of TR games completed without using any aid kits. I'm going to take my time and look at everything; I don't want to rush through it the first time. Lara looks great! I am a designer and illustrator, so maybe this time I will try to design an outfit for her. Mike

Hi I was lamenting how Lara couldn't do her flips as she used to. Well I was wrong, at least partly. Lara can do the traditional flips in combat mode. That's the key, when out of combat mode she can not flip but once she is in combat mode hitting a direction key and the jump button does make her flip, just like in the trailer. I feel better now! Mike

Hi I was lamenting how Lara couldn't do her flips as she used to. Well I was wrong, at least partly. Lara can do the traditional flips in combat mode. That's the key, when out of combat mode she can not flip but once she is in combat mode hitting a direction key and the jump button does make her flip, just like in the trailer. I feel better now! Mike

Hi You mean that Lara can no longer flip to the side and fire her guns as she is depicted doing in the Anniversary trailer? They certainly show her doing that when fighting the raptors in the video. The one thing that is missing from both Legend and this demo is the feeling of being in control of the combat. I loved the way that you could really use your skill in the combat in the old games. In the original games it made a difference how you use reflexes and strategy in combat. If you were good at it you could take down the toughest bad guys with little of no damage. Combat in these new games just doesn’t have the same excitement, it’s almost like an afterthought, “Oh yeah we better have her shoot something”. Either you stand somewhere safe and shoot everything, or you run around in a circle and shoot every thing, but you don’t have the opportunity to have real input. And remember those great timed sequences such as the run through the ship in TR2 to turn off the burners. To do that kind of thing you had to have real control of Lara, the new games just don’t seem to have that. In fact it’s almost too easy, I guess they are looking for a larger audience but I miss the challenge of the old games. Now that I have gotten the hang of it I can blow through the demo in a couple of minutes, you don’t ever have to be accurate. I the bear cave you can jump in almost any direction and end up on the pole, and all you have to do to kill the raptors is stand on the rock right of the entrance to the area and shoot them. They can’t climb up on the one-foot tall rock to get at you. Mike

Hi I can't get Lara to do a flip; whenever I try she just turns and jumps in the direction of the control button that I push, even when I do them together. Can anyone tell me how you accomplish this? Mike

Hi I played through the demo several times, Missed the shotgun so I'll have to go back and do it again. I'm getting used to the controls, but I'd still rather have them like they were. You don't have to be accurate at all when jumping, so it's pretty easy, more so then the original, buy I don't have the feeling of being in control that I do when I play the old games. The combat is pretty easy in the demo, there is a safe place to stand for each combat situation, so you can play through it with no damage if you are careful. I killed all but one of the raptors and then ran around to see if I could find anything in the lost valley but most of it is blocked off. Well at least by the time the game comes I'll be used to the controls. I still can't figure out how to make Lara do a flip, either to the side or back. Mike

I'll look again I thought that I checked that and didn't see the option. So far I have found two of the Cogs, but I keep getting stuck in the room with the bear. I can’t figure out where to go once I get up on the platform with the two posts that you can climb, I can’t seem to get to the opening farther up by jumping from the pole and going the other way doesn’t seem to lead any place. I am getting used to the controls now and since everything is pretty automatic it’s not too hard. I remember the rope swinging in the old games and how crazy that used to drive me. Mike

Hi thanks for the info. I can keep from drowning now. Still haven't been able to save so if I get out of the game I have to start all over but I need the practice. I have the game preordered from Amazon. I have played all the Tomb Raider games, and I could pick up any of the old ones and the controls are almost automatic but I really don't remember how the controls in Legend worked. I recently started from scratch and played TR1, TR2, TR3, TR4 and TR5. I really wish they had left the controls the same and kept the mouse out of it, even though the other games that I play all use the mouse I liked the directness of the old controls. I'm pretty sure that I reconfigured the buttons in TR Legend when I played it to more closely resemble the original. I don't see those options in the Demo, but maybe they will be in the full game? Mike

Hi can some one lead me to a link that explains how the controls work. I don't see any information with the demo download. Every time I get in the water I drownd becarse I can't figure out how to swim up or down, and I can't make Lara do a flip since she turns in the direction of the button even when I hit jump at the same time etc. Mike