Installation:

CD version:

1. Open your TR5 CD in file explorer to view its contents.
2. Copy over the listed files into the folder you have TR5 installed:

• Entire audio folder
• Entire data folder
• Entire fmv folder
• Entire screens folder
• SCRIPT.DAT
• <language.dat> (whichever language your game version is in, typically English.dat or US/UK.dat

3. Download the latest version of the patch
4. unzip the archive and copy over the contents to you TR5 folder, overwrite when prompted.
5. Enjoy!

Steam/GoG version:

1. Download the latest version of the patch
2. unzip the archive and copy over the contents to you TR5 folder, overwrite when prompted.
3. Enjoy!

New options menu:

accessible through the title options menu/pause options menu

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1. FootPrints:

• Toggles footprints on and off.

2. Point Light Shadows:

Determines behavior of point light/dynamic light shadows.

• TR4: Brings more physically accurate shadowing.
• TR5: Less physically accurate, produces broader lighting.

3. Shadow Mode:

Determines shadow shape

• Original: Original octagon shape.
• Circle: A flat semi-transparent circle.
• PSX: A faded circle similar to the shadow present in the PSX version.

4. Fix climb up delay:

• Fixes the 1 second delay for Lara’s ledge climb up.

5. Flexible crawling:

• Toggles more responsive crawling with less freezes in Lara’s moveset.

6. Cutscene skipper:

• Toggles the cutscene skipper. (Keep in mind, normal flybies are not cutscenes!) Skip cutscenes using the ESC button.

7. Cheats:

Toggles ingame cheats on and off. For inventory cheats, highlight the Timex-TMX.

• DOZY: Flycheat. During DOZY, pressing Action emits a strong white light, and pressing Roll turns Lara around faster than directional buttons.
• GUNS: Inventory cheat. Gives Lara all the guns present in the level.
• BITS: Inventory cheat. Unlocks the special features menu.
• ITEM: Inventory cheat. Gives Lara all the items (puzzles/keys/crowbar/unlimited flares, etc.) present in the level.
• SKIP: Inventory cheat. Skips to the next level.
• HEAL: Inventory cheat. Fills Lara’s healthbar.

8. Bar Positions:

Changes the positions of the bars on the screen.

• • Original: original PC bar positions 

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  • Improved: improved PC bar positions 

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  • PSX: PSX bar positions

   

• 8. Enemy bars:

  • Toggles an enemy health bar on and off.

  9. Ammo counter:

  • Toggles a weapon ammo counter on and off.

  10. Gameover menu:

  • Toggles a PSX-like gameover menu after Lara dies. 

   

• 11. Fog:

  • Toggles volumetric fog on and off. 

• 12. TR4 Camera:

  • Toggles TR4 camera behavior on and off.

  13. Bar Mode:

  Determines the mode of the bars.

  • original: original TR4 bars.
  • TR5: TR5 bar colors.
  • PSX: PSX bar colors.

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  14. Crawl Tilting:

  • Toggles Lara tilting while crawling on sloped surfaces.

  15. PSX Skies:

  • Toggles using the PSX sprite for the sky.

  16. TR4 loadscreens:

  • Toggles using original picture or new TR4 style loading screens.

  17. Loadbar style:

  Determines the style of the loading bar in the loading screens.

  • TR4: big bar, like TR4.
  • TR5: original small TR5 bar.

  18. mono screen style:

  Determines the style of the inventory/pause menu background.

  • original: The original yellow-ish style.
  • TR4: The TR4 black and white.
  • Clear: Clear game screen as is, no color modification.

  19. Loading text:

  • Toggles the “Loading” text in loading screens. Note: TR5 loadbar style will ignore this option and never show the text. This is intentional and will not change.

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Installation:

Steam/GoG version:

1. Get the latest release 
2. unzip the archive and copy over the contents to you TR4 folder, overwrite when prompted.
3. Enjoy!

CD version:

1. Open your TR4 CD in file explorer to view its contents.
2. Copy over the listed files into the folder you have TR4 installed:

• Entire audio folder
• Entire data folder
• Entire fmv folder
• SCRIPT.DAT
• <language.dat> (whichever language your game version is in, typically English.dat or US/UK.dat

3. Get the latest release package that says “exe + dll”
4. unzip the archive and copy over the contents to you TR4 folder, overwrite when prompted.
5. Enjoy!

New options menu:

accessible through the title options menu/pause options menu

1. FootPrints:

• Toggles footprints on and off.

2. Shadow Mode:

Determines shadow shape

• Original: Original octagon shape.
• Circle: A flat semi-transparent circle.
• PSX: A faded circle similar to the shadow present in the PSX version.

3. Crawl Tilting:

• Toggles Lara tilting while crawling on sloped surfaces. video

4. Flexible crawling:

• Toggles more responsive crawling with less freezes in Lara’s moveset.

5. Fix climb up delay:

• Fixes the 1 second delay for Lara’s ledge climb up.

6. Gameover menu:

• Toggles a PSX-like gameover menu after Lara dies.

7. Bar Mode:

Determines the mode of the bars.

• original: original TR4 bars.
• TR5: TR5 bar colors.
• PSX: PSX bar colors.

8. Bar Positions:

Changes the positions of the bars on the screen.

• original: original PC TR4 positions. 

• improved: same as original but flips the positions of the air and dash bar. 

• PSX: PSX bar positions. 

9. Enemy bars:

• Toggles the enemy health bar on and off.

10. Cutscene skipper:

• Toggles the cutscene skipper. (Keep in mind, normal flybies are not cutscenes!) Skip cutscenes using the ESC button.

11. Cheats:

Toggles ingame cheats on and off.

• DOZY: Flycheat. During DOZY, pressing Action emits a strong white light, and pressing Roll turns Lara around faster than directional buttons.
• HEAL: Inventory cheat. Face north and select the savegame item. Fills Lara’s healthbar.

The rest lists the original cheats

• HELP: Inventory cheat. Face north and select the loadgame item. Skips the level.
• BITS: Inventory cheat. Face north and select the large-med item. gives all items/keys present in the level.
• GUNS: Inventory cheat. Face north and select the small-med item. gives all weapons and unlimited ammo.

12. Loading text:

Toggled the loading text in loading screens.

13. mono screen style:

Determines the style of the inventory/pause menu background.

• original: original black and white.
• TR5: The TR5 yellow-ish style.
• Clear: Clear game screen as is, no color modification.

14. loadbar style:

Determines the style of the loading bar in the loading screens.

• TR4: original big bar, like TR4.
• TR5: small TR5 bar.

15. look transparency:

Toggles Lara going transparent when looking around.

16. ammo counter:

Toggles a weapon ammo counter on and off.

17. ammotype hotkeys:

Toggles the hotkeys that change the ammotypes. While having a weapon with multiple ammotypes equipped (eg. shotgun), tap its hotkey and the ammotype will change, and a text notification with the new ammotype will pop up on the screen.

18. combat cam tilt:

Toggles the camera slightly tilting up when taking out weapons.

19. Inv healthbar:

Toggles the healthbar appearing in the inventory when looking over the medipacks.

20. static lighting:

Toggles static lighting.

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