Troye created a fantastic patch for Tomb Raider 4 that not only fixes generic wide-screen issues but adds a number of quality of life updates; and the best thing is you can toggle most of those improvements on/off thus decide for yourself how close to Vanilla you want to be!
Installation:
Steam/GoG version:
- Get the latest release
- unzip the archive and copy over the contents to you TR4 folder, overwrite when prompted.
- Enjoy!
CD version:
- Open your TR4 CD in file explorer to view its contents.
- 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
- Get the latest release package that says “exe + dll”
- unzip the archive and copy over the contents to you TR4 folder, overwrite when prompted.
- 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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