I'm sick of all this stuff. Who am I supposed to be angry about this week?

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The Tomb Raider series on DOS and Win9x. (Not the awful remake)

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Quoting: dreamer_You are right, the music is missing! I falsely presumed the ambient music will appear in some specific level areas - thanks for pointing this out. I managed to manually bring it back by converting mp3s to ogg (ffmpeg -i 02.mp3 02.ogg) and editing .cue file (GAME.DAT). SDL1.2_mixer has some wonky dependencies when it comes to playing mp3s, so that's the culprit. There is other .cue related bug [External Link] present, so I might as well make this fix automatic for future Boxtron versions and kill 2 bugs with one change. Thanks again for steering me in the right direction!

No worries, but I'm a bit worried now (especially after looking at some of the Lutris scripts). For a regular Windows Steam user (not one of us running it through Wine!) with a regular Tomb Raider installation, is that background ambient music and the menu music there?

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Quoting: anarchist_tomatoI just tried with Boxtron then, works with what appears to be full stability, though there is no "CD audio" (is it modified to run in the background by mp3 or something?). It's also running with original software rendering, and I still had to reduce the screensize 20+ years later! ;) My brother says it runs better through straight dosbox though. Maybe it's set to run like a 486 or early Pentium or something?

Steam version (PC version in general) was released without music - only PlayStation version had it :( There are ways to bring it back, documented on PCGW [External Link].

Sorry, I should clarify for anyone who might be following along. I was referring to the ambient background noise during levels and the menu music with the TR theme tune, which were in the PC version. The Playstation had sudden musical interludes when something exciting was about to happen, but they also had to use save crystals, so screw them! ;)

With the new Proton 4.11, TR2 and TR4 are *almost* working right, with many severe bugs fixed, like jolting and lighting problems, but the cutscenes aren't working. At this promising rate, I expect the TR series to be fully functional within a few major releases.

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Quoting: anarchist_tomatoHey, the original Tomb Raider (not the horrendous reboot) might work now. Cool.

It works out-of-the-box, but by disabling hardware accelerated version :(. Software rendering gives me stable, locked 50fps on my old laptop, but the game suffers from input-related DOSBox bugs. We rated it Silver in our compatibility reports [External Link].

I just tried with Boxtron then, works with what appears to be full stability, though there is no "CD audio" (is it modified to run in the background by mp3 or something?). It's also running with original software rendering, and I still had to reduce the screensize 20+ years later! ;) My brother says it runs better through straight dosbox though. Maybe it's set to run like a 486 or early Pentium or something?

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Hey, the original Tomb Raider (not the horrendous reboot) might work now. Cool.

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Mouse focus issues? Does that mean they've fixed the invisible wall bug? (That to me is the biggest bug we still have).

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Cool. Have they fixed the tearing yet, or are they sorting out the important stuff, like making sure the armpit hair in Hitman has the right level of PhysX glisten?

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Have they fixed the tearing yet?
Or are the focusing on the important things, like making sure a unicorn's left testicle sways properly in the wind?

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I think you can safely say this is on topic, Liam. ;)

Well if it has to run server-side, it has to run on Linux, right? Unless it went through yet *another* layer of streaming (vomit!).

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