Failed To Open Bigfile.000 Tomb Raider 2013 May 2026

If you continue seeing the error after all these steps, your hard drive may have bad sectors, or the game’s registry entries for file paths may be corrupted (rare). A full Windows reinstallation is almost never required — reinstalling the game fixes it in 99% of cases.

In Tomb Raider (2013), bigfile.000 is the first and most important of several large archive files ( .000 , .001 , .tiger , etc.) that contain the game’s assets: levels, textures, audio, scripts, and more. The game loads these files like a virtual hard drive. If it cannot open bigfile.000 , it cannot start. The Error Message When launching the game, you may see: