Extract text from TIGER files
To convert your TIGER file to another format, you need Tomb Raider or other Game software.
To convert other file formats to the "Game Data Archive" file type, you need software like Tomb Raider or a similar tool.
A .tiger file is a proprietary Game Data Archive used exclusively by the Crystal Dynamics game engine, most notably for the Tomb Raider reboot trilogy (2013–2018). These massive archives - often exceeding 2GB - serve as containers for the game's raw assets, including DDS textures, FSB audio banks, 3D meshes, and scripts.
Users typically encounter these files when attempting to mod the game or extract the soundtrack and character models. The main issue is that .tiger files are not standard ZIP or RAR archives; they use a custom "BigFile" structure (signature TAFS) that standard operating systems cannot read. Furthermore, the contents are often referenced by separate DRM files, meaning simply "unzipping" them isn't enough - you need specialized unpackers that understand the file allocation table to reconstruct usable filenames and directory structures. Without the correct tools, the file appears as a corrupt or unreadable binary blob.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TIGER file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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If you want to convert TIGER file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use Tomb Raider or similar software from the "Game Asset Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to TIGER, try Tomb Raider or another comparable tool in the "Game Asset Archive" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our TIGER converter.