Difference between revisions of "Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver"
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Revision as of 20:50, 21 April 2021
Developers | |
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Crystal Dynamics | |
Publishers | |
Eidos Interactive | |
Engines | |
Gex Engine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 8, 1999 |
Taxonomy | |
Series | Legacy of Kain |
Legacy of Kain | |
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Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain | 1997 |
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver | 1999 |
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 | 2001 |
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 | 2002 |
Legacy of Kain: Defiance | 2003 |
Nosgoth | Cancelled |
Key points
- A straight conversion of the PlayStation version, with none of the enhancements of the Dreamcast port.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc DRM[Note 1] | |||
Includes Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2, Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 and Legacy of Kain: Defiance. | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Steam (unavailable) |
Essential improvements
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Soul Reaver\kain2.txt |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224920/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\savegame.her[Note 3] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224920/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS; use Wrace's SR1 Patch to fix. | ||
120+ FPS |
Widescreen resolution
- This fix causes disappearing textures on the sides of the screen, which becomes progressively worse with wider aspect ratios.
Hor+ widescreen support[3] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | Use Wrace's SR1 Patch for the native support of all controllers.[4] | |
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. | |
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. | |
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PlayStation button prompts | ||
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes |
Generic/other controllers | Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. | |
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Button prompts |
Additional information | ||
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Button prompts | ||
Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sound, Music, and Speech. | |
Surround sound | Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. | |
Subtitles | Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. | |||
German | ||||
Hungarian | Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. | |||
Russian | Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. | |||
Spanish | Retail only. Download. | |||
Italian | Retail only. Download. |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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Nvidia 3D Vision | See Helix Mod: Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. | ||
vorpX | Z3D User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.6, see profile introdution. Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum. |
Issues fixed
Crash when the game starts
Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. |
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Raziel runs in circles if a gamepad is connected
Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. |
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Hardware acceleration not available for AMD GPU
Delete atiumdag.dll |
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Go to the installation folder and delete or rename the file |
Game crashes when reaching Melchiah gates after loading a game
- After doing all the puzzles before Melchiah, if you load the game again and try to reach the gates before the boss battle, it'll crash.
Use Wrace's SR1 Patch.[5] |
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Audio issues
- On modern computers, audio may have issues such as dialogue skipping at some points.
Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. |
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Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | Win98 | Win10 |
Processor (CPU) | P200 | P266 |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | 32 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 320 MB | 750 MB |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 6 compatible | DirectX 9 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (224920) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver - Widescreen Tutorial - YouTube
- ↑ Native support of ALL gamepads for SR1
- ↑ How to fix immediately corrupted save