Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
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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
Essential improvements
Wrace's SR1 Patch
- Fan patch created by Wrace that improves compatibility with modern versions of Windows, fixing various bugs, adding new sound engine and subtitles, native support of all gamepads and mouse, support of vibration for XInput gamepads, widescreen support and unlocking 60 frames per second, in-game map and in-game achievements, fix for storing / loading current level for the saves, additional menu item 'New Game+' to start it with already solved block puzzles, the possibility to skip logo movies at the run of the game.
Installation of Wrace's SR1 Patch |
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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