Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
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Developers | |
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Crystal Dynamics | |
Publishers | |
Eidos Interactive | |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 8, 1999 |
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.
- Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS; use SRHook to fix.[1]
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 | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Delete/rename video files[citation needed] |
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Wrace's SR1 Patch
- Fan that created by Wrace, that improves compatibility with modern versions of Windows, fixing various bugs and adding subtitles and in-game achievements.
Installation of Wrace's SR1 Patch[citation needed] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | |
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 settings
Widescreen resolution
- This fix causes disappearing textures on the sides of the screen, which becomes progressively worse with wider aspect ratios.
Hor+ widescreen support[4] |
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Input settings
Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. | |||
German | ||||
Russian | Use Wrace's SR1 Patch. |
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 unresolved
Cutscenes skipped if SRHook is installed
- If you use SRHook to be able to play at >30fps, the game will skip all prerendered cutscenes.[5]
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.
- It's strongly recommended to save only after finishing the elevator puzzle and defeating Melchiah past this point, without reloading (you won't need to go back there anyway).[6]
Issues fixed
Raziel runs in circles if a gamepad is connected
Use theafien's soulreaver-gamepad-fix[citation needed] |
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Use Peixoto's patch[citation needed] |
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Crashes with resolutions larger than 640x480
Use Winplay DLL[citation needed] |
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Crash when the game starts
Use Peixoto's patch[citation needed] |
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Gamma calibration not working
Use Peixoto's patch[citation needed] |
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Low frame rate on Windows 8
Use windowed mode[citation needed] |
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Set up D3DWindower to run the game in windowed mode. |
Use DLL fix[citation needed] |
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Hardware acceleration not available
Delete atiumdag.dll[citation needed] |
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Go to the installation folder and delete or rename the file Notes
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Audio issues
- On modern computers, audio may have issues such as dialogue skipping at some points. In this case, to solve the issue you have to set the sampling frequency from the control panel of your audio card to a lower level (44.1 kHz should be fine).[citation needed]
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) | 98, XP, Vista, 7 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III AMD Athlon MP | |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 512 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 7 compatible | DirectX 9 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] 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.[3]
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Widescreen hack/framerate uncapper for SR1 - Square Enix Forums
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Helix Mod: Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
- ↑ Game crshes on elevator to before Melchiah