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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver cover
Developers
Crystal Dynamics
Publishers
Eidos Interactive
Release dates
Windows September 8, 1999
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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver on Wikipedia
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Legacy of Kain
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

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224920/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savegame.her[Note 3]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224920/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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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]
  1. Download SRHook.
  2. Copy the contents to the installation folder.
  3. Open kain2.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
  4. Press Ctrl+F and change the Datatype option to Hex-Values.
  5. Type 0000203F in the text field.
  6. Replace the 0000203F value with:
    • ABAA2A3F to set 5:4 aspect ratio
    • 8988083F to set 25:16 aspect ratio
    • 5555053F to set 16:10 aspect ratio
    • 0000003F to set 15:9 aspect ratio
    • 0000F03E to set 16:9 aspect ratio
    • 0000B43E to set 21:9 aspect ratio
  7. Save the changes.
  8. Download dgVoodoo 2.
  9. Copy the contents of the MS folder to the installation folder.
  10. Run dgVoodoo Setup and add the installation folder to the list.
  11. Go to the DirectX tab and set the desired resolution.
  12. Uncheck the dgVoodoo Watermark option.
  13. Apply the changes.
  14. Set any 4:3 resolution in the game config.

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.

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]

Issues fixed

Raziel runs in circles if a gamepad is connected

Use Peixoto's patch[citation needed]

Crashes with resolutions larger than 640x480

Use Winplay DLL[citation needed]

Crash when the game starts

Use Peixoto's patch[citation needed]

Gamma calibration not working

Use Peixoto's patch[citation needed]

Low frame rate on Windows 8

Use windowed mode[citation needed]

Set up D3DWindower to run the game in windowed mode.

Use DLL fix[citation needed]
  1. Download Windows 8 Fix.
  2. Extract the DLL to the installation folder.

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
Windows

System requirements

Windows
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

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/224920/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (224920) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  3. ↑ 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