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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2

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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 cover
Developers
Crystal Dynamics
Windows Nixxes Software
Publishers
Square Enix
Engines
Gex Engine
Release dates
Windows October 30, 2001
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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 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

Many users report crashing with no permanent fixes, although it has been said running the game from one CPU core alleviates this issue.

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 V2 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 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Crystal Dynamics\Soul Reaver 2\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224940/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Soul Reaver 2\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224940/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Widescreen resolution

Widescreen fix[citation needed]
  1. Download Widescreen fix by nemesis2000.
  2. Extract sr2.7z files to the installation folder (password=sr2).
  3. Run upx.bat for GOG.com version of the game.
  4. Edit sr2.ini to set the resolution.

Notes

Supported exe size: 1 609 728 bytes.

Windowed

Windowed mode[citation needed]
  1. See D3DWindower and add the game to the program.
  2. Under the Direct Input tab, enable SetCursorPos and GetCursorPos.

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2.

Issues fixed

Compatibility issues under Windows 10

Use DxWnd[citation needed]

Use the following configuration in DxWnd:

  • Set the DirectX Version Hook setting to DirectX8. It can be found under the DirectX tab.
  • Set the Frames per Second setting to limit and 1 msec. The setting can be found under the Timing tab.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 ME, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 450 MHz
AMD K6-III 500 MHz		 Intel Pentium III 700 MHz
AMD Athlon 700 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 850 MB 1 GB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible 		32 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ 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>/224940/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (224940) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References