Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

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Release dates
Windows	September 8, 1999
Taxonomy
Series	Legacy of Kain

• Windows 10 Download
• Soul Reaver Windows 10 Fix
• Windows 10 Iso
• Reaver For Windows 10
• Soul Reaver 2 Windows 10

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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

2Essential improvements 3Game data 4Video 6Audio 8Issues fixed 9Other information

Key points

Windows 10 Download

A straight conversion of the PlayStation version, with none of the enhancements of the Dreamcast port.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

GOG.com Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail	SafeDiscDRM[Note 1]
Gamesplanet	Includes Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2, Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 and Legacy of Kain: Defiance.
GOG.com
Steam (unavailable)

SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements[edit]

Wrace's SR1 Patch[edit]

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
Download Wrace's SR1 Patch. Extract SR1_Patch.zip. Move all of the files to <path-to-game>, overwriting already existing files if needed.

Game data[edit]

Soul Reaver Windows 10 Fix

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%DocumentsSoul Reaverkain2.txt
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224920/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location[edit]

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[edit]

Video[edit]

Graphics feature	State	Notes
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[edit]

This fix causes disappearing textures on the sides of the screen, which becomes progressively worse with wider aspect ratios.

Hor+ widescreen support[3]

Open kain2.exe with a hex editor such as HxD. Press Ctrl+F and change the Datatype option to Hex-Values. Type 0000203F in the text field. 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 Save the changes. Download dgVoodoo 2. Copy the contents of the MS folder to the installation folder. Run dgVoodoo Setup and add the installation folder to the list. Go to the DirectX tab and set the desired resolution. Uncheck the dgVoodoo Watermark option. Apply the changes. Set any 4:3 resolution in the game config.

Input[edit]

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
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

XInput-compatible controllers	Use Wrace's SR1 Patch.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers	Use Wrace's SR1 Patch.
DualShock button prompts
Light bar support
Connection modes	unknown

Generic/other controllers	Use Wrace's SR1 Patch.
Button prompts

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio[edit]

Audio feature	State	Notes
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
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[edit]

3D modes	Native	Notes
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[edit]

Crash when the game starts[edit]

Use Wrace's SR1 Patch.

Raziel runs in circles if a gamepad is connected[edit]

Use Wrace's SR1 Patch.

Hardware acceleration not available for AMD GPU[edit]

Delete atiumdag.dll
Go to the installation folder and delete or rename the file atiumdag.dll.

Game crashes when reaching Melchiah gates after loading a game[edit]

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]

Audio issues[edit]

On modern computers, audio may have issues such as dialogue skipping at some points.

Use Wrace's SR1 Patch.

Windows 10 Iso

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements[edit]

Reaver For Windows 10

Windows
Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 200 MHz	Intel Pentium 266 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	320 MB	750 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 6 compatible	DirectX 9 compatible

Soul Reaver 2 Windows 10

Notes

1. ↑SafeDisc retail DRMdoes not work on Windows 10^[1] and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]
2. ↑ ^2.02.1File/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

1. ↑Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
2. ↑Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
3. ↑Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver - Widescreen Tutorial - YouTube
4. ↑Native support of ALL gamepads for SR1
5. ↑How to fix immediately corrupted save