Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
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Developers | |
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Silicon Knights | |
Windows | Semi Logic Entertainment |
Publishers | |
Retail | Crystal Dynamics |
Windows | Activision |
Digital | Square Enix |
Release dates | |
Windows | August 1997 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, Adventure |
Themes | Fantasy |
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
- Some crashes and other issues on modern operating systems, though the OpenGL wrapper fixes this.
- Unofficial patches eliminate loading times.
- 40 FPS lock (slightly slower animations than PSX), 15 and 18 FPS FMVs. Fixed in the OpenGL wrapper.
- FMVs have inferior video quality compared to the PSX and have mono audio; some sounds are reduced in quality as well. These issues are also fixed with the OpenGL wrapper.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Physical copy protection: bad sectors. | |||
GOG.com | Uses GOG's custom DirectX wrapper. |
Essential improvements
Verok's GL wrapper & patch
- Windowed mode support, FMVs plays without interlacing, optional unfiltered scaler, WinXP/7/10 compatibility fix, removed CD check, 60 FPS support like the PS1 version, optional PS1 FMV support, HQ cutscenes with stereo sound, subtitles and more.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SAVED\[Note 1] |
- Config files are not in plain text format.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SAVED\[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | 640x480, 640x480i, and 320x240 pillarboxed only (latter 2 accessible by pressing F12 in-game). | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Use Verok's GL wrapper & patch.In the GOG.com version, the dxcfg.exe application can achieve this. |
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Borderless fullscreen windowed | In the GOG.com version, the dxcfg.exe application can achieve this. |
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Anisotropic filtering (AF) | In the GOG.com version, the dxcfg.exe application can achieve this. |
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Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | In the GOG.com version,Can be forced through dxcfg.exe . |
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60 FPS | 40 FPS lock, 15 and 18 FPS FMVs.[1] Use Verok's GL wrapper & patch to increase the FPS. | ||
120+ FPS | Gameplay is tied to the framerate and going above 60 FPS makes the game play too fast. |
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 | Cannot quit game (hard-coded escape key) or skip FMVs (possible with Verok's GL wrapper & patch). Qualifies otherwise. | |
Controller remapping | Uses numbers, not face buttons. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | Use Verok's GL wrapper & patch to add proper support for XInput controllers. | |
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Xbox button prompts | Use Verok's GL wrapper & patch for Xbox face buttons. | |
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | Use DS4Windows with Verok's GL wrapper & patch. | |
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PlayStation button prompts | Use Verok's GL wrapper & patch for DualShock face buttons. | |
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes | Wired, Wireless (Bluetooth) |
Generic/other controllers | ||
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Button prompts |
Additional information | ||
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Button prompts | Use Verok's GL wrapper & patch for Xbox and DualShock face buttons. | |
Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | Use Verok's GL wrapper & patch for haptic feedback. | |
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sound and music. | |
Surround sound | Possible via OpenAL with Verok's GL wrapper & patch. | |
Subtitles | Possible with Verok's GL wrapper & patch. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Losing focus causes screen to go black. Transitioning FMV<->Game fixes. | |
EAX support | Possible via OpenAL with Verok's GL wrapper & patch. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | Subs possible with Verok's GL wrapper & patch. | |||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hungarian | Subs possible with Verok's GL wrapper & patch. | |||
Italian | Subs possible with Verok's GL wrapper & patch. | |||
Japanese | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | Subs possible with Verok's GL wrapper & patch. | |||
Russian | Subs possible with Verok's GL wrapper & patch. | |||
Spanish | Fan translation. |
Issues fixed
System Locale/Language Check Failed
- This error occurs on game startup with modern Windows when your language for non-Unicode programs is set to something the game doesn't "support" (note that in practice the vast majority of games run fine on different locales from their own).
Change the language for non-Unicode programs[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Game Crashes When Loading a Save or After Playing the Introduction Cutscene
Disable Data Execution Prevention for KAIN.exe[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Game Freezes After Initial Dialog in Windows 9X
- After the introduction of the game the screen freezes. This bug is active when your computer's performance is too high for your game requirements. To prevent this from happening it is necessary to decrease the FSB (Front Side Bus) frequency to reach a value that does not cause problems with the game, usually 100Mhz or 66Mhz. It is the frequency of the FSB clock that will determine how will the performance of the motherboard and processor of a machine. For those who do not have hardware with this configuration capability a less efficient alternative is to use software specialized in occupying processor resources to slow the execution of applications, known as "cpu killer".
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | GOG use custom DirectX wrapper. |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 100 MHz | Intel Pentium 166 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 12 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | SVGA 1 MB of VRAM | |
Sound (audio device) | Sound Blaster compatible | |
Other | 4x CD-ROM |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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
- ↑ Verified by User:MetalPlateMage on 25 July 2015
- Tested using ShadowPlay.