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BloodRayne 2

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This page is for the original 2005 version. For the updated 2020 version, see BloodRayne 2: Terminal Cut.

The game lacks an FPS limiter or vsync and causes a lot of bugs and physical crash frame rates over 60 FPS.the only way to fix it is to use the Bloodrayne 2 - FSAA patch.
BloodRayne 2
BloodRayne 2 cover
Developers
Terminal Reality
Publishers
Majesco
Engines
Infernal Engine
Release dates
Windows August 2, 2005
Reception
Metacritic 67
IGDB 64
Taxonomy
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Hack and slash
Art styles Realistic
Themes Supernatural
Series BloodRayne
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BloodRayne 2 on Wikipedia
BloodRayne
BloodRayne 2002
BloodRayne 2 2005
BloodRayne: Betrayal 2014
BloodRayne: Terminal Cut 2020
BloodRayne 2: Terminal Cut 2020
BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites 2021

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)
English copies use SecuROM 7 DRM. Russian copies use StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
GOG.com (unavailable)
DRM-free
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
Included with BloodRayne 2: Terminal Cut.
A demo is still available on Steam (per direct link): steam://install/3850

Essential improvements

BloodRayne 2 Patch

BloodRayne 2 FSAA Patch configuration tool
BloodRayne 2 FSAA Patch configuration tool
A project that fixes the BloodRayne 2 'BR2 FSAA Patch 1.666' patch[5] on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.
Adds support for custom resolutions and refresh rates, plus other enhancements and fixes.

All Windows compatibility settings for br2.exe need to be disabled.

Skip intro videos

Skip intro videos[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\video\.
  2. Delete or rename alien.mpg, infernal.mpg, and logo.mpg.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\system\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3820/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savegame\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3820/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Launcher options
Launcher options

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Use unofficial patch to select widescreen resolution
  1. Install the BloodRayne 2 Patch.
  2. Open br2fsaaConfig.exe and set desired resolution in the "Force Resolution" section.
  3. Set "Force Aspect Ratio" to "Vert-". "Hor+" will cause rendering issues.
  4. Save configuration.

Windowed

Force windowed[citation needed]
  1. Download and run DxWnd.
  2. Click on Edit, then Add.
  3. Set the Path to <path-to-game>\br2.exe.
  4. Set the desired window position and size.
  5. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed.
  6. Click OK, then File and Save.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Controller support

Fix Xbox 360 Controller support[6]
  1. Download BloodRayne 2 Xbox 360 Controller Fix.
  2. Extract all files to the installation folder and replace the original files when prompted.
  3. If you got the error message: "Can't read the gamepad. Make sure a gamepad is plugged in and try again." delete the .dll files Dinput.dll and Dinput8.dll, and then configure the keys manually on the game option screen.

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Fan translation, download.
Spanish
Turkish
Fan çevirisi, İndir.

Change text language

Change text (menus and subtitles) language in GOG.com and Steam version[7]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\system\.
  2. Edit rayne.ini.
  3. Set language=EN to your desidered language. language=DE is for German, language=FR for French, language=IT for Italian and language=ES for Spanish.

Issues unresolved

Issues fixed

FSAA Patch crashes the game on startup

Use fixed version by elishacloud[8]

Install the BloodRayne 2 Patch instead.

High refresh rate causes issues with movement

High refresh rate may break the game - for example, you can get stuck mid-air after performing double-jump with the slow-motion mode enabled.
Lock the game at 60 fps
  1. Set your screen refresh rate to 60 Hz.
  2. Use either the BloodRayne 2 Patch or your GPU driver settings to enable Vsync in BloodRayne 2.

Black screen during cutscenes

Fix cutscenes with FSAA Patch[5]
  1. Install the BloodRayne 2 Patch.
  2. Load the Configuration Tool, and go to the 'Cut Scene' tab.
  3. Click on "Install The NEW cutscene.dll".
  4. Select "Internal" video player.
  5. Click on "Test Configuration". If you see a video from the game, you can skip the next 3 steps.
  6. Alternatively, select the external video player that you want to use to play the videos.
  7. Select the path to your video player. The tool will try to find it. If you see a blank text box, you must enter the path manually.
  8. Enter the parameters that your video player needs to start to play a video in fullscreen, and to exit after the playback.
    • For example if using mpv, use --fullscreen --keep-open=no.
    • Additionally, --no-input-cursor --no-input-default-bindings will lock all keyboard/mouse controls in mpv while the cutscene is playing.
    • You can re-enable skipping of cutscenes in mpv with the ESC key. Create text file [path to mpv.exe]\portable_config\input.conf with the line ESC quit in it.
  9. After you finish configuring playback method, click on "Write Configuration To cutscene.ini".
  10. If you cannot make it work, click on "Restore The Original cutscene.dll".
Fix cutscenes with dgVoodoo[9]
  1. Download and extract dgVoodoo.
  2. Open the MS folder and copy the contents to the installation folder.
  3. Open dgVoodooCpl.exe.
  4. Click on "Add" and choose the installation folder.
  5. Go to the DirectX tab.
  6. Disable "dgVoodoo Watermark" and click OK.

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Fullscreen mode defaults to 100 Hz, even if the screen refresh rate is set higher than that.
Set screen refresh rate[9]
  1. Install the BloodRayne 2 Patch.
  2. Open br2fsaaConfig.exe and set the refresh rate if needed.
Set screen refresh rate[9]
  1. Download and extract dgVoodoo.
  2. Open the MS folder and copy the contents to the installation folder.
  3. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe.
  4. Click on "Add" and choose the installation folder.
  5. Enable "Enumerate refresh rates".
  6. Go to the DirectX tab.
  7. Set the resolution from the list (e.g. 1920x1080, 119Hz).
  8. Disable "dgVoodoo Watermark" and click OK.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
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.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio DirectSound3D

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE
Processor (CPU) 1.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 3
DirectX 8.1 compatible

Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. 2.0 2.1 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).
  3. 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References