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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

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

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
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 play 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
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVED\^{[Note 1]}

Config files are not in plain text format.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVED\^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
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.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		In the GOG.com version, the `dxcfg.exe` application can achieve this.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		In the GOG.com version, the `dxcfg.exe` application can achieve this.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		In the GOG.com version, it can be forced through `dxcfg.exe`.
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

Control options.

XInput prompts - Verok's GL wrapper & patch.

DualShock prompts - Verok's GL wrapper & patch.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
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

XInput-compatible controllers		Use Verok's GL wrapper & patch to add proper support for XInput controllers.
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.
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
Button prompts

Additional information
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 options.

Audio feature	State	Notes
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.

English subtitles.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Subs possible with Verok's GL wrapper & patch.
French				Retail only
German				Retail only. download for digital versions.
Hungarian				Retail only. Subs possible with Verok's GL wrapper & patch.
Italian				Retail only. Subs possible with Verok's GL wrapper & patch.
Japanese				Retail only
Brazilian Portuguese				Retail only. Subs possible with Verok's GL wrapper & patch.
Russian				Retail only. Subs possible with Verok's GL wrapper & patch.
Spanish				Fan translation.

Issues fixed

System Locale/Language Check Failed

Error message for an "invalid locale".

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]}

Go to the "Region" Control Panel.
Go to the "Administrative" tab, then press "Change system locale..." under "Language for non-Unicode programs".
Set the system locale to one the game supports, such as "English (United States)" for the US release.

Notes

Exact steps vary slightly depending on your Windows version. The above is for Windows 8.1.

Game Crashes When Loading a Save or After Playing the Introduction Cutscene

Disable Data Execution Prevention for KAIN.exe^{[citation needed]}

Go to the "System" Control Panel.
Press "Advanced system settings" tab, then press "Settings.." under "Performance".
Go to the "Data Execution Prevention" tab, check "Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select:", then press "Add...", then go to the game's path and add KAIN.exe to the list.

Notes

Exact steps vary slightly depending on your Windows version. The above is for Windows 7.

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
Direct3D		GOG use custom DirectX wrapper.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	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.

[gamedir-1] 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).

[2] Verified by User:MetalPlateMage on 25 July 2015‎
Tested using ShadowPlay.

[Note 1]

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+{{++}} Windowed mode support, {{term|FMV}}s play without interlacing, optional unfiltered scaler, WinXP/7/10 compatibility fix, removed CD check, 60 FPS support like the PS1 version, optional PS1 {{term|FMV}} support, HQ cutscenes with stereo sound, subtitles and more.
 ==Game data==

Developers

	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