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Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 cover
Developers
Crystal Dynamics
Windows Nixxes Software
Publishers
Square Enix
Release dates
Windows March 29, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 66
Taxonomy
Series Legacy of Kain
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 on HowLongToBeat
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 on IGDB
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 guide on StrategyWiki
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 on MobyGames
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 on Wikipedia
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

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/242960/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Blood Omen 2\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/242960/pfx/[Note 1]

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

Graphic Options
Graphic Options
Resolution Options
Resolution Options

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
Use Helix Mod: Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2.
Ultra-widescreen
See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the WSGF topic.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the WSGF topic.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Change V-Sync in the game's setup program. Access the program with this parameter: "bo2.exe -setup"
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Unlocked. Surpassing the 900-1000 fps range will slow down the main menu a lot and produce a physics glitch (brief teleporting and getting a bit stuck) when you touch walls or other geometry elements.

Input

Control Options
Control Options
Rebindable keys
Rebindable keys

Audio

Audio Options
Audio Options

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound & Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Spanish
Retail only. Download.
German

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2.
vorpX
Game crashing after intro on windows 7. Unknown if Windows 10 patch above will work with vorpx.

Issues fixed

Sluggish menu animations

Use dgVoodoo wrapper[1]
  1. Download the latest dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe and MS\D3D8.dll to your game folder (both to the root).
  3. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe from your game folder.
  4. Click on the .\ button in the upper right corner of the dgVoodoo Control Panel to set the config folder to the game folder.
  5. Click on the DirectX tab and disable dgVoodoo Watermark near the bottom.
  • (Optional) For the best image quality, also set Filtering to Force anisotropic 16x and Antialiasing (MSAA) to 8x.

Random freezes and crashes

Use Windows 10 patch[citation needed]
  1. Download the Legacy of Kain Blood Omen 2 Windows 10 patch.
  2. Unzip the files to the installation folder.
Set Affinity to single processor core[2]
  1. Start the game.
  2. While in main menu minimize the game by pressing Alt+Tab .
  3. Open the Task Manager (Ctrl+ Shift+Esc) and click on the "Process" tab (or "Details" on newer versions of Windows).
  4. Right click "bo2.exe" and click "Set Affinity".
  5. Make sure only "CPU 0" is selected.

Notes

The game now runs on only one processor core and should work without any crashes.

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7.0 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/242960/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (242960) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References