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Revision as of 00:17, 13 January 2022

Legacy of Kain: Defiance
Legacy of Kain: Defiance cover
Developers
Crystal Dynamics
Windows Nixxes Software[1]
Publishers
Retail Eidos Interactive
Digital Square Enix
Release dates
Windows December 17, 2003
Reception
Metacritic 70
Taxonomy
Series Legacy of Kain
Legacy of Kain: Defiance on HowLongToBeat
Legacy of Kain: Defiance on IGDB
Legacy of Kain: Defiance on MobyGames
Legacy of Kain: Defiance 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

Essential improvements

Unofficial patches

Unsupported Patch 1.1 patches the North American retail release to 1.1 version. Not required for any other version.

Skip intro videos

Instructions
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\movies.
  2. Delete or rename eidos.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Legacy of Kain - Defiance\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Crystal Dynamics\Legacy of Kain: Defiance\1.00.000
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224300/pfx/[Note 1]
The config file is not in plain text format.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Legacy of Kain - Defiance\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224300/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

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
See Widescreen resolution
Ultra-widescreen
See Widescreen resolution
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See Windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Enabled/disabled, no description of method.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Run defiance.exe with -setup command line argument and tick Vertical Sync
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Uncapped frame rate causes deformed graphical elements.
Use 3rd party SW or GPU control panel to lock FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen fix[citation needed]
  1. Download Widescreen fix by nemesis2000.
  2. Extract sr3.7z files to the installation folder (password=sr3).
  3. Edit sr3.ini to set the resolution.

Notes

Supported exe size: 1 421 312 bytes.

Windowed

Use DxWnd
  1. Download and run DxWnd as administrator.
  2. Click on Edit, then Add.
  3. Set name to Legacy of Kain - Defiance.
  4. Set path to <path-to-game>\defiance.exe.
  5. Set Acquire admin caps.
  6. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed.
  7. Click on DirectX tab, set DirectX9.
  8. Click on Mouse tab, set Cursor visibility to Hide.
  9. Click OK, then File and Save.
  10. Run the game directly from DxWnd.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Has on/off options for sound and music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Game pauses when focus is lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail only
German
Retail only
Italian
Retail only. Download.
Hungarian
Fan translation
Spanish
Retail only. Download.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Legacy of Kain: Defiance.
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Issues fixed

Kain's cloak and Raziel's wings are deformed

Limit the frame rate to 60 FPS[citation needed]
Enable VSync and set the refresh rate to 60hz

Random crashes and freezes

Force CPU affinity to one core[citation needed]
Use DxWnd

Use the following configuration in DxWnd:

  • Under the Compat. tab, tick Set single core process affinity.

Low FPS when running from DxWnd

Running from DxWnd, the frame rate is often capped at 40 FPS.
Replace Binkw32.dll
  1. Download the latest version here.
  2. Copy the DLL file to the game directory.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98SE, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 700 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0b 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>/224300/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (224300) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References