Difference between revisions of "Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2"
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Revision as of 16:07, 25 July 2021
Developers | |
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Crystal Dynamics | |
Windows | Nixxes Software |
Publishers | |
Retail | Eidos Interactive |
Digital | Square Enix |
Engines | |
Gex Engine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 30, 2001 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 77 |
IGDB | 95 |
Taxonomy | |
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
- Many users report crashing, running the game from one CPU core alleviates this issue. Run on '0 core' from 'Affinity' set options in Task Manager. Make sure priority is also set to 'High' in Task Manager settings
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc V2 DRM[Note 1] | |||
Includes Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 and Legacy of Kain: Defiance. | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam |
Demo
A demo is available here.
Essential improvements
Peixoto's patch
Peixoto's patch solves frequent crashes by restoring vsync, allows super sampling anti aliasing and Keayboard\mouse emulation with Xinput gamepads
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Crystal Dynamics\Soul Reaver 2\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224940/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Soul Reaver 2\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224940/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | FSAA. Can't be enabled when Fullscreen effects is selected in the setup program. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Change V-Sync in the game's setup program. Access the program with this parameter: "sr2.exe -setup" | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | High FPS causes glitches and crashes - lock FPS in 3rd party SW or drivers.[3] |
Widescreen resolution
Widescreen fix[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Windowed
Windowed mode[citation needed] |
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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 | Uses DirectInput. XInput controllers may experience issues, use Xidi to fix them. | |
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Has on/off options for sound and music. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Russian | Unofficial translation by «Fargus» + «7Wolf» | |||
Spanish | Retail only. Download. | |||
Italian | Retail only. Download. |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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Nvidia 3D Vision | See Helix Mod: Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2. | ||
vorpX | G3D, Z3D User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.55.4, see profile introdution. Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum. |
Issues fixed
Compatibility issues under Windows 10
Use DxWnd[citation needed] |
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Use the following configuration in DxWnd:
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Vsync Option in the launcher not working on Windows10
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Physics buggy and glitching
- Enable V-Sync in the launcher and set refresh rate on 60hz
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | ME, 2000 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 450 MHz AMD K6-III 500 MHz |
Intel Pentium III 700 MHz AMD Athlon 700 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 850 MB | 1 GB |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible | 32 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (224940) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ It's FPS problem