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Soulbringer

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Soulbringer
Soulbringer cover
Developers
Infogrames
Publishers
KISS ltd
Release dates
Windows June 30, 2000
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Soulbringer on Wikipedia
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General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
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)
 SecuROM 3 DRM.
Windows
Amazon.com
DRM-free
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename intro.bik[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\
  2. Delete or rename intro.bik and interplay.bik (if present).

Unofficial patches

Better DirectX Compatibility Patch
Better DirectX Compatibility Patch Extras

The extras package is meant for versions that are missing the Interplay cinematic <path-to-game>\data\interplay.bik It also updates one of game script files and ensures English language files match with those which the updated executables have been tested with. All files have been taken from retail version of the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\soul.opt[Note 1]
%APPDATA%\GOG\SoulBringer\LauncherConfig.ini
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/283310/pfx/[Note 2]
Both the GOG.com and Steam versions use LauncherConfig.ini.
The GOG.com and Steam versions support an additional Config.ini for controlling the video scaling method (this file does not exist by default).[1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\save\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/283310/pfx/[Note 2]
save.dat is an index of save slot names.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Syncs saves and settings.

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.
Video settings.
Video settings.
Advanced settings.
Advanced settings.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

The Steam version includes all languages but the language switcher does not work; see Can't change language (Steam) to change manually.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Russian
Unofficial translation by «7Wolf»

Issues fixed

Game does not start (Steam)

Install the Soulbringer Steam startup fix.

Can't change language (Steam)

The Steam version's language switcher does not work.
Set language manually[2]
  1. Edit <path-to-game>\data\lang.dat
  2. Change english e to french f, spanish s, german g, dutch d, or italian i
  3. Save your changes and close the file.
  4. Go to <path-to-game>\data\wavs\vo\english
  5. Copy everything into the folder for the game language you set in lang.dat.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) ME XP
Processor (CPU) 800 MHz 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB 2 GB

Notes

  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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References