Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is a singleplayer top-down view action and adventure game in the Legacy of Kain series.
The PC version eliminates loading times which exist in the PlayStation version. However, compared to it, animations are slightly slower, and FMVs are of lower quality with mono audio.
The game suffers from crashes, low sound quality and other issues on modern operating systems; the OpenGL wrapper fixes them.
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
Source |
DRM |
Notes |
Keys |
OS |
Retail |
|
North American physical copy protection causes bad sectors. |
|
|
GOG.com |
|
Uses GOG's custom DirectX wrapper |
|
|
- A free demo version is available from Archive.org.
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 FMVs support, HQ cutscenes with stereo sound, subtitles and more.
- Eliminates the need for a slowdown program for fast CPUs and fixes various crashes.
- 2.0 version requires Windows 2000 at minimum; 2.2 requires Windows 7 at minimum.
- By express request of mod co-creator Wrace, PCGamingWiki is, for reasons known only to Wrace, forbidden from providing any direct links to the mod - including to the author's own official mod page. As such, please copy and paste the following search query/queries into any search engine:
Wrace Blood Omen Legacy of Kain CubanRaul's Community Patch
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
- Config files are not in plain text format.
Save game data location
Video
Input
XInput prompts - Verok's GL wrapper & patch.
DualShock prompts - Verok's GL wrapper & patch.
Audio
Localizations
Issues fixed
System Locale/Language Check Failed
Error message for an "invalid locale".
- On modern versions of Windows, this error occurs at game startup when the language for non-Unicode programs is set to something the game does not support.
Change language for non-Unicode programs
|
- Open the Control Panel and set View by: to
Category .
- Click Clock, Language, and Region and then Region.
- Under the Administrative tab, click Change system locale....
- 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 refers to Windows 8.1.
|
Crashes When Loading a Save or After Playing the Introduction Cutscene
Disable Data Execution Prevention for KAIN.exe
|
- Open the Control Panel and set View by: to
Large icons .
- Click System and then Advanced system settings.
- Click Settings... under Performance.
- Under the Data Execution Prevention tab, set Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select:.
- Click Add..., then go to the game directory and add
Kain.exe to the list.
Notes
- Exact steps vary slightly depending on your Windows version. The above refers to Windows 7.
|
Freezes after Kain's speech in the tavern or mausoleum
- if the PC specs exceed the game requirements, this will trigger a freeze after Kain's speech in the tavern or mausoleum.
To avoid this issue, the FSB (Front Side Bus) frequency must be decreased to a value that does not cause problems with the game; usually 100Mhz or 66Mhz.
For all those who do not have the possibility to configure this option, it's necessary to rely on 3rd party solutions such as "CPUKILLER" or "Verok's GL wrapper & patch".
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
|
GOG.com version uses 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
References