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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2

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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 cover
Developers
Crystal Dynamics
Windows Nixxes Software[1]
Publishers
2001-2009 Eidos Interactive
2009-2023 Square Enix
2023-present Crystal Dynamics
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Engines
Gex Engine
Release dates
Windows October 30, 2001
Reception
Metacritic 77
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Themes Fantasy
Series Legacy of Kain
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 on HowLongToBeat
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 on IGDB
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 on MobyGames
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 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

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 is a third-person game in the Legacy of Kain series.

General information

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

Availability

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Demo

A demo is available here.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.02 is the latest version. Digital distribution versions are already patched.

To install this patch on newer versions of Windows, run sr2pc102.exe as an administrator.

Soul Fixer

Fixes crashes related to audio (no longer requires single core affinity), resolution switching, and the Bink video player.
Fully restores motion blur by improving the effect, replaces FSAA with SMAA, and adds support for aspect ratio at any resolution.
Adds compatibility with all DirectInput and XInput controllers.
Requires version 1.02 from GOG.com or Steam.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Crystal Dynamics\Soul Reaver 2\1.00.000
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224940/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Soul Reaver 2\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224940/pfx/[Note 2]

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
Use Soul Fixer or see Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
See Widescreen resolution
Ultra-widescreen
Use Soul Fixer or see Widescreen resolution
4K Ultra HD
Use Soul Fixer
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Use Soul Fixer
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Use Soul Fixer
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FSAA. Can't be enabled when Fullscreen effects is ticked in the setup dialog.
Use Soul Fixer for SMAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Run sr2.exe with -setup command line argument and tick Sync to refresh
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Causes incorrect functioning of the "devour souls" button and other glitches such as brief teleport (especially during combats) and certain corrupted sections of the game. Use Soul Fixer to prevent these issues.

Extra setup dialog options

Not needed when using Soul Fixer.
Add a DWORD value
  1. Press Win+R.
  2. Type regedit and press Enter.
  3. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Crystal Dynamics\Soul Reaver 2\1.00.000.
  4. Create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value and rename it to ExtendedDialog.
  5. Change its value data from 0 to 1.

Widescreen resolution

Not needed when using Soul Fixer.
Widescreen fix[4]
  1. Download Widescreen fix by nemesis2000.
  2. Extract sr2.7z files to the installation folder.
  3. Run upx.bat for the GOG.com version.
  4. Edit sr2.ini to set the resolution.

Notes

Password: sr2
Supported exe size: 1 609 728 bytes

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail and GOG only
German
Retail and GOG only. Patch for other digital releases here.
Italian
Retail only. Download.
Brazilian Portuguese
Translation
Russian
Retail only. Fargus (updated in 2023) and Fargus + 7Wolf.
Spanish
Retail only. Download.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
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

Crashes and freezes on multi-core CPUs

Use Soul Fixer
Force CPU affinity to one core[5]

VSync does not work on Windows 10

Use Soul Fixer

Uncapped frame rate issue

Use Soul Fixer, turn off Fullscreen VSync in the game options, and set Frame Rate to 60 or 120 FPS.
Enable VSync and set the refresh rate to 60Hz
Limit the frame rate to 60 FPS[6]

Purplish screen

All versions

Switch from 16-bit to 32-bit color depth in the graphics options

Version 1.0 only

Modify DWORD value
  1. Press Win+R.
  2. Type regedit and press Enter.
  3. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Crystal Dynamics\Soul Reaver 2\1.00.000.
  4. Open DisableVShader and change its value data from 0 to 1.
  5. Click OK.

Note:

The vertex shader issue causing a purplish screen was resolved with game version 1.0.2.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8 Use Soul Fixer for Direct3D9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

SR2 Enhancer

Adds a set of optional features for improving the gameplay, such as skipping cinematics, save at any location, and more.
By express request of the mod 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:
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System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 450 MHz
AMD K6-III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 850 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] 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.[3]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/224940/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (224940) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References