Soulbringer

General information

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 3 DRM.
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam
ZOOM Platform
Amazon.com (unavailable)

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

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

Peixoto's patch

Peixoto's patch not only gets the game running on Windows 10, but also allows high resolution without shrinking the HUD\menus and Super sampling anti-aliasing. At the moment only the retail version is supported.

Unofficial patches

Better DirectX Compatibility Patch

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\soul.opt^{[Note 1]} %APPDATA%\GOG\SoulBringer\LauncherConfig.ini
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-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)	<Steam-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

General settings.

Video settings.

Advanced settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Widescreen resolutions are selectable but the image is stretched from 4:3. The GOG.com version is pillarboxed.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)	On by default.
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Sound FX, Speech.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		Set in Advanced options.

Localizations

The Steam version includes all languages but the language switcher does not work; see Can't change language (Steam) to change manually.

The German version is cut (no blood effects), which is also true for digital versions when switching their language to German.^[2]

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Russian				Unofficial translation by «7Wolf»
Spanish

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^[3]
Edit `<path-to-game>\data\lang.dat` Change `english e` to `french f`, `spanish s`, `german g`, `dutch d`, or `italian i` Save your changes and close the file. Go to `<path-to-game>\data\wavs\vo\english` 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)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	500 MB
Video card (GPU)	8 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0 compatible	16 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^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).
↑ ^2.0 ^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>/283310/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (283310) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Text Issues?, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
↑ gog.com - last accessed on May 2023
↑ Setting language problem :: Soulbringer General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023

[gamedir-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).

[Proton_path_note-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>/283310/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (283310) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[3] Text Issues?, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023

[4] .com - last accessed on May 2023

[5] Setting language problem :: Soulbringer General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

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Developers

	Gremlin Interactive
Publishers
Europe	Infogrames
North America	Interplay Entertainment
GOG.com (original)	Blue Moon Red Owl
Steam (original)	KISS ltd
Digital (current)	Funbox Media
Release dates
Windows	July 10, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase