legancy of kain soul reaver can be played on windows xp?

Well...you can play Soul Reaver in Windows XP...sorta. On my machine, if I use "Windows 2000 compatability mode" with the version 1.2 patch the game will run.

However, the sound catches and the different zones load into memory slowly so occasionally you have to pause and wait for them to load (you'll see a black screen in the path before you when this happens). If you don't pause and run into the blackness, the game crashes. Speaking of crashes, try fighing Dumah while trying to wait for zones to load into memory. *sigh* Crash, crash, crash. Personally, I wouldn't bother trying Soul Reaver in XP due to instabilities in the code. Soul Reaver loves to get you into a boss fight and crash.

If anyone knows of a way to minimize crashing, please let me know.

K, I found a site that helps with this...
first go to the UK Soul Reaver site: http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/support/patchinfo.html?ptid=35
(run the file)

then, go to this LoK Soul Reaver Site, which has the file to update the 1.2 and instructions on how to make it xp compatible. http://www.thelostworlds.net/SR1-XP.HTML

yup thats it. read the readme and it tells you exactly how to do it.

I used all the things tat where written there and MY soul Reaver v stops, I see the error Message. I go to the crash err txt and I see:

The Kain2 Exception Handler has yet another bug to report:
Unable to open mapfile.

EXCEPTION ACCESS VIOLATION
Crash address: 10002d51
Stack: (at 23:12f890)
00000001 0012f8cf 004f44b4 0000000c
0047db1e 00000000 00000000 00000400
00000300 00000002 00200000 00000000
705c3a4a 6f6c6275 722e6f67 7c006c70
7c8024b7 0000020c 00000000 0012f908
73ea1e55 0000020c 73ea2872 00000000
00000000 7c90e2f1 7c8024b7 0000020c
00000000 0012f948 73ea1e55 00000000










The Kain2 Exception Handler has yet another bug to report:
Mapfile found. Trying to find function names.
WARNING: Static functions will be misinterpreted as other functions!

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash address: 10002d51
Stack: (at 23:12f890)
00000001 0012f8cf 004f44b4 0000000c
47db1e (_menu_push)
00000000 00000000 00000400 00000300
00000002 00200000 00000000 705c3a4a
6f6c6275 722e6f67 7c006c70 7c8024b7
0000020c 00000000 0012f908 73ea1e55
0000020c 73ea2872 00000000 00000000
7c90e2f1 7c8024b7 0000020c 00000000
0012f948 73ea1e55 00000000









The Kain2 Exception Handler has yet another bug to report:
Mapfile found. Trying to find function names.
WARNING: Static functions will be misinterpreted as other functions!

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash address: 10002d51
Stack: (at 23:13f890)
00000001 0013f8cf 004f44b4 0000000c
47db1e (_menu_push)
00000000 00000000 00000400 00000300
00000002 00200000 00000000 705c3a4a
6f6c6275 722e6f67 7c006c70 7c8024b7
00000240 00000000 0013f908 73ea1e55
00000240 73ea2872 00000000 00000000
7c90e2f1 7c8024b7 00000240 00000000
0013f948 73ea1e55 00000000








The Kain2 Exception Handler has yet another bug to report:
Mapfile found. Trying to find function names.
WARNING: Static functions will be misinterpreted as other functions!

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash address: 10002d51
Stack: (at 23:13f890)
00000001 0013f8cf 004f44b4 0000000c
47db1e (_menu_push)
00000000 00000000 00000400 00000300
00000002 00200000 00000000 705c3a4a
6f6c6275 722e6f67 7c006c70 7c8024b7
00000240 00000000 0013f908 73ea1e55
00000240 73ea2872 00000000 00000000
7c90e2f1 7c8024b7 00000240 00000000
0013f948 73ea1e55 00000000


What is it?

I get the same error message. Is it due to the latest Nvidia video drivers?

Do you guys have the patch installed? If so, when you installed the patch, it may not have overwritten the kain2.map file as a result of the file being set as read-only (pretty common). This could mean that your game is trying to run the new patch without its most vital components.

Check in "C:\Program Files\Eidos Interactive\Soul Reaver", right click the kain2.map file, select "Properties" and verify that the "Read-only" check box is not selected. If it is, deselect it, click okay or apply, and reinstall the patch.

I hope this is in some way helpful.