Chaos Legion

Chaos Legion

Developers
	Capcom
Windows	MiCROViSiON
Release dates
Windows	November 14, 2003
Reception
Metacritic	37
IGDB	61
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Hack and slash
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Fantasy, Supernatural

Chaos Legion is a third-person fantasy hack and slash game developed and published by Capcom and ported by MiCROViSiON. It is loosely based on the light novel series of the same name by Tow Ubukata.

The game was originally released in Japan on March 6, 2003 for the PlayStation 2. The PC version is based on the later international versions, which features various difficulty and gameplay changes compared to the original Japanese release. The port was heavily criticized for the poorly implemented Disc check DRM used in earlier releases that rendered the game unplayable after installation, which prompted Capcom to recall copies of the game and re-release with the DRM issues addressed. Other issues with the PC port of the game also includes texture corruption issues on modern video cards and frequent crashes during loading screens on Windows 7 or later.

A patch was released for the game, however, the other issues with the game requires third-party fixes to be addressed.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Released on 2 CDs or 1 DVD in some regions.

Not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch v1.03 for the 2 CD-ROM releases.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\CL_UDCONF2.DAT <path-to-game>\CL_UDSYS.DAT <path-to-game>\config.txt

CL_UDCONF2.DAT stores keyboard and controller configuration file. CL_UDSYS.DAT is the game's system settings. config.txt contains rendering settings.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\CL_UD##.DAT

CL_UD00.DAT-CL_UD05.DAT are the six save slots, and they are also tied to CL_UDSYS.DAT.

Video

Graphics settings.

Screen settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		4:3 resolutions only with the exception of 1280x1024.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		See Increase rendering resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Although Borderless Gaming works with the game, but it will stretch the image. Mouse cursor also functions oddly in menus and stays on screen during gameplay.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Can be forced from GPU's control panel or through dgVoodoo 2.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Forced traditional anti-aliasing methods such as MSAA can cause some visual glitches with shadows.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Capped at 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Increase rendering resolution

The low resolution depth of field (Focus Blur) effects can be worked around by running the game in a lower resolution from the in-game options while forcing a higher internal resolution with dgVoodoo 2.

Use dgVoodoo 2

Download the latest stable release of dgVoodoo 2, then extract the contents of dgVoodoo2_*.zip to its own folder in a convenient location on the computer (e.g. Documents). Run the dgVoodooCpl.exe, then configure the following settings from the General tab: Adapter(s) to use/enable: <your video card> Scaling mode: Stretched, 4:3 Aspect Ratio Miscellaneous: Check Keep window aspect ratio and Capture mouse Now go to the DirectX tab and configure the following settings: Videocard: dgVoodoo 3D Accelerated Card Filtering: App driven or Force anisotropic (2x-16x) Resolution: Unforced (uses the game's default resolution options) or Max (use the system's highest native resolution) Behavior: Check Disable Alt+↵ Enter to toggle screen state (does nothing for the game regardless) Antialiasing (MSAA): Off (forcing traditional anti-aliasing methods causes glitches with shadows) Miscellaneous: Uncheck dgVoodoo Watermark and Force vSync (the game already uses Vsync by default) Click Apply and dgVoodoo 2 should save the configuration file to where you have it installed by default, then copy the dgVoodoo.conf to <path-to-game>. Alternatively, click the Add button and point the program to where you have the game installed to save it there. Go into the MS/x86 folder from your dgVoodoo 2 installation folder, then copy the D3D8.dll, D3DImm.dll, and DDraw.dll files into <path-to-game>. Launch the game. It should now render in a higher resolution.

Input

Control settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Two alternate camera controls on keyboard, however, player movement and pause menu keys cannot be remapped. Key bindings resets after changing the Button Type configuration.
Mouse acceleration		Mouse is not used in-game.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		DirectInput and partial XInput support.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Two alternate camera controls with controller, however, player movement and camera controls on Gamepad 2 cannot be remapped. Controller mappings resets after changing Button Type configuration.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		Incorrect camera controls with XInput controllers. See Controller support for a workaround.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers		Through DirectInput.
DualShock button prompts
Light bar support
Connection modes	V2, Wired, Bluetooth, V1

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts		Game only references keyboard inputs.

Additional information
Controller hotplugging		Requires switching the Button Type to Gamepad.
Haptic feedback		Missing vibration support from the PlayStation 2 version.
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Gameplay controls only accepts input from one selected device via the Button Type setting.

Controller support

Right stick camera controls are incorrectly mapped to the analog triggers, which cannot be re-configured in-game without a workaround.

Use XInput Plus

Download and run XInput Plus. Set Target Program to ChaosLegion.exe. Go to the Key Assign tab and assign the following: Left Stick: Check Mutliple Key, then assign it to Left Stick and DPAD. DPAD: Assign it to None to unbind the camera controls set by game and avoid conflicts. A Button: X. This is to allow the A button to skip cutscenes instead of X. X Button: A. Go to the DirectInput tab, then check Enable DirectInput Output, then assign the following controls under the Key Assign section in the Basic sub-tab: Right Stick: Z Axis/Z Rot LT/RT: Button 11/12 Guide: Button 13 Go to the Setting tab and go to its Dll Files sub-tab, and check XInput1_1.dll and XInput1_3.dll files. Then go to the Others sub-tab and uncheck Enable Init Beep to disable XInput Plus' confirmation beep sound. Click Apply to save settings and install the *.dll files into the game's installation folder. You should be able to control the camera with the right stick and use analog triggers.

Control layout

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  Keyboard 1

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  Keyboard 2

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  Gamepad 1

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  Gamepad 2

Audio

Audio settings.

Subtitle settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		SE, Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese				Lacks dual-audio support (i.e. cannot be played with Japanese voices and English subtitles) as it does not include the unlockable Japanese audio track option from the PlayStation 2 version and vice-versa.
Korean
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Texture Corruption

The game displays texture corruption on modern systems, causing textures to appear warped, shifted and completely out of place (e.g. trees being plastered with a window or wall texture). It has something to do with the game improper manipulation of non-power of 2 textures as explained in this thread.

Use dege's modified executable

Crashes

The PC version of Chaos Legion does not support hyperthreading and is prone to frequent crashes during loading screens.

Force single core affinity
Patching the game's executable with ImageCFG to run on CPU 1 is recommended as a permanent solution.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1
Shader Model support	1.4

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, 2000, ME, XP	XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 1 GHz	Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.2 GB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	128 MB of VRAM