Make sure it's using the 7970M and not the onboard chip. For whatever reason.Īlso, many gaming laptops use the integrated graphics until you start a game, and sometimes it doesn't switch to the graphics card. But it eliminates lag and improves overall responsiveness. I think what would be best is if the same folks who ported SR2 to PC would fix it up and redeliver it to us DRM-free. General discussion Improve Saints Row 2 performance? (14 posts) (14 posts) (14 posts) Pages: 1. Are you certain that your drivers are up to date?Ī new patch for the PC version of Saints Row 2 has been released by developer Volition, fixing crash bugs and replacing the original 32 FPS. Regardless, your machine shouldn't be having issues running this game. Most modern very high-end PC's have some issues running Metro 2033 at max. Heck, I felt cheated paying $10 for something I only got 30 minutes out of. Reading through some of the thread I mentioned made me feel really bad for people who paid full price for the game. EDIT: 2 MINS LATER: I couldn't resist and I started it up.

It is an unofficial fix that was used to get the game running properly before BIOS updates. Also make sure the game is patched to the latest version. Saint's Row III has some issues with AMD's FX CPUs under some older BIOS revisions. ★ How to run/play/lag fix Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag. Driving in SR3 is a large part of the game so having to do it at 10-15 frames makes it sort of unplayable. The funniest part is that AMD is advertised when you start the game up. Close to two years later and that fix still hasn't been released. It seems that SR3 has issues with a lot of AMD graphics cards (which my laptop has) and a few Nvidia cards.Ī Volition employee eventually responded saying that they were working on a fix for it with AMD. I did a little looking around and found that there's a massive thread on the Volition boards that started right after the game's launch with people who all have the same problem. Changing the graphics settings from maximum (what the game recommended) to even the lowest didn't do anything.

This is on a pretty powerful gaming laptop I bought about six months ago. The problem is, the framerate drops from 50-60 indoors to 30 outside and an awful 10-15 while driving.

I recently bought Saints Row: The Third for like $10.

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