I recently bought Saints Row: The Third for like $10. The problem is, the framerate drops from 50-60 indoors to 30 outside and an awful 10-15 while driving. This is on a pretty powerful gaming laptop I bought about six months ago. Changing the graphics settings from maximum (what the game recommended) to even the lowest didn't do anything.
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. People are still posting in it, too. It seems that SR3 has issues with a lot of AMD graphics cards (which my laptop has) and a few Nvidia cards. A Volition employee eventually responded saying that they were working on a fix for it with AMD. Close to two years later and that fix still hasn't been released.
The funniest part is that AMD is advertised when you start the game up. Driving in SR3 is a large part of the game so having to do it at 10-15 frames makes it sort of unplayable. Reading through some of the thread I mentioned made me feel really bad for people who paid full price for the game. Heck, I felt cheated paying $10 for something I only got 30 minutes out of. Most modern very high-end PC's have some issues running Metro 2033 at max.
Regardless, your machine shouldn't be having issues running this game. Are you certain that your drivers are up to date? Also, many gaming laptops use the integrated graphics until you start a game, and sometimes it doesn't switch to the graphics card. Make sure it's using the 7970M and not the onboard chip.
I'm on my laptop and not my PC so I can't check SR3's options menu, but can you try turning the graphics quality to High, NOT Ultra, and turn shadows off. See what happens. It's just a guess, by the way. I'm also looking around the internet and thinking that maybe this Enduro thing is, or was, an issue. It's a graphics-switching technology for laptops that use AMD cards, from what I understand. EDIT: Apparently Enduro has caused issues for people in the past. Games wouldn't utilize the entire GPU, only about half of it, and it isn't something you can easily disable.
I don't know if it's still an issue but you might want to look into it further. : I said my laptop runs Metro 2033 perfectly at max settings. Not sure I get your first sentence. It was just a reference to what types of games I can run maxed out compared to SR3. If a lot of high-end rigs have trouble running it then maybe I'm lucky? I mean, I booted it up just a few days ago and it ran/looked pretty dang good.
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Yeah I've tried all your suggestions. Every game I play I'll start up, then exit immediately so I can switch to the high-performance setting. You can tell when the 7970 is the one being used because it sounds like a jet engine. I updated drivers, rolled them back.
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I messed with every setting combination. My graphics switcher is called AMD Catalyst Control Center.
Not sure if that's Enduro or not. I guess the main point of my post is that Volition released a game that's sort of broken for quite a number of people, acknowledged the issue, promised a patch that would fix it, then never released it. When I last checked the thread at Volition, it had reached a couple hundred pages and new posts had been made within a couple of days still hoping a patch would be released. I have similar issues. It's the first game that's been causing noticeable issues for me. Now, I don't have a recent PC, but typically I can play games on medium to high with little to no framerate issues. Bioshock Infinite was fine, Tomb Raider handled decently in most areas and even Sleeping Dogs runs better on high graphic settings than Saints Row does for me on the lowest settings.
I have no idea why but it's seriously making me consider buying the Saints Row IV for the 360 instead of getting it for PC like I usually do (not in a position to upgrade my PC at this time). EDIT: Apparently Enduro has caused issues for people in the past. Games wouldn't utilize the entire GPU, only about half of it, and it isn't something you can easily disable. I don't know if it's still an issue but you might want to look into it further. If it's not easily disabled then I'm not going to bother. Download camfrog pro terbaru untuk pc. I'll try playing the game on my PC which shouldn't even hold a candle to my laptop.
It has a fairly old Nvidia card but it might work if I play on medium or low. Thanks for the help, though!
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KoreaBeat: I just installed both SR2 and SR3 and, while I certainly don't have the greatest video card around, it is ridiculous that SR3 runs noticeably more smoothly. SR2 has jerky framerate that is especially noticeable when driving, and most especially when driving a police car. I already installed the Gentlemen of the Row mod but it didn't seem to help - I would really appreciate any suggestions!
Windows 7 x64 Core i7-3770 Geforce GT 620 12GB RAM I have this post bookmarked, but I haven't tried the fixes listed myself. Turn Dynamic Lighting to Simple or to Off. Setting it to Simple or to Off will cause some outdoor areas (during the day) and most interiors to be overly bright and glow-y (including in some cutscenes) but it eliminates lag and improves overall responsiveness. For whatever reason Dynamic Lighting seems to consume more performance alone than all the other settings combined, with Dynamic Lighting set to Simple or set to Off you should be able to crank all the other settings up with ease.
Download and install the Saints Row 2 Powertools. Installing is easy, just a simple copy/paste, run the installer and then you just tweak a setting called Speed via its text file. This is necessary because the game by default runs in sort of fast forward (it's still set to use the Xbox 360's processor), which of course affects everything including oversensitivity of vehicles, the Saints Row 2 Powertools adjusts the actual game/engine speed. I have my Speed set to.90 and cars handle fairly well though they're still somewhat jerky at lower speeds.
Try setting your video cards Texture Filtering Quality to Performance. Set Anti-Aliasing Method to Multisampling. Try disabling Anti-Aliasing in game. Make sure Vsync is enabled. From Idol Ninja's handy dandy FAQ guide: Power Tools is not needed if you run Windows 8 and is only for Windows 7/Vista if your CPU is not clocked at 3.2ghz. 'Is there anything I can do to fix the stuttering and lagging while driving? The biggest issue with the PC port of Saints Row 2 is how the engine streams data from the hard drive into memory and how it prefetches (or more correctly, doesn't.) The prefetching is the thing that tends to throw everyone because it can adversely affect people with optimal hardware that should be able to run the game well.
So, you start seeing wild rumors flying around from everyone on what hardware can and can't run it well, as if it's a crapshoot. It's not, and I'll get to some ways to fix that lag in after I go over basic hardware requirements. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS These are some minimum requirements to get 30fps with 1920x1200 and most everything maxed with some dips to maybe 25fps during really fast driving: Core 2 Duo 3Ghz ATI 4850 w/512 video memory 3GB RAM with Windows 7 (4GB RAM under Vista) 7200rpm hard drive with. Geeez and peoples complaining about SR3 and 4 bad performance. Reading this its like one of those 'stand on your head, jump 3 times, doa 180 backflip and hit the 3rd button to to right' type deal to run it. I was going to attempt to play it and it kept crashing.so had to set desktop res super low to get it to launch and reset it to 1200p (had to do it with a few older games in the past that auto-launches at lowest res).
But then it's like capped out at 25-30 fps. Sure i could prob fix it but the gameplay's not that appealing to me. Have to say though, if anybody that's complaining about SR3 or 4 performance issues.they should just try to play this game. Originally posted by Stymie™:I understand that the PC port was very bad, so I installed the Gent. Of the Row mods and fixed most of the bugs.
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The only problem I have is I always kept on having very low fps (10-25 fps) and it's near unplayable for me. Anyone have any ideas how to fix it? I installed powertool but did not improve the fps much. I have a pretty decent 2010 gaming computer and it should run a lot higher fps than what I have experienced. Turn off ingame effects (dynamic lightning etc.) and activate these options in sweetfx.
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You will get better lightning and it no more stutter.