Saints Row 2 is often considered as one of the worst PC ports ever released. However, that’s about to change. Volition has just announced at SR2’s 11th anniversary stream that it will release a new PC performance patch.
Volition stated that it has found the PC source code from the original outsourced port job for Saints Row 2. As such, the team will release a new patch that will address the game’s performance issues. Moreover, it will be adding Steamworks support and the console-only DLC.
While we don’t have an ETA on when this update will come out, we do know that it will be free for all existing Steam owners.
Saints Row 2 is an open-world game that offers expanded customization options, a totally transformed and expanded city of Stilwater, all new vehicles, sandbox tools and toys.
We’ll be sure to keep you posted about this PC performance patch for Saints Row 2!
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always loved violition….who else besides cdpr would do that.. wish they’d remake summoner
Which is ironic, considering it was CD Projekt that did the terrible PC port of Saints Row 2 (it wasn’t CD Projekt RED, but it was another team within CDP)
OH sh*t!!! right you are… forgot about that.. huh neato
this is true BUT…big but here…how much of that was THEIR choice?…these are the same peeps that had you running around the city smacking dudes with a 4 foot floppy dildo… agents of sh*t did suck, you are right..everybody can have a dud. its when you become a dud factory. for instance bioware??? dud factory everybody worth a damn left town
Fantastic news! This game is a masterpiece, but performance is beyond f**cked. Definetly the worst port ever. Glad they are working on fixing the game. Really look forward getting those DLC’s too.
This is great news because I love the game but mod tools would be appreciated also. Such a weird move.
3rd one was my favorite because I played it in co-op and it felt like they had refined their formula by that point. Too bad IV was such a letdown. The flying and super powers made every other vehicle pointless.
really? Everyone was like “even after all the dlc its not as big with as many things to do as 2”
3rd will always be my favorite as well.
they should seriously make another saints 3 game.
Saints Row 3 just removed much of the appeal of Saints Row 2. Saints Row 2 also had a decent balance between wacky and serious. Saints Row 3 just goes over the top wacky and remove all the seriousness the series had.
Not to mention removing the gang system by basically merging every gang into one and removing most of the activities of Saints Row 2 like Sceptic Avenger and the activities it had were mostly boring ones like going around with a tank destroying things. Saints Row 3 was an huge disappointment.
my biggest problem is the removal of the unique environments and minigames based on them also different shops with songs and clothes to buy
I had fun with SR2, but i loved every single minute of Saints Row The Third. Yeah, they removed things, but they added new ones. I personally like the improved side-missions, and quests. The ones from SR2 were boring and some pretty frustrating. Especially the plane quests. So glad they fixed the controls. How is destroying things with a tank boring? lol. It was so fun. I hated Sceptic avenger. But i do missed the fight club.
They really didn’t added anything to Saint Rows 3, they just took out. And yes, going around destroying with a tank is boring because it has been done to death in previous open world sandbox games. Destroying stuff with a tank has lost most of its appeal by this point, even back in 2011.
Saints Row 2 had a lot of creative side activities that were just removed for no reason in 3 and replaced them with boring activities that were present in previous sandbox games already.
Not to mention Saints Row 3 is ridicously short. Saints Row 2 has content for dozens of hours, 3 can barely reach over 20 hours. Anything after that and you are just squeezing whatever content remaining out of time.
I actually played 3 before 2 and thought 3 was a decent game. But then i tried 2 and finally realized why so many fans of 2 don’t like 3.
Professor Genki’s Super Ethical Reality Climax, Escort, Tiger Escort, Cyber Blazing, Apocalypse Genki, Sad Panda skyblazing, Sexy Kitten Yarngasm, Super Ethical PR Opportunity, what about these? What about all the activties improved from SR2? The ones from SR2 were as repetitive as the ones from The Third, only that those from 2 were actually very poorly made. They fixed most of them. And i’m glad they removed the racing, because the driving in that game is awful. And, no, sorry, but i really dissagree with that statement. Destroying things in a tank will always be fun. Killing people with $hit… not so much.
Only Crowd control, Demolition Derby, Fight Club, FUZZ, Racing, and Septic Avenger are removed. No big deal. Uh no, SR 3 added the majority of activities from SR2. So you indirectly calling them boring since they were added in SR2. Good job. Tell me, what other game had something similar with Sexy Kitten Yarngasm? Or Sad Panda skyblazing? How about how many games had the same racing activity? ALL of them. Any open world had them. And that is boring, especially with the bad controls.
Well, the main story is pretty short. Took me 40 hours to completly finish the game. Took me 54 hours to complete SR2. Only because my game crashed and 2 hours of progress went to hell. 3 can barely reach over 20? Yeah… of course. If you only play the main missions and side missions, and on casual. SR2 is longer only because each gang has different missions.
Excellent!
100% this ^^ , sure it is better than nothing but I totally agree.
While they are at it they should also bring the first one over as well to the PC all remastered, I still have the orginal disk for My 360.
wow thats a nice surprise
how about the dlc?
AWESOME…and i got the game for free when it was given freely.
Well, they might be able to remaster it, like Blizzard has done and is doing with Starcraft and Warcraft III. But remasters arent generally free. So, since this is free, I have no complaints. I think it’s a cool thing to get a patch on an 11 year old game. I go back and play old games quite a bit, depending.
Better now than never.
Okay, but I’m not going to praise you got taking this sodding long to find some mere source code.
Ease off on the douchiness. You do realize that between the porting of Saints Row 2 and now the company went through the collapse of THQ and a bunch of moves to different offices? It’s amazing it was found at all. It’s been a long time. People move on. Files and assets end up scattered. It’s not like everything’s kept in neat and tidy boxes.
No douchiness needed. I’m just not obligated to praise them for only just now finding source code, that should have been stored or archived somewhere, rather than being lost to time. Proper archiving is a must needed practice in the games industry, as well as accounting/banking and well, just about any business that deals with clients, customers, data and other businesses.
THQ was managed by greedy idiots who burned their company to the ground. The current company can’t be blamed for that. Former employees were left without jobs and some ended up not getting months and months of owed back pay. A lot of people got f*ked over. Do you really expect people in those conditions to waste time worrying about whether the source code was OK? Come on now.
The current company made that horrid spinoff Agents of mayhem, and even then, it’s heralded by thew reformed THQN, which at this time of writing, is dabbling in bad practices.
No, I expect people to store said data in a place that it’s not going to get lost for decades. That’s called common sense. Imagine if someone in the gov lost your data, you’d be right mad. Data is still data, no matter what it is, it’s important to others, maybe not you, but to others it is.
I’m not yielding from this mate.
Company releases patch to fix broken product 11 YEARS after its release; gets praise from community. Only in the era of stupidity.
praise? no
surprised in a good way? yes
gentleman of the row already fixed the problem, now we need the dlc.
They haven’t fixed anything. Still bad performance, still crashes, still buggy as hell.
weird i didnt have any issues with gentlemen of the row, they fixed alot of stuff.
Maybe they fixed bugs, but the performance is still crap. I swear, i never thought i’m going to play a game from 2009 with average graphics at 28, 35 fps.
Console games aren’t perfect.
“Free for all existing Steam owners”
It exists on GOG too, but f*k those losers am I right!
Had they been greedy they woulf havr remastered this instead of fixing it.
Just be glad it’s happening
or egs exclusive version with denuvo and always online?
Yes!!! excellent!!!
Yet Neir Automata hasn’t received a single patch on PC.
Because it’s a GARBAGE game, that’s why.
Since when are they a terrible company?
Screw remaster, game is fine as it is, just needs extra polish.