Saints Row 2 & Saints Row: The Third Finally Make Their Linux Debut

[Viesti]

I played SR2 on windows some time a go. I wonder if they fixed the original ports issues. Mainly, the games framerate was locked to your cpu speed. I had to downclock my cpu for the game to run properly. Otherwise it felt like playing in turbo mode. Downloading it right now to check the issue. Enjoyable game plotwise and such.

[tigerroast]

Love these 2 games. Insane, stupid fun.

Not much replayability after a while though.

[grenadecx]

I played SR2 on windows some time a go. I wonder if they fixed the original ports issues. Mainly, the games framerate was locked to your cpu speed. I had to downclock my cpu for the game to run properly. Otherwise it felt like playing in turbo mode. Downloading it right now to check the issue. Enjoyable game plotwise and such.

Never had that problem, however the SR2 suffers from tons of cutscenes bugs and other major mission bugs. Doubt that's fixed however.

[Viesti]

How can I fix Saints Row 2 running too fast at 1.5x speed?

IMPORTANT! Many players have reported that the speedup bug is now fixed with Windows 8, and Minimaul confirmed it as well on his test box! DO NOT USE POWERTOOLS OR CHEAT ENGINE IF YOU HAVE WINDOWS 8!

The speedup bug is something that is an inherent problem with Windows 7, though in rare cases it has been reported to happen on Vista. The speedup happens with CPUs that do not run at exactly 3.2Ghz frequency (the Xbox 360 cpu speed.) The further your cpu is away from 3.2Ghz (both higher and lower) the faster it will run.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1715922

Apparently this was my issue when playing the game. The original port was not of the greatest quality. Still, a great game. Has a great OMFG moment with monstertrucks. I also doubt that they actually fixed the framerate being tied to the clockspeed issue. Especially since it seems to have been a purely windows 7 issue.

[Guest]

Here's a quick video showing the performance of SR3 on a R9 380 with AMDGPU; both low and high settings: https://youtu.be/3TV5cKwxEic

[grenadecx]

Here's a quick video showing the performance of SR3 on a R9 380 with AMDGPU; both low and high settings: https://youtu.be/3TV5cKwxEic

Wow. That's even worse then I imagined it to be.

[Gapil301]

It may be due to compute shaders. I know the fourth does a fallback if you don't have compute shaders and runs like crap. One of the reasons I'm excited about compute shaders getting done.

Edit: The video uses a 7790 which is hardly a real GPU.

What? 7790 = 260x, it can run this game with max settings.

[Pontostroy]

It may be due to compute shaders. I know the fourth does a fallback if you don't have compute shaders and runs like crap. One of the reasons I'm excited about compute shaders getting done.

Edit: The video uses a 7790 which is hardly a real GPU.

I made this video with opengl 4.3 enabled (used my docker image http://www.gearsongallium.com/?p=3042). It just awful port.

[Kano]

Sometimes it is really funny to see slow OpenGL games with AMD logo ;-) I still see no reason to buy AMD hardware for Linux gaming - OpenGL 4.3 for OSS drivers does not magically improve speed. If you look at fglrx AMD could improve some games with app specific profiles, most likely shader replacements helped. Optimizing games needs time (and money) and usually Nvidia cards are much faster for eON based ports. If the game is not that demanding every card can run it, otherwise high single core speed and Nvidia GFX help (still slower than Windows in most cases).

[Pontostroy]

Saints Row 2 on radeonsi (gallium-nine vs "native" eON wrapper) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1ydLpKU3Wc