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General discussion (archive)Saints Row 3 LAG - Anyone got a solution?(24 posts)solved(24 posts)solved
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Posted February 02, 2013
So I was lucky enough to win SR3 on MoonGoddess' giveaway, sadly the game suddenly lags like hell at random intervals of play - and also slows down the rest of my system to the point where opening task manager to kill it takes a good half minute at times.

Thing is, it's barely touching the sides of my ram and CPU - I can actually run it pretty high, but have dropped to mimimum settings in an effort to combat this freeze / lag / frame drop thingy.

I've googled it to hell and the only solution I can find is to update my BIOS.

Does anyone have any experience of this problem or a genuine way to deal with it?
This question / problem has been solved by Iainimage
Posted February 02, 2013
Are you playing with the Dx11 client or the Dx9 one?, If you're playing with Dx11, try Dx9.

My brother has the game and despite having a top of the line brand new PC, he's pretty much forced to use the Dx9 exe. The Dx11 exe is just laggy and crashy.
Post edited February 02, 2013 by KingOfDust
Posted February 02, 2013
Yeah - I initially switched to DX9 when the game wouldn't start, then moved to windowed mode before the game updated (yeah, thanks steam) and I've done all the usual checks / tweaks etc.
(should have put that in the OP).

it's areally weird though - less than half of my ram and about 1% of cpu is in use when the lags happen.
Posted February 02, 2013
Did you try what this has to offer?
Posted February 02, 2013
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Tychoxi:
Thanks for the reply - i did pretty much everything that applies to me / this problem. As i said its a WEIRD problem - im beginning to think theres some odd service going on in the background thats hogging the ram etc and slowing everything down
Posted February 02, 2013
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KingOfDust: My brother has the game and despite having a top of the line brand new PC, he's pretty much forced to use the Dx9 exe. The Dx11 exe is just laggy and crashy.
I have SR3 set to Ultra on DX11 and it runs at a pretty consistent 60fps at 1920x1080. That's on an i7-3770/GTX 660/16GB system.

Is this using an AMD card? I think I remember reading about other people having problems running it on AMD.
Post edited February 02, 2013 by movieman523
Posted February 02, 2013
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movieman523:
Yeah i've read into that, and Im not on AMD - i have an Intel 4000m - and ive also googled that (no specific results to this case).
I know its some "in-game" problem, but its beyond me as to what - some people have it, others dont - bit like the savegame corruption in DX HR.
Thing is, I like the game so far (dumb as it is in many ways - its funny and damn fun!), and this is kind of breaking it right now.

Thanks for your reply too!
Post edited February 02, 2013 by Sachys
Posted February 02, 2013
I ran into this with another game, and then finally realized the gpu fan was no longer working, thus causing an increase in temperature, so once it hit a certain number the lag would kick in, and everything else was slowed down as well.
Posted February 02, 2013
Thankfully mine is fine - and my system runs everything else fine too (my old system had that problem though - eventually sounded like a bad lawnmower!).
Posted February 02, 2013
I used to have a similar problem with my old PC. It was plenty powerful enough to play top of the line games at max settings, but it could barely run older games at 5 fps. I eventually learned it was an issue with my MotherBoard. Still not sure exactly what happened, but it got messed up somehow, possibly fried by a power surge. This might not help you, for me it messed up all games, not just one. Worth mentioning though.
Posted February 02, 2013
An Intel 4000? As in intregrated graphics? That chip isn't really designed with gaming in mind...
Posted February 03, 2013
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Bigs: An Intel 4000? As in intregrated graphics? That chip isn't really designed with gaming in mind...
I was surprised it ran but I found a video of SR3 on an HD4000 at low settings on Youtube and it looked OK. I'm not sure what a 4000m is, though; is that the mobile version?
Posted February 03, 2013
I know you might think I'm an Idiot for suggesting this but when was it you last did a full Hard drive defrag Sachys?

I do a full Hdd defrag with Defraggler from Piriform

http://www.piriform.com/defraggler
Posted February 03, 2013
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Huzzey5: .
Thanks, but my system is pretty new, and this is a unique problem with this game.
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Bigs: An Intel 4000? As in intregrated graphics? That chip isn't really designed with gaming in mind...
That's irrelevant. It plays equally demanding games on high settings without a problem. The problem is with the game - and it's not just me that suffers it.
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movieman523:
Yes, and it's actually pretty decent as those things go.
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fr33kSh0w2012:
Not the daftest input ive had. I defragged a day or two before installing and according to other posts ive found on this problem, the need to defrag is not the cause, but thanks!
Post edited February 03, 2013 by Sachys
Posted February 03, 2013
This could be something to do with power management holding the system back or something like the ASUS EPU Engine or Cool & Quiet side of things.

Try going into your control panel and look at Power Management and change it to high performance mode.

The ASUS EPU Engine is a little plane icon next to your clock, different board manufacturers do the similar kinds of things so look at what you have running. Sometimes on my system it goes funny and keeps the processor on a low power / carbon saving scheme which downclocks my CPU to around 800Mhz which is fine for just browsing and tinkering but no good for gaming.

You could also try putting the Saints Row 3 exe file into the DEP setting.

To do this go to Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings (Top Left, bottom of list)

Next Window should show advanced tab

Click settings beside the performance then next window click Data Execution Prevention tab.

Click turn on DEP for all programs above the window, then at the bottom browse to the Saints Row exe file (There will be 2) one for DX9 and one for DX11, add them both and then click Apply.

Games in Steam are in the Steam directory in common
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