I had no problems with the Saints Row 3 port on PC. Might've been a little slow perhaps, but nothing obnoxiously bad.
You guys both ATI users? Maybe there was a problem with those cards?
Pretty sure it was that, although a number of team green users had issues too (though not as many as ATI). Some were fixed by updating their mobo BIOS, but they were on AMD chipsets as well as GPUs. No such luck for me, so as it stands there's a several thousand-post thread under "PC Issues" on their forum that hasn't had a CM contribution for over a year.
They're definitely right up there with Codemasters for having some of the worst practices a dev could have (that I've experienced... obviously I'm not counting Maxis or Gearbox).
ATI check, and yes it is (most probably) an ATI issue. There is a large thread about it on the official forum, and the devs were updating it for a while saying "they're working on it" but have been silent for a while about it. Funnily, some of the their updates about them working on it coincided with Steam sales.../conspiracy.
Silent for a while? It's been over a year since they've updated (and that last update was "we're working on it"). It only really pisses me off because they said they had problems with their SR2 port so they were going to handle SR3 in-house and fix all the problems themselves.
Regardless of whether SR4 uses the same engine as SR3 or not, I've already started voicing my opinion in SR4 threads about the lack of support for it. I guess there's a possibility that they work with AMD on a GPU/driver profile for SR4 and it works with SR3, but they've burned their bridges.
I actually had a bit to say on SR4 in another forum, which is worth posting here to save me repeating myself:
Deef said:
But yeah, throw whatever they can think of into the same game, probably very little change in its actual style or direction.
And then take it out again when they realise they can sell it later on as DLC!
I had respect for Volition around the time of SR2 and RF:Guerrilla, but they said something about how much support they'll give SR3 with the in-house port (which was non-existent... two patches and still shitty performance with certain configs) and the BOHICA-attitude of shitty DLC and the season pass (which I never bought, but heard woeful things about).
Fuck 'em. Hope GTA5 flogs the shit out of it.
PS. I love the random generosity of GAFfers. Someone from F1GAF scored XCOM with their Bioshock preorder and I was the only one on their friends list that had it wishlisted. So that worked out awfully well
PPS. In G-Town, REALLY strong smell of rain. It's almost pungent it's that strong.
