I bought Saints Row 2 for the PC, and I am glad I got it at a reduced price because it is by far the shoddiest piece of software I have bought in recent memory. I never like to judge a company by one product, but this is so bad that I have to make an exception.
A lot of people complained about GTA IV for the PC. That is demanding but with a moderate PC it is playable at medium graphics settings with a bit of slowdown at times, and with low settings it runs well.
Saints Row 2 on the other hand is unplayable, even at 640x480 with all settings on minimum. GTA IV on lowest settings looks better than SR2 on high, and still runs better.
To be fair to Rockstar, they have released many patches for GTA IV, the most recent one being over a year after the game was released. SR2, has had one patch that didn't fix any of the performance issues and not a peep since.
Does this game work well for anybody? My system is as follows:
- AMD Athlon X2 running at 3.0GHz
- 3GB RAM
- nVidia GeForce 8800GT 512MB
- Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
- Windows 7 32-bit
It's not a fast system by any means these days, but it is well in excess of the minimum requirements and only just below the recommended requirements for CPU (and exceeding them for everything else).
I think this is one game that will sit on the shelf until my next PC upgrade. But even then I'm questioning whether I'll actually be able to play it!


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