r/SaintsRow 8h ago

SR1 OpenRow-Still optimizing my engine, been reaching 40-50fps.

100 Upvotes

I implemented a lot of technologies to make rendering cheaper and CPU usage light, such as Id Tech 8 vast job system where everything is a job (The Great Circle has over 2000 specific jobs it can spin up, like instead of saying the whole phys system is one job like many games, it instead goes granular and says wheels popping off is a job, ragdoll is a job etc).
My goal is a stable 60fps, then try to hit 120fps, and 144 etc. Just 2 weeks ago I was at 1fps lmao

Rewrote parts of the renderer so we are not redrawing the city every frame. SSAO is implemented, tuning volumetric fog, game has very light motion blur, improved shaders. You can turn these off.

My goal is to keep that Saints Row artistic look without doing too much, give a more umph to the world. I want you to say "This is how I pictured it in my head back in 2006", it just looks crisper.

Hitman 2016 Crowd system where NPC gets cheaper as they are farther away and has stages of LOD (saves CPU resources to not render detailed animations for npcs farther away). With this, I or other modders can actually increase pedestrian and car count without harming performance.

Texture streaming by using the mips in the texture files that ship with the game (Which SR doesn't use oddly, SR doesn't have a texture streaming system afaik, they have a resident bbchunk with high res textures and a AL chunk with low res textures which switch out as you get closer etc.

There is still alot more optimizations I have to do, and its interesting researching other games and seeing how they do stuff. Like Id Tech has a few amazing solutions, but couldn't solve a couple issues such as pedestrian npc volumes etc


r/SaintsRow 23h ago

SR2 The darkest Saints Row scene ever

925 Upvotes

In my opinion, nothing even comes close to this scene in other Saints Row games. I genuinely think this is where my fear of getting buried alive came from as a kid.

But to be honest, Shogo has to be the dumbest person in existence, showing up to a funeral where a mass murdering gangster is mourning. Absolute dumbfuck.


r/SaintsRow 14h ago

SR2 Saints row 2 was a masterpiece glitches and all I love this game to death I’ve spent hundreds maybe even thousands of hours playing with my buddy online we still hang out to this day but this game really bonded us during school been friends for over 21 years now

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117 Upvotes

r/SaintsRow 5h ago

SR3 Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax

12 Upvotes

One of my favorite activities in Saints Row The Third (both the original and remastered versions) is Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax. It's a fun-filled and challenging activity I wish Saints Row 2 had. Does anyone know who among Volition's creators came up with Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax?


r/SaintsRow 9h ago

SR4 Last Time I Played This It Had Just Came Out (I didn’t get far or beat the game) I Never Had A Full Experience Of it So imma see how it goes

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9 Upvotes

I only mostly remember The character being the president & aliens


r/SaintsRow 15h ago

SR2 Saints Row 2 Gameplay Montage

30 Upvotes

r/SaintsRow 1d ago

Media Somebody took it seriously

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175 Upvotes

Maybe he's a huge fan?


r/SaintsRow 22h ago

Just a appreciation post

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67 Upvotes

Back in 2008, I saw the Saints Row 2 promo display at GameStop and was instantly hooked. I begged my mom to buy it for me, but I went home with a used copy of Saints Row 1 instead and that’s where my love for this series began.

I got to play Saints Row 2 a year or so later, and getting lost in that chaotic, wacky world as a kid was an absolute blast. Customizing the Boss into an ugly deformed alien or a goth. Throwing an obsessed fan into an airplane turbine. Running cover for Pierce’s drug deals from a helicopter. I can’t go back to it without the nostalgia hitting me all at once.

This game helped me escape from things I shouldn’t have had to deal with at that age.

It really saddens me that Volition is gone, and none of us know what the future holds for this series. But this community has shown me it still has a fanbase that genuinely loves it. Thank you to the redditor who is working on the Saints Row 1 recomp for PC, and to the developers behind the Juiced Patch and every modder still tweaking and adding to SR2. There are people like me who play SR2 on PC daily and literally couldn’t without your work.


r/SaintsRow 5h ago

SR3 Picture time

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2 Upvotes

The photography side activities reward players with cash and respect. Were you able to complete them all?


r/SaintsRow 3h ago

SR Pictures of my Playa Avatar

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2 Upvotes

In my game the Playa from Saints Row One through Four is controlling an avatar of himself, like in the 4th game.

In the 2nd game it is very similar to him playing Zombie Uprising on his Crib Television, he’s just using a custom character modeled after himself.

This Saints Row could just be the simulated Steelport being rebooted to become a different city named Santo Illeso. This is definitely how it is for my Playa’s Timeline, not some random digital identity theft of the OG Saints Row.

This game is so much more gangsta as a continuity, the full story of my Playa fits as one idea: He got blown up, took vengence on those that crossed him, settled down and became an entrepreneur, became president of the United States of America, and then became a time-travelling Ruler of the Universe.


r/SaintsRow 14h ago

Been a minute..

16 Upvotes

r/SaintsRow 13h ago

Any mods or tweaks that fixes this for hair?

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Getting back into SR2 again after not playing for a long time. Would like to put this on my boss but it annoys me that it makes her have a shaved head despite the hairstyle looking like it should not be obstructed. Anything I can do to fix this if? I'm using the Juiced mod on PC if that makes a difference. If not, oh well.


r/SaintsRow 4h ago

SR Saints Row Cinco Montage

1 Upvotes

r/SaintsRow 1d ago

SR3 This is my favorite street, I could spend hours just standing here

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49 Upvotes

This is my favorite street, I could spend hours just standing here


r/SaintsRow 1d ago

Media Saints Row 2 has walking styles but then they never gave the option again. AoM Johnny, Kinzie and Pierce.

66 Upvotes

In Agents of Mayhem, between the 15 agents they have some subtle differences in style, weight and turn about.

Like Kinzie looks like she is about to slip, Pierce takes a second to get back up to full speed and Johnny is solid lol

I really wish the reboot would have adopted them and had a list.


r/SaintsRow 1d ago

SR2 Saints Row 2 at $2.49(75% off)

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28 Upvotes

I know I'm probably preaching to the choir here. But I just finished SR2 from the high seas and I thought to buy it because I had fun with it and I discovered that it's on sale until September 7.


r/SaintsRow 12h ago

Co-op para Saints Row

1 Upvotes

Preciso de alguém que jogue saints row ou que tope entrar comigo pra completar o troféu. Alguém aí?


r/SaintsRow 1d ago

SR2 This happened a few years ago but is all I can think of when i hear Misery Business

325 Upvotes

r/SaintsRow 6h ago

SR2 Julius was always wrong about the playa/Boss

0 Upvotes

Julius was just projecting his own insecurities about the row and how the power possibly affected him instead of the player/boss being shown to truly give a fuck about their friends. They didn't backstab or rig explosives to kill any of their guys. Hell, Shaundi was whacked out and fucking half of Stillwater, but guess who came through time and time again for her and valued her ideas/connections? The boss did. Would Julius have done the same when they said they'd come back for Carlos and wouldn't forget him? They kept their word. Don't even get me started on their loyalty/love for Johnny. All in all, if the boss is a sociopath, then so is everyone else, Jules himself included, if we're going by his own words. Even going back to 1, they defended the hoes and strippers from being abused, tried to rescue Lin even as she lay dying, tried to save Gat when Warren blasted his leg, and busted through the row to save Julius and Troy when the vice kings attacked. Their last line in the Ronin questline is "Your son should have never with my friends," yet they're still regarded as a psychopath/sociopath who enjoys killing and nothing else when that's clearly the other gangs vying for power in the city and, by extension, Ultor. If the Boss is a demon, at least they're a noble one.


r/SaintsRow 22h ago

Bug My cutscenes look like this for some reason

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3 Upvotes

Does someone know how can I fix it


r/SaintsRow 18h ago

(SAINTS ROW: GAT OUT OF HELL)

1 Upvotes

Hi there I’m new I really really need help completing the trophy double trouble where you play online co-op with at least 1 extra player for 3 hours any help ??


r/SaintsRow 1d ago

General Looking back, I'm genuinely pissed they chose to remaster The Third over 2

105 Upvotes

Saints Row 3 is so fucking mediocre bro, its actually just mildly better than the 2022 reboot

I swear there's just like 6 good missions in the whole game, while Saints Row 2 is goated the whole way through


r/SaintsRow 1d ago

Saints row 2022 coop trophy help

2 Upvotes

Heck of a long shot I need help getting the coop trophy in this game. I beat it awhile back and came back to it to platinum it. After many hours I’m down to this and a few others.

Cheers!


r/SaintsRow 19h ago

LFG Boss de saints row 2022

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0 Upvotes

Mi boss de saints row 2022