Played for over 30 hours and in my opinion in the top 5 of 2011. So good i wanted to play through the whole thing in coop with my friend who has a top spec PC the same as mine. Or at least similar. He has an ATI card! I never knew about the whole "yeah its unplayable at the moment because of extremely bad performance on ATI cards...drivers..overclocking.....". So not knowing this, I gifted my friend the game through Steam. EPIC FAIL.

For the record, I've heard that if a game has a somewhat known issue (like crashing/performing poorly on what should be an adequate ATI card), you can contact Steam support and get a refund, as long as you're pretty good at complaining and insisting you deserve a refund.

I have never had to do this myself, but I've heard people say that it's possible.

I played through it at constant 40+ FPS with a fairly dated ATI HD 5770.

@videoGaiden said:

EPIC FAIL.

Ughhhhhhh man.

@Rattle618 said:

I played through it at constant 40+ FPS with a fairly dated ATI HD 5770.

Similar situation here. It looked good and ran smooth on my Radeon HD 5670.

The framerate was pretty bad on my 6870. It was playable with everything set to the lowest possible settings, but somehow looked even worse than the 360 version. Glad I tried it before I bought it.

Huh. I played through on a HD6850 and had no issues whatsoever.

@videoGaiden said:

EPIC FAIL.

Never use that phrase again.

Why don't you just contact steam support instead of bitching on a forum? Seems like I'm always hearing about some game or another having problems with ATI cards.

Yeah fortunately it is not effecting everyone but unfortunately it still exists and is pretty widespread. The latest official response in the Saints Row The Third section of the Steam forums, under the thread "Bad peformance with ATI cards?" is

"V-Singular made this post over on the SaintsRow.com forums three days ago ..."

"I wanted to give everyone an update on what's been going on behind the scenes. Please note that you are not being ignored. If you were being ignored, we wouldn't have this troubleshooting section opened up to listen and find out the issues you're running into. Our team is continuing to work with AMD on a proper fix for this issue. Please take note that if it was something simple, we would've already added it to the game. This is why we've attempted a few other fixes already, some of which have shown small improvements in performance. We're actively looking into what needs to be done to fix this, and are currently waiting on some test results back from AMD themselves. I hope to have another update shortly with regard to that."

I played through it perfectly with crossfired 5770s, both overclocked. So either your friend is on outdated software or he has some other problem.

@TheGorilla said:

@videoGaiden said:

EPIC FAIL.

Never use that phrase again.

Why don't you just contact steam support instead of bitching on a forum? Seems like I'm always hearing about some game or another having problems with ATI cards.

Sometimes "Epic Fail" appears on Battlefield Bad Company 2's screen after dying. Usually when you've completely fucked up in a vehicle. Thought you ought to know.

For something a little more on topic, it seems like ATI cards just aren't the way to go. I hear about games having problems with them often.

@believer258: Yeah... unless something amazing happens in the next few months I'm selling my AMD setup for a Intel/Nvidia. I get so much bullshit issues with this fucking computer, though SR3 worked fine.

@videoGaiden: I played through it with no problems on Crossfire'd 6950s.

....granted, I play through every game with no problems with that much graphical horsepower, but there was nothing abormal about Saints Row.

Something else is up.

OK before this gets out of hand. I am annoyed at Volition Inc. NOT the graphics card manfacturers. ATI and NVIDIA have both served me well over the years.

My laptop's got a 6990M and it runs at solid 60 just fine. Skyrim was a little weird at launch but that was remedied by lowering shadow quality and after they patched it it's fine to bump shadow quality back up. Might be worth tweaking some graphics options.

@ryanrulez said:

Huh. I played through on a HD6850 and had issues whatsoever.

I think you forgot a very important word there? :)

It runs very well on my HD4870.

I'm on a HD 5870. Never had issues with the card. Must be because it was the gold standard of first generation DX11 cards. Still performs great for a 24'' 1080p display. Can even run BF3 with mostly 'Ultra' settings at about 30 FPS, though some maps max the VRAM when using Ultra textures which can cause issues.

Guess what I'm saying, ATI has yet to let me down.

@believer258 said:

@TheGorilla said:

@videoGaiden said:

EPIC FAIL.

Never use that phrase again.

Why don't you just contact steam support instead of bitching on a forum? Seems like I'm always hearing about some game or another having problems with ATI cards.

Sometimes "Epic Fail" appears on Battlefield Bad Company 2's screen after dying. Usually when you've completely fucked up in a vehicle. Thought you ought to know.

I know. I played a lot of BC2. The greatest horror of that game was that screen.

@videoGaiden: The game worked fine on my 6850 once I updated to the 12.1 preview drivers a couple of months ago. Tell your friend to update his drivers, any problems should be fixed.

@videoGaiden said:

EPIC FAIL.

I would like to imagine that you screamed epic fail at the top of your lungs as you typed it.

@videoGaiden said:

EPIC FAIL.

Can we just ban this guy for 24 hours to learn his lesson?

Game runs totally fine on my 6870. Just have it all patched up and latest drivers. I guess you can try your luck at getting a refund, but Steam reserves the right to deny it unless they feel you have a really legitimate reason.

@TechHits: What do mean brother? Is "epic fail" not teh hippest phrase on the streetz at teh moment?

I'm using a 6770m and getting 45+ fps. So it seems that it's fairly random?

Just bought it with the amazon special, I have an ATI and it runs smooth as hell. Sucks to be your friend.

@videoGaiden said:

Played for over 30 hours and in my opinion in the top 5 of 2011. So good i wanted to play through the whole thing in coop with my friend who has a top spec PC the same as mine. Or at least similar. He has an ATI card! I never knew about the whole "yeah its unplayable at the moment because of extremely bad performance on ATI cards...drivers..overclocking.....". So not knowing this, I gifted my friend the game through Steam. EPIC FAIL.

if your friend is using an FX card with the bulldozer architecture then thats what the problem is

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/STEAMGamesonAMDFXplatforms.aspx

games affected include Shogun 2, Saints row 3 and Deus ex.

@videoGaiden: I have ATI Radeon 5570 HD and runs just fine on my card.

EPIC FAIL.

I had all sorts of issues with the PC version to, have an ATI card myself. Was lucky in that I got a full refund (luckily bought from the shop as a sudden purchase, instead of buying it off Steam).

@videoGaiden said:

Yeah fortunately it is not effecting everyone but

Ugghhhhh

Sucks to be your friend, worked absolutely fine for me on my 6870.

@videoGaiden said:

EPIC FAIL.

I don't deserve a refund for saying this!

Bothering to even post anything on these fourms. EPIC FAIL!

But thanks to about a third of you who actually had something of value to say.

@videoGaiden: Not once did you post what kind of video card you have or any of your system specs. Lame.