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Saints Row IV

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Saints Row IV
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Developers
Deep Silver Volition
Publishers
Deep Silver
Engines
CTG
Release dates
Windows August 20, 2013
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Saints Row IV on Wikipedia
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Saints Row
Saints Row 2 2009
Saints Row: The Third 2011
Saints Row IV 2013
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell 2015
Saints Row: The Third Remastered 2020
Saints Row 2022

Key points

Large number of video settings.

General information

Port Report: Saints Row IV
Official Forums (non PC-specific)
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Amazon.com
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GamersGate
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Green Man Gaming
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Steam
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 Game of the Century Edition is also available.
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All versions require Steam.[1]

Version differences

Game of the Century Edition is a complete edition with all DLC including the Child's Play Pack which is no longer available separately.[2]

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions
Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/206420/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/206420/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Display settings.

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Input settings

Control settings.

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Audio settings

Audio settings.
Gameplay settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Japanese
Polish
Russian

Network

Issues unresolved

Infinite loading screen

A single save game reaches an infinite load screen at the same point each time.
Officially there is no solution to this problem, and the save game is lost.[3]
Verifying the game cache and a system restart may help alleviate the issue.[4]

Issues fixed

Controls unresponsive

Issue whereby the game stops responding to control inputs upon entering the hub menu.
This issue can be resolved by restarting the game.[5]

Remove aim assist

Instructions

Controller buttons glitch

The symbols displaying which button to press during gameplay and quick-time events flicker between keyboard and controller when using a gamepad.
Issue seems to begin if the player moves the mouse or uses the keyboard when the controller is plugged in.
A game restart is required to alleviate the problem.[6]

Game doesn't save rebound keys

Issue where the game pretends to accept a rebound key setup but the changes don't take effect.
Can be resolved by deleting the default game bindings, and then rebinding to the desired setup.[7]

Crash after title credits (AMD users)

Issue where AMD users who have installed the game on a drive other than C:// have the game crash to a black screen post title logos.[8]
This issue may be resolved by moving the game to the C:// drive.[9][10]

Black screen on launch - window keeps minimising

Upon launch, the screen goes black for a few seconds, the game window minimises, and cannot be maximised.
Instructions

Low frame rate (AMD users)

Issue where a low frame rate is experienced (especially in the open world), even on a high end AMD machine.
May be resolved by installing the new AMD beta driver, which reports a performance increase of up to 25%.[11]

Frame rate locked at 30 FPS after beating the game

After the credits the game will be locked to a frame rate of 30 frames per second.
Simply exiting the program and relaunching it will resolve this issue.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 or AMD Athlon II x3 Intel i3 2100T or AMD Phenom II x4 or higher
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 GB
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA GTX 260
AMD Radeon HD 5800 series
DirectX 10 compatible 		NVIDIA GTX 560
AMD Radeon HD 6800 series
DirectX 11 compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/206420/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (206420) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References