I've recently bought Saints Row 2 and am still unable to get through the Gamespy logo screen before crashing.
I'm using a HP Pavilion dv4, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1, Intel Core i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz, 4GB RAM. I've followed through all of the solutions listed on http://steamcommunity.com/app/9480/discussions/0/846958724811426425/ and http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1715922 without any success.
Running the game off fresh install didn't produce any setting.dat file, so I couldn't delete the file for it to be recreated, while using the windowed 800x600 settings file still caused me to crash. Steam game cache verification turned out OK. All USB devices are not attached during any of my attempts and running compatibility mode for Windows XP SP2 or 3 as well as disabling visual themes, desktop composition and display scaling on high DPI settings also didn't work. I'm unable to disable any enchantments in the speaker property settings since the tab does not show up at all. Game has been installed in C: drive, while reinstalling the game and DirectX multiple times also didn't do anything.
At this point I'm stumped on how to get Saints Row 2 working and are close to giving up on being able to ever run the game. Sorry for the wall of text but does anyone have any additional solutions to suggest?
I'm using a HP Pavilion dv4, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1, Intel Core i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz, 4GB RAM. I've followed through all of the solutions listed on http://steamcommunity.com/app/9480/discussions/0/846958724811426425/ and http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1715922 without any success.
Running the game off fresh install didn't produce any setting.dat file, so I couldn't delete the file for it to be recreated, while using the windowed 800x600 settings file still caused me to crash. Steam game cache verification turned out OK. All USB devices are not attached during any of my attempts and running compatibility mode for Windows XP SP2 or 3 as well as disabling visual themes, desktop composition and display scaling on high DPI settings also didn't work. I'm unable to disable any enchantments in the speaker property settings since the tab does not show up at all. Game has been installed in C: drive, while reinstalling the game and DirectX multiple times also didn't do anything.
At this point I'm stumped on how to get Saints Row 2 working and are close to giving up on being able to ever run the game. Sorry for the wall of text but does anyone have any additional solutions to suggest?
