I have written a dummy version of the DFEngine.dll that basically does nothing.
The original DFEngine.dll supplied the game with ads that were supposed to appear on the game's billboards and also sent tracking information about the user.
As far as I can tell, Double Fusion no longer supplies ads to the game, so the dll file basically does nothing but slow down your game and use up memory.
What this replacement dll file does is return an error code to the game engine when initialised. The game engine then stops using the ad serving API.
To install, just rename the "DFEngine.dll" in the Saints Row 2 directory to "old DFEngine.dll". Then copy my version of the "DFEngine.dll" file into the Saints Row 2 directory.
Hopefully it should make the game run a bit smother and help those people crashing because they are running out of memory.
I've included the source code as other modders can use it as a base to patch the game.
The original DFEngine.dll supplied the game with ads that were supposed to appear on the game's billboards and also sent tracking information about the user.
As far as I can tell, Double Fusion no longer supplies ads to the game, so the dll file basically does nothing but slow down your game and use up memory.
What this replacement dll file does is return an error code to the game engine when initialised. The game engine then stops using the ad serving API.
To install, just rename the "DFEngine.dll" in the Saints Row 2 directory to "old DFEngine.dll". Then copy my version of the "DFEngine.dll" file into the Saints Row 2 directory.
Hopefully it should make the game run a bit smother and help those people crashing because they are running out of memory.
I've included the source code as other modders can use it as a base to patch the game.