Hey guys, I bought the game a while ago and I don't know why it's so laggy and crashing at 1-10 fps. Does anyone know how I can solve this problem?

SR2 wasnt patched at all for years, You cant steal any car nor start up any missions including the starting mission the game will always crash, if u want to play download The Gentleman of the Row and add it to the base game and you can play and enjoy

Why is that? Does Linux run this game better?

the answer is JUICED + DXVK The smoothest in my opinion was disabling the games vsync in the options menu, then enabling it through nvidia control panel instead. It was much smoother after i tried that. You can also create a dxvk.conf file and paste in these commands to make it vsync + anisotropic filtering 16x. Thats only if the nvidia control panel overrides dont work tho dxgi.syncInterval = 1 d3d9.presentInterval = 1 d3d11.samplerAnisotropy = 16 d3d9.samplerAnisotropy = 16...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhB4sVtPUJ8 Today marks the 5 year anniversary since Volition has announced SR2 PC Patch/Rerelease project on their YouTube live stream in 2019. It is also 1 year + about 1.8 months after Volition's shutdown in 2023. There is no evidence of SR2 PC Patch/Rerelease (aka "Saints Row 2: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Edition" or "Project: Mjolnir") is still in development or will come out in any foreseeable future. I can say this project is cancelled, or in a corporate speak "on hol...