Saints Row IV Review (unknownhero1123)
The "upgrade" patch of 12/8/2022 riddles the game with crashes, old saves can't be loaded reportedly, borderless window option is gone, to top it all off, it tries to force you to make an epic games account with some reports that the prompt won't close properly until you turn it off through task manager. I have a solution though thanks to therealbatata on the saintsrowmods site:
* Boot up Steam, and open the developer console by pressing Windows+R, then pasting steam://open/console in the "Run" box and pressing Enter.
* In the developer console, paste the following: download_depot 206420 206421 32002699204955846
* These are the main SRIV files (packfiles, videos, etc.) from the last patch before the abysmal Re-Elected patch. They're 8,670 megs (almost 8,70 GB!), so they'll take some time to download.
* Once they download, paste the following in Steam's console: download_depot 206420 206422 6013726710204312506
* This is just 6 megs, and it's the old SRIV executable. You need it to play SRIV without the patch: the new executable won't work with the old files.
* Before you do anything with them, head to your Saints Row IV installation folder (by default, it's Steam -> steamapps -> common -> Saints Row IV) and delete the following files: SaintsRowIV.exe, sr_hv.exe & SaintsRowIV.ini
* Now that you have the old files, you have to locate them. They're in your Steam installation folder, under steamapps -> content -> app_206420. There, you'll find the old files under the "depot_206421" and "depot_206422" folders.
* Copy and paste the content of both folders in your Saints Row IV folder. Replace all the new files with the old ones (they're 100 as far as I remember).
* Now, start the game in Steam.
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* Profit! Now you can play SRIV again.