I'm so confused about this epic nonsense

[thetraveler54321]

I've had this game on my account since forever. I decided to load it up to play christmas missions. Now its trying to install epic gamestore without even asking? WTF is going on and how do I stop it?

[Crystal Sharrd]

I think it's needed for the multiplayer in the new version.
You can revert to the previous version through the sriv_legacy option in the Betas tab.

[Muqaddas Kitob]

You can uninstall it and game plays fine without it, just not with epic bros

[Candesco]

Originally posted by thetraveler54321:

I've had this game on my account since forever. I decided to load it up to play christmas missions. Now its trying to install epic gamestore without even asking? WTF is going on and how do I stop it?

Ever since Saints Row franchise is in the hands of Nordic they decided next to a not so popular reboot of the first one and a shallow remaster of the third, not to mention the closure of volition as well, that saints row iv should also have a sortkind of new version. And then re-elected was born, now complete with the unwanted epic game store as well. The game of the century edition got erased. Nice eh. Well, they have seen the light this year though and have brought back our game of the century edition, now called legacy. As mentioned, you need that to select in the beta tab, which you find in options. With legacy selected the old install will be restored, so if you had game of the century before, complete with all dlc's, then you will have it again. And without that epic game store stuff.

[thetraveler54321]

Originally posted by Candesco:

Originally posted by thetraveler54321:

I've had this game on my account since forever. I decided to load it up to play christmas missions. Now its trying to install epic gamestore without even asking? WTF is going on and how do I stop it?

Ever since Saints Row franchise is in the hands of Nordic they decided next to a not so popular reboot of the first one and a shallow remaster of the third, not to mention the closure of volition as well, that saints row iv should also have a sortkind of new version. And then re-elected was born, now complete with the unwanted epic game store as well. The game of the century edition got erased. Nice eh. Well, they have seen the light this year though and have brought back our game of the century edition, now called legacy. As mentioned, you need that to select in the beta tab, which you find in options. With legacy selected the old install will be restored, so if you had game of the century before, complete with all dlc's, then you will have it again. And without that epic game store stuff.

I did just that. Managed to play through teh Christmas missions in time for Christmas.

[StoNem.-]

Is it possible to play SR4 without having to install that EpicOnlineServices garbage?
I'm only interested in playing in single player

[Smartik1]

Originally posted by StoNem.-:

Is it possible to play SR4 without having to install that EpicOnlineServices garbage?
I'm only interested in playing in single player

Right click the game in the Steam library -> Properties -> Betas -> grab the legacy version.

The legacy works with Steam multiplayer out of the box, I'm playing it with my girlfriend right now.

Few things you want to do though:
1. Add "127.0.0.1 sr3.hydra.agoragames.com" to your Windows hosts file located in "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc". This is because the game stutters every few seconds, because it tries to connect to a server that no longer exists. This redirects the connection back to your pc.
2. Add a framerate limit to 60. You can do it using the Nvidia control panel or any other tool. The engine can't handle high frame rates and you get all sorts of issues, such as audio bugs (car engines make no sound or it comes 10 seconds late etc.).
3. Set CPU core affinity on the SaintsRowIV.exe process in your task manager to fewer cores. The game isn't multithreaded properly and crashes a lot (like every 1-2 missions) if you have too many cores. I set mine to 4: CPU 0, CPU2, CPU4, CPU6. You always want to skip one so you run just 1 thread per physical core. If you can run on 2, good for you. If you get stutters, add more cores. My girlfriend is mostly stable with up to 6 ticked on her laptop, but still crashes sometimes. A lot more rare though than when everything is used.

[Milkdust]

Deep Silver so completely hitched its wagon to Timmy Tencent that DS even went back to break its older games with Epic malware to harvest and sell your data to Tencent.

Suffice to say, Deep Silver is a very, very stupid publisher.

[Smartik1]

Originally posted by Sleezure:

Deep Silver so completely hitched its wagon to Timmy Tencent that DS even went back to break its older games with Epic malware to harvest and sell your data to Tencent.

Suffice to say, Deep Silver is a very, very stupid publisher.

They got paid huge amounts of money for it. They sold out, sure, but not stupid in their eyes.

Keep in mind, in a lot of these companies the leadership doesn't stay very long, therefore they are incentivised to get a huge payout immediately as opposed to thinking long term. Who cares if they sacrifice the long term, they will be long gone ruining another company by then.