Saints Row 2 Stuck at 5% no fix so far

[candyGiraffe]

So I am new to PC/steam gaming. I was on the HumbleBundle and found Saints Row 2 for £2 so I bought it and was excited to play one of my favourite games again. I downloaded it through steam but when loaded up it gets stuck at the 5% loading screen. The game itself crashes, I have to use task manager to close it.

I have a new MacBook Pro 2016 running Windows 10 on BootCamp
The Specs are:
Intel i7-6700HQ 2.60GHz Quad Core
16GB Memory
AMD Radeon Pro 450 2GB VRAM

Things I have tried:
Running the game vanilla
Running the game is compatibility mode in XP SP1, SP2, Vista SP2, 7
Downloading a settings.dat file that runs the game in a window
Installing the gentlemen of the row mod with just the patch and compatibility again
Installing powertools mod and compatibility again
Uninstalling the game and reinstalling from steam
Installing as a standalone game without steam (humble bundle included steam code and the downloadable game, tried both)

I am stuck and didn't know if there is something fundamental that I am missing!

[Masamaru]

Windows10 does not contain DirectX9.
Did you already install DirectX9?

DirectX End User Runtimes (June 2010)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=8109

[candyGiraffe]

Publicado originalmente por Masamaru:

Windows10 does not contain DirectX9.
Did you already install DirectX9?

DirectX End User Runtimes (June 2010)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=8109

I will download it now and give it a try, I think that I already have though

[candyGiraffe]

Publicado originalmente por Masamaru:

Windows10 does not contain DirectX9.
Did you already install DirectX9?

DirectX End User Runtimes (June 2010)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=8109

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, that did it! Thank you so much, you don't know how much I've been looking forward to playing this game and I though it wasn't going to happen!

[nor]

Where do I save the file?
https://imgur.com/oQ1OWPP

I'm also having the same problem that OP had :(

[ElD]

same problem, can't solve. Don't know where to save/extract the files when the DirectX program ask which location

[FoxyBoon]

Publicado originalmente por riccardodestro2:

same problem, can't solve. Don't know where to save/extract the files when the DirectX program ask which location

Dude, just extract files in random accessible for you directory and then run setup

[ElD]

Publicado originalmente por ShadowEdgelord:

Publicado originalmente por riccardodestro2:

same problem, can't solve. Don't know where to save/extract the files when the DirectX program ask which location

Dude, just extract files in random accessible for you directory and then run setup

I don’t know much about Windows to be honest, just few basics. So I didn’t know. But, I did it, extracted in a folder and then from the folder I runned the setup, still nothing :/
I tried everything possible. The game is installed on the C: drive, applied the basic patch of the Gentlemen of the Raw mod, runned in compatibility mode, installed the DirectX package “bundled” with the game, tried to install the DirectX package discussed in this thread, also reinstalled Windows but nothing.
It’s on a MacBook Pro 16-inch with i7 9750H, 16 GB DDR4 2666 MHz and Radeon Pro 5300M. Windows 10 Pro.
Interestingly it works on an iMac 21,5” Late 2015 (which is without dedicated graphics but has Intel Iris Pro 6200 graphics, and has i5 5575R), I just moved the Saints Row 2 folder into the iMac’s Steam folder and it worked from first. But I would love to play it on the MacBook Pro 16” and I’m starting thinking it’s just something not possible (don’t know why)...
Just minutia (I think): iMac runs Windows 10 Pro (2004), the MacBook Pro 16” has a more updated version, Windows 10 Pro (20H2) but anyway previously was in 2004 build, with same results...
Thanks

[FoxyBoon]

Sorry, i just a pure windows user, never had any experience with apple
Try to wait Saints Row 2 patched version in steam

[ElD]

For what is worth, in Windows 95 compatibility it eventually load completely and goes to the main menu, but when I try to start a new game it crashes (so basically still stuck there).

I don’t know how much it will take for the patch on Steam to be released, if I remember correctly there’s a ‘team’ of only 2 member working on it... :/

[ElD]

Publicado originalmente por ShadowEdgelord:

Sorry, i just a pure windows user, never had any experience with apple
Try to wait Saints Row 2 patched version in steam

Wait, what if I replace the MBP 16”’s Windows folder and the Program Files (x86) folder with the ones from the iMac where Saints Row 2 works? Is it possible?
Or are there any folder that I can try to “swap”?

EDIT: I could do it from the macOS partition with Paragon NTFS, if it would be worth a try