Saints Row: The Third Remastered Guide: Skip Intro Videos, HDR, & Other Minor Issues

Saints Row The Third Remastered Guide
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Saints Row: The Third Remastered was recently released by Deep Silver Volition and fanatics of the franchise couldn’t be happier. Since 2015, fanatics had been anxiously waiting for another instalment. Instead of a sequel, Deep Silver Volition decided to release a remastered version of their admired Saints Row: The Third instead. If you’ve recently purchased the game, you may be searching for a Saints Row: The Third Remastered guide to getting you through all the issues that come with new releases.

Don’t worry, because we’ve got one for you just here! In this article, we’ll guide you on how you can skip the intro videos in Saints Row: The Third Remastered, and fix the HDR being a bit too dark issue and a few other minor issues, too. These solutions are all that have been tested and approved to work by other players in the community.

How To Skip Intro Videos In Saints Row: The Third Remastered?

Intro videos can be often bothersome. They’re long-drawn, repetitive and waste time when you want to jump straight into the action. What makes them even worse is when you can’t skip intro videos. The same is the case with Saints Row: The Third Remastered. However, there’s a workaround for this!

  • Go over to the drive that you’ve installed Saints Row: The Third Remastered into.
  • Open the Steam folder.
  • Open the steamapps folder.
  • From there, open the common folder.
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  • You’ll see the Saints Row: The Third Remastered folder there, open that.
  • Open the folder called videos.
  • Find this exact file and delete it; startup_logos.bik.
  • Go back into the Saints Row: The Third Remastered folder.
  • Find and open the display.ini file in any text editor, such as Notepad.
  • Copy-paste the code mentioned below at the bottom of the file, and save it.
SkipIntroVideo = true
NOTE: Changing the display settings will overwrite the file and remove the parameter.

How To Fix The Game Being Too Dark In HDR Issue In Saints Row: The Third Remastered?

HDR is a useful feature if you’re on a powerful GPU and want to get the most out of it in terms of both visual quality and clarity. However, players have complained that the HDR feature in Saints Row The Third: Remastered makes the scenes too dark. Luckily, there’s an easy solution to this issue!

  • Open the Display settings in Saints Row: The Third Remastered.
  • Go to the HDR Settings tab.
  • Change the brightness to 90 and then back to 100.

How To Fix The Incorrect Refresh-Rate In Saints Row: The Third Remastered Issue?

If you’re playing Saints Row: The Third Remastered on a high refresh-rate monitor but it feels choppy, that’s probably because the game’s using the incorrect refresh-rate values. Not only does this make the game uneven but it also ruins the immersive experience of the open-world environment. However, there’s a quick and simple solution to this!

  • Download the latest version of 3Dmigoto from here.
  • Extract the 3Dmigoto-XX.zip archive.
  • Go into the x64 folder.
Saints Row: The Third Remastered Guide
  • Copy-paste all of the contents into the Saints Row: The Third directory.
  • Find and open the d3dx.ini file.
  • Change the command line “hunting=1” to “hunting=0” and save it.
  • Change the command line “;refresh_rate=60” to your desired refresh-rate value. For instance, ;refresh_rate=144.

Conclusion:

If you’ve encountered any of the above-mentioned issues, do try the solutions out and the issues should be fixed. It is important to remember that Saints Row: The Third is still a fairly new release. Hence, it’ll take some time for Deep Silver Volition to fix all the above and any further issues. Hopefully, we’ll receive a patch in the next few days.

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