But again, why is Special K recommended for this guide? It's mostly because of:

-Easily injecting into any Steam game at the click of a button and booting up the game you want.
-A simple process of clicking a button and choosing the FPS you desire.
-Ability to uncap the framerate of certain moments of the game!

However, a word of warning, there is currently no Mini-Mod developed for Saints Row The Third Remastered. This guide is simply making use of Special K's features.


Visit https://discourse.differentk.fyi/ to obtain Special K either through:

-The Download button at the top of the website
(Test version is recommended because of the Steam Game List bug and simply being more updated.)

or

-Visit the Discord, which can be accessed at the top of the website, and download the latest version of the injector in #releases

You'll know you have a recent enough or the right version when it SKIF looks just like below, and the version uses "calendar dates" instead.



Click "Start Service" and boot Saints Row The Third Remastered! Either through Steam or SKIF, it makes no difference.

According to PCGW:

On some systems, the game may impose bizarre frame rate caps such as 15 or 22 FPS in cutscenes and 50 or 67 FPS in gameplay. This bug appears to happen only on systems running the Windows 10 2004 update or later.

This is the same FPS bug that happens on the video above. Game running with nothing over it, just the game itself.

But you can fix them to run at the original 30 FPS framerate, and fix the game's odd framerate caps! Running just as intended, like below.



Any software that can cap the framerate of the game can do this, but for this example, we'll be using Special K.


After Starting the Special K Service with SKIF, and booting up the game, you'll be greeted with a message on the top indicating Special K has hooked to the game.



Press Ctrl+Shift+Backspace like prompted to bring up the Special K Menu.

After you've accessed it, check Framerate Limit, and make sure it's set to the framerate you want to run the game on.(60 recommended)

Enjoy! The game show now run at it's intended framerate, while gameplay runs at the framerates you wish, without running like a slideshow!


PS: If you have NVIDIA Hardware, open Advanced and enable NVIDIA Reflex. 😉

PS: The cutscenes and some effects weren't intended to be run at 60 FPS, and gameplay(non-animated) cutscenes will run at double the speed! You have been warned!

Credits to Adam at the Special K Discord for discovering this!

Experience the cutscenes in silky smooth 60 FPS easily! Thanks to a function in Special K accidentally unlocking the framerates in cutscenes, it is possible to run them at 60 FPS, with only minor glitches, like the fireball in the Introduction, or the subtitles finishing too fast

Disabling subtitles is best recommended to run this until a mod is found/made to fix this.




Open up Special K like you normally would to limit the framerate like the previous section of the guide, and limit the framerate. Next, click Advanced.


Check Sleepless Render Thread.

Done. Next cutscene you check will likely run at the desired framerate.


(This was only tested at 60 FPS, test at higher framerates on your own risk.)

PS: Enable the NVIDIA Reflex option if you have NVIDIA Hardware. 🤠

Disable Sleepless Render Thread. You were warned. This only happens with non-animated cutscenes.

Again, they weren't meant to be running at 60 fps. Disable Sleepless Render Thread to play the game at normal framerates.

The game isn't actually running at double speed, but this is a game bug that predates since the original, where after finishing certain missions, there's a chance your framerate plummets in half(normally to 30.)

Disable Flip Model Presentation. This game does not play well with that feature of Special K for some reason.