I didn't see this specifically mentioned but I know I'm not the only one with this problem.

It won't let me change to the resolution I want, any ideas?

It lets me go really low (looks bad) or really high (shit framerate) but not in the middle. It keeps telling me change failed.

I'm all ears. :D

Not to mention such things as the resolution he's attempting to change to, OS, GPU, drivers and all other pertinent information.

I'm having a lot of trouble posting in the community forums! OY! XD

Okay, now it's working. :D

Anyway I really want to apologize for that over site. I'm always giving people shit for doing that and here I am doing it, no doubt wrapping up the Asshole of the Month Award. :P

Anyway it's number 2, and like I told a few other people, I got it working at some high resolutions with the Ambiance thing turned off giving me a good FPS. Still though I am genuinely curious why some resolutions work and some don't. I found some stuff in the Steam forum about it but all those turned out to be are Steam regs yelling at people for asking about it. XD Typical Steam forum.

I just got home and saw your reply in Chat, then fired up the game to see if I could change the res setting (I could), then came here to find you no longer need help. (Well, not the kind we're qualified to give, at any rate. =D ) Glad you figured out a way to get it working decently.

Some unsolicited advice: If you notice the action in the game seems a little sped up, I would strongly recommend looking into a little utility called Saints Row Powertools -- it allows you to fiddle with the speed the game runs at (by default it runs WAAAAY too fast -- about 50% faster than normal on my laptop, for example), thus making it more playable. An improved vehicle handling mod is also advised -- you'll see why. =)

Did you try all the resolutions? Some work and some don't. That's what gets me. Of course it's minor but still curious to me.

Oh, no, I didn't -- I thought you meant that it simply wouldn't let you change the resolution setting at all, so I just started the game, went to Options -> Display -> Choose Resolution, and confirmed that I could select the different res options. But going through them now and selecting each, one by one, I see what you mean -- 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, and 1920x1200 try to switch, then tell me the change failed; the other nine settings all tell me to restart to have the change take effect (which was the reason I didn't check any more thoroughly earlier: I thought you meant the "change failed" message appeared after you restarted; and as you can imagine, I wasn't wild about the idea of starting the game, changing one setting, quitting the game, then repeating that process thirteen more times =D ).

I notice that, of the five resolutions that gave the error message, four were 8:5 resolutions. 1920x1080 is 16:9, though, so I'm not sure this means anything.

How long does it take for the game to restart? That does seem weird though.