Saints Row The Third problems

Hi all, been having a few problems with SR3 for a while now. The game often rarely loads up, i start it through Steam, the launcher comes up and then it just freezes and stops responding, i've uninstalled it and downloaded it several times now and i get the same problem. Now it does finally load up for me to be able to play it but it keeps everything on the lowest settings and if i try to change anything (even the resolution back to the native screen display of 1600x900) the game just crashes to desktop and kicks me right out of the game.

Is there anyway i can force this game to play at its best settings as i know the M14X should be able to play the game fine, hell i can play GTA4 on high settings at a decent 40fps at 1600x900 so i cant understand why i can't even change the settings on the game. Any ideas as to what i can do to get this game playing? Anyone else have this on their M14X?

Specs
1600x900 screen, i7 2670QM (turbo boost off), 4GB DDR3 1600MHz, Crucial M4 128GB SSD, 500GB HDD, 1.5GB GT555m BIOS A08,

 

Things like this are almost never related to the game files and some kind of corrupted download. If if you fell into that super rare situation steam lets you verifiy game file integrity and fixes only the broken/missing files and saves you from downloading the entire thing again.

Since you have done that multiple times you should catch on that its no the problem.

It is most likely your graphics drivers causing you grief, or a prerequisite you need to update like framework or directx.

 

Yeah i've verified the game cache multiple times and it always downloads the same 82mb file (the game launcher) over and over again but it never seems to fix the problem.

I will try and update my directX when i get back but then i'm sure it gets updated each time i install a new steam game anyway. I'll give it a shot when i'm near an internet connection again.