A beta patch for The Saboteur is hoping to fix ATI graphics compatibility issues. The patch is to fix freezing issues with ATI Radeon 3000, 4000, and 5000 series video cards on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Vista.

What's left of Pandemic Studios (disbaneded and consolidated) promised to also fix "significant streaming issues" with quad-core CPU's in the next patch. Until then, they offer this workaround:

Recommended Game-only steps for Quad core users only:

Windows 7 and Vista

1. Boot the game.
2. Wait for the main menu to load, then press Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
3. Select Start Task Manager.
4. If the game is visible, press Alt-Tab, otherwise continue to the next step.
5. Inside the Task Manager, go to the Processes tab.
6. Find Saboteur.exe, right-click it, and select Set Affinity�
7. De-select CPU 2 and CPU 3.
8. Click OK.

If you haven't picked up a copy of The Saboteur for PC yet, you might want to check out which graphics card your computer uses. The official game boards for The Saboteur have been flooded with complaints about the game not working with ATI graphics cards. Absolutely won't work. The issue appears to be affecting Windows XP, Vista, and 7 users with ATI 3K-5K series graphics cards.

The Saboteur is a third person action adventure game that follows Irish gent, Sean Devlin, in an open-world Nazi-infested WWII era. It was released on December 8th for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

Direct2Drive even went as far as to post a warning:

According to an official post, a fix is being worked on, until then, they state:

We are currently digging into the issue at hand & are working as fast as possible to find a solution.

In some of our tests we have found one workaround that seems to allow users to run the game. Some have posted adjusting the affinity process via “Task Manager” but our fix truly puts the system in a 1 core mode and will allow you to run the game. Overall this is not a final fix, nor a perfectly stable fix, but it will allow you to run the game.

This work around is entirely base upon CPU processing power & will possibly only work for certain systems.

Steps to turn off cores: (For Windows 7)

1.) Open MSCONFIG (You can open it by entering MSCONFIG in the search bar)
2.) Select the “Boot” tab
3.) Click on “Advanced Options”
4.) Check “Number of Processors”
5.) Select “1” from dropdown menu
6.) Click “Apply”
7.) Restart machine


Steps to turn off cores: (For Windows Vista)

1.) Open MSCONFIG – Start> Run > Type MSCONFIG
2.) Select the “BOOT.INI” tab
3.) Click on “Advanced Options…”
4.) Select the check box for /NUMPROC= set it to 1 & click “OK”
5.) Click “Apply”
6.) Restart machine