I have written a LiveSplit auto-splitter for the game to help remove time losses cased by inconsistent performance and stability. Maybe it entice more people to share the suffering of this dreadful game. The auto-splitter is available by default in LiveSplit when the game is set to 'Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days'.

Here are the current features of the auto-splitter:

• Resetting during the intro cutscene.
• Starting when the player first gains control.
• Pausing during loading screens (sometimes it unpauses for the host!).
• Splitting when a level ends.
• Splitting before the final cutscene of the game, finishing the run.
• [Optional] Pausing during all cutscenes. Off by default unless it is decided that cutscenes should not be timed.

If you need to restart the game to present crashes the best practice is to pause the timer (with a hotkey) during the loading screen for the next level, restart the game, and then unpause the timer while you are loading into the next level. I personally Alt-F4 during the loading screen after the helicopter crash, then load the next level. This method should cut out all loading times.

Make sure to compare against game time to remove loading times (Right click > Compare Against > Game Time). If you're running co-op (hopefully you are), you should both use LiveSplit in case something goes wrong.