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    Gears Of War - PC

    I bought this yesterday, got it installed and after a while I was playing the game, but to my surprise it crashed to desktop after completing just the first level of it. Reading about it seems that lots of people are having similar problems with this game (which is a pitty really as it looks really good)

    Anyone else have a similar problem with this game if they've got it and how to fix it ??

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    Re: Gears Of War - PC

    Could you post some screenshots?

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    Re: Gears Of War - PC

    Does it always happen at the same point, or does it crash randomly?

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    Re: Gears Of War - PC

    I've been getting video driver problems with it on Vista Home Premium 64bit. I've got the latest version of the drivers running with an 8800gtx on max settings and it seems to play perfectly then all of a sudden it just crashes


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    Re: Gears Of War - PC

    seems like lots of people with nvidia cards get crashes on it. my friends one crashed too and hes on an nvidia machine. yet another one has a radeon and no probs there. but i've just seen that the op has a radeon too so it seems weird. maybe they didnt port it properly.

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    Re: Gears Of War - PC

    I've played it through to completion with the rig on the left, and no crashes to desktop, just an odd issue with LIVE deleting my save games (another story - go check epicforums). I'm using 163.75 but only on XP - possibly a driver version could be the problem? Or maybe its a Vista issue?

    Game is fantastic though - I couldnt put it down until I'd finished it. I've a modest rig (relatively) and I manged to run at top whack at 1920x1200 and it was lovely. Good job with the port tbh - IMO anyway.

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    Re: Gears Of War - PC

    No problems here, using latest betas from nvidia on XP

    I preferred playing this compared to Crysis

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    Re: Gears Of War - PC

    The patch that came out last week fixed the problem for me, so I'm well pleased, what a great game it is

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    Re: Gears Of War - PC

    I've been running this on DX10 with AA at 1680x1050 on my 8800GT since launch without issue. I've not even bothered to patch it.

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    Re: Gears Of War - PC

    crashed on mine too.. seems to be far more stable after I took off the OC.. but I still get crashes to the desktop sometimes..

    Crysis did the same anyways..
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    Re: Gears Of War - PC

    I had no crashes (8800GTX and Win XP), but the screen tearing was horrible, and no amount of tweaking of Vsync in the game nor driver options, made it go away. I couldn't find a solution anywhere on the net either.

    I didn't like the game though anyway. It was linear and a bit dumb and felt old fashioned to me. COD4 was quite linear but I much preferred it for some reason.

    I couldn't play it very long though to be sure anyway, cause the screen tearing made me feel quite sick.

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    Re: Gears Of War - PC

    Quote Originally Posted by acrobat View Post
    I had no crashes (8800GTX and Win XP), but the screen tearing was horrible, and no amount of tweaking of Vsync in the game nor driver options, made it go away
    I had that problem too when i first played it. I think that the Nvidia drivers have messed up and are linked to the wrong exe name - hence no vsync. Basically, ADD a new profile and then select the g4wl-wargame (or whatever its called) exe and then bang it works!

    And to tell the truth, it makes the game a lot better. Before it, all i would notice was tearing during combat. With that gone, i realised how amazingly beautiful it was. Personally I loved it. But try it out. And you can also try to apply AA on it too - google a utility called nhancer - then when you select AA - select the Oblivion AA+HDR compatability mode. It was a bit too much for my rig, but it looked sweeeet!!!

    Hope that helps a bit.

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    Re: Gears Of War - PC

    Thank you jonathan_phang! I didn't like it that much, but hopefully with that graphics fix, it might allow me to get into the game a bit more! Thanks a lot.

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    Re: Gears Of War - PC

    @Acrobat: If - like me - you havent played the 360 version before, then I just see it as a really cheesy, but funny at times, action film that you play, but with REALLY high production values. Played it straight through until completion. Not even Bioshock has compelled me to do it. Some say its boring, but i like the cover system, and its amazingly visceral too, and the combat is really satisfying. Its a keeper on my drive. Hope you get into it too!

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    That sounds really promising I was not a fan of Bioshock either. And yeah I thought this game was cheesy but a lot like an action film, and I like action films sometimes I can't wait to play it again, with this fix. I installed it again but haven't played it yet, because being ill is rubbish :C

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    Re: Gears Of War - PC

    I completed this on the 360 and going to a mouse with it feels really weird.

    Got to give it to Epic, the console controls mixed with cover is probably one of the best set-ups I've seen for a long time
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