geting gears of war to work in vista

[Elspuddy]

some how i never got it to work in vista , gears of war just stops working and a box show up to say gears of war has stoped working, i have grabed the latest patch from filefrount but i get the same problem, works fine in xp, and i'm useing the 64 bit version of vista.

[s_kinton]

I've been running GoW on Vista 64bit with no issues.

Are you using any kind of no DVD patch at all?
Have you got the latest drivers for your graphics card installed?
Can you list the main components of your PC?

[Ferral]

Strange as it is labelled as games for windows!

I played through it with no issues at all on 64bit Vista. Getting the stopped responding type error could well be a driver issue. Like mentioned update VGA drivers and also your motherboard drivers.

[Elspuddy]

I've been running GoW on Vista 64bit with no issues.

Are you using any kind of no DVD patch at all?
Have you got the latest drivers for your graphics card installed?
Can you list the main components of your PC?

nope, no "no dvd" patch
and his hd 4850 512 , abit ib9 , intell core 2 duo e4400
and i'm running the latest ati drivers

[Elspuddy]

tryed the latest intel chipset drivers and it still dose it, if it's any help here is the crash report

problem signature
Problem Event Name:	APPCRASH
Application Name:	wargame-g4wlive.exe
Application Version:	1.0.3340.131
Application Timestamp:	47a12f65
Fault Module Name:	MSVCR80.dll
Fault Module Version:	8.0.50727.1434
Fault Module Timestamp:	4757746d
Exception Code:	40000015
Exception Offset:	000046b4
OS Version:	6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID:	2057
Additional Information 1:	ee3d
Additional Information 2:	2c7df23ce59f6e7b2d7391809e3a9951
Additional Information 3:	6f80
Additional Information 4:	77e363d0bc9ece80396a1c79ad82813c

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID:	668309637

[fonz_valo]

Oddly enough i've never had any problems running GoW in Vista Homre Premium x64 sp1...

Have you tried re-installing the game?

[Elspuddy]

reinstalled and reformated as well

[s_kinton]

Its seems theres quite a few people out there having trouble running GoW on Vista with a 4850 or 4870:

http://forums.amd.com/game/messagevi...threadid=97065
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=2793304
http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f15/ge...-crash-168648/

[Elspuddy]

thanks guys i got it working now

[s_kinton]

thanks guys i got it working now

Care to explain how? People often find these threads via search engines and its always a pain when the problem is solved but nobody explains

[Elspuddy]

doh forgot about that
this is how i fixed it
i went into my gears of war/binaines folder , found the startup.exe and told it to run as admin this managed to give the program time to get the update i was missing (and enter my cd key) after the update was instaled it ran fine.

[jonathan_phang]

Here is a link to a PC specific sticky on Epic forums:

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=607234

This lists the most commonly raised problems and their solutions. I have now run into some problems over XP and then vista, and mostly to do with the games for windows live executable. This seems to be your problem, and was raised in the main gow forum. Its a good place to look if you have tech problems - though you do have to put up with the bitching from all the little kiddies.

Great game though! Now playing on Vista32 fine... If only i had time for all the achievements!!!

[heyuptiger]

damn vista problems... theres some many of them