GEARS OF WAR COMETH... AGAIN!!!!

[TrinireturnofGamez]

 Its supposed to run smooth on a 7900gt , dual core athlon 64 at 1280x1024 , maxed out..

 Haven't finished acquring it it yet.. might drop pc over a weekend by my bro with flow.

[UltimateGamer]

runs flawless on mine

[TriniXaeno]

wish I could say the same.

playing fass, I upped the graphics yet again, to 1280x1024. Seeing as how slow paced the fire fights are, don't really need 60fps to peek out of cover and fire a few rounds.

That went well enough and the game is looking sexy.

However, and I am sure it is not related to the increased res, my machine keeps crashing. PC has died more times than Marcus. Usually upon entering a new area, or right after I dead and was in the process of reloading.

Now, in the past how many months, I could count on one hand the number of times this PC crashed. Is it just me? or is GOW wreaking havoc on other PCs out there?

[TrinireturnofGamez]

 might be you need more RAM and CPU nigel  , try killing unecessary processes..

 If it gets the same FPS at like 1024x768 as it does 640x480 , your CPU / RAM is probably bottlenecked.

 Bioshock and other unreal 3 engine games are known to send a dual core to 100% usage occasionally .

[Arcmanov]

Usually, a crash like that could be related to a graphics driver, or a RAM issue.
Check your RAM timings, or voltages if necessary, and update your Nvidia driver to at least 169.01.
You may actually find a newer (beta) driver on Guru3D.

Let us know how it goes.

[Spazosaurus]

O_0 n00b got pwnt GOW spoke to his machine and said all your processing powers are weak all your cycles are belong to me b1atch.

The driver seems to be the most likely culprit in this case though.

[Eroo]

wish I could say the same.

playing fass, I upped the graphics yet again, to 1280x1024. Seeing as how slow paced the fire fights are, don't really need 60fps to peek out of cover and fire a few rounds.

That went well enough and the game is looking sexy.

However, and I am sure it is not related to the increased res, my machine keeps crashing. PC has died more times than Marcus. Usually upon entering a new area, or right after I dead and was in the process of reloading.

Now, in the past how many months, I could count on one hand the number of times this PC crashed. Is it just me? or is GOW wreaking havoc on other PCs out there?

Actually there are a large number of users experiencing the crashing. If you go the Epic forums you'll see endless users reporting the crashes. Luckily no crashes for me.
I must say this is prob the best looking game I've played on PC so far.

[W1nTry]

Ahh yes... that GOW sweat on LIVE was bess... time to sleep, it is 3a, after all

[Arcmanov]

Couldn't be better than the COD4 online PC sweat.

[.:Jedi:.]

very true words there arc. as for the crashing issue, a ratch fix is to run the game in windowed mode till u see the error msg come up, then simply alt+enter into fullscreen.....

[Eroo]

This only fixes one of the 3 main crashes.

The other two are outright crashing once the exe is launched and then another is randomly crashing about 10 minutes into the game.

[TrinireturnofGamez]

 works great for me expect for a memory leak.. after 3-4 checkpoints the frame rate starts to get choppy , have to restart game to fix it .

  works @ 60 ish fps , 1024x768 with all options turned up , 45 ish at 1280x1024 with stuff turned off.
 
  With hamachi we should be able to set up a virtual LAN game without live.. anyone care to try?
 

[Redfish]

I had installed GOW and when I reached the start of an areas in ACT III after right after you pawned the locusts when you had to push the car for cover, the game gives me some C+++ error. It seems like this error had plagued many other ppl.

 I thought was my Video Card driver but that was the most recent and that point and that point only in the game is when it crashes.

It played fine all the time before. I uninstalled it cause I got so fustrated downloading all kinda stuff from microsoft to try and fix it....

A work around was to get the saved games to skip that act but what's the fun in that? Guess it's Microsoft's way of trying to mess with PC games as usual...

[W1nTry]

Question, is it a LEGIT copy of the game?

[Philosophical45]

lol @ legit copy... hmm i'm not even looking to get that game until i get my 8800... my x1550 faithful.. but i aint into watchin a slideshow on my screen... NO SIR!!

[W1nTry]

Well what I am getting at is man complaining how MS stressing him, however if he ent have a LEGIT copy he's not in ANY position to complain that a 'cracked' game ain't working :p

[kgfalby]

I agree with Eroo... This game is eye candy galore. So far i've been playing at 1280x1024 with everything on high and 4x aa. No issues or sticking yet.

I'm definitely considering getting an original asap.

[TriniXaeno]

I was reallly looking forward to completing GoW when I got my upgraded rig, but now since touching CoD 4, damn...I don't think I'm ever going back.

[W1nTry]

The heart of GOW is ONLINE/Multiplayer. Sure the game is fun in story mode, but its PALES in comparison to online play!!! I love COD4 doh get me wrong, but a GOW sweat can keep yuh stuck there as well I assure you

[Redfish]

I got an "acquired" copy but the thing is people who have the legit one were having the same crashes so that's why I was wondering what's the deal with epic but I really dunno how some ppl have no probs and some do but oh well...