Gears Of War PC

daBoss · Post by **daBoss** » 20 Nov 2007, 15:41

Gold Account cost R600 a year hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Microsoft must be on crack or going mad
they dont know it but they are actually motivating piracy again
see with the other games u play free online
so ppl actually buy Originals
except obviously MMO's

Game Specifications :
Minimum System Requirements:

* OS: Windows Vista or Windows XP

* Processor 2.4+ GHz Intel; 2.0+ Ghz AMD

* RAM 1 GB

* Hard Drive 12 GB free hard drive space

* Video Card NVIDIA GeForce 6600+, ATI X700+

* Online Multi-player: Broadband Internet Connection, Games for Windows - LIVE Gold Subscription

Maplassie_GTR · Post by **Maplassie_GTR** » 20 Nov 2007, 15:50

R600 for a year. WTF?

I will take my silver account and dip it in some gold paint and send them a mail!

daBoss · Post by **daBoss** » 20 Nov 2007, 16:04

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/archive/ind ... 54865.html

Obituary · Post by **Obituary** » 20 Nov 2007, 16:33

Has anyone played through the game??

halo · Post by **halo** » 20 Nov 2007, 16:42

IM sure the game plays like the xbox version... Im getting once exams are over... but it should be a fun game to play... its odd that they force a gold membership to play the game online.. they have never done that before... The R600 does come with other benfiets but unless you live in a country with good bandwidth or have an amazing internet connection, its not worth getting a gold membership in sa... not now anyway...

halo · Post by **halo** » 20 Nov 2007, 16:50

thought as much... according to the offical site you only require a silver membership (the free one) to play online:

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
OS: Windows Vista or Windows XP

Processor 2.4+ GHz Intel; 2.0+ Ghz AMD
RAM 1 GB
Hard Drive 12 GB free hard drive space
Video Card NVIDIA GeForce 6600+, ATI X700+
Online Multi-player: Online Multiplayer – Games for Windows – LIVE Silver Membership (included)

daBoss · Post by **daBoss** » 20 Nov 2007, 20:26

so tell me this Halo,
silver membership never expires?

daBoss · Post by **daBoss** » 20 Nov 2007, 20:30

ok i got it
Membership Levels
u cant cross platform with silver status

VoodooProphetII · Post by **VoodooProphetII** » 21 Nov 2007, 06:46

Obituary wrote:Has anyone played through the game??

Hey Obituary.... From what I read, the extra 5 chapters (don't think it's ACTS) are just when you finish inside Marcus's dad's house and you run to get to the APC while the Brumak chases you just before you go to the train station for the final ACT. From what I understand there will be 5 chapters before you get to the train station.

daBoss · Post by **daBoss** » 21 Nov 2007, 08:22

got the game last nite,
Vista sucks,
took about one hour to install :'(

FTB_Screamer · Post by **FTB_Screamer** » 21 Nov 2007, 09:00

So, can anyone tell me if the game is worth the money, Or is it just another overhyped xbox button smashing rubbish. ala Rainbow six Las Vegas.

VoodooProphetII · Post by **VoodooProphetII** » 21 Nov 2007, 09:15

FTB please don't get it. You will not like it one bit. To be honest you'll hate it. The game suck, and I mean really suck. It's worse then any game I've ever played. Be the man that you are, and just let it be, you won't be disappointed. I fell for it, and finished the game 5 times now, and I will buy the PC version, and will buy my brother a copy as well, just like I've done with the xbox 360 version. Oh I hate myself. How could I, how could I be so stupid.

FTB_Screamer · Post by **FTB_Screamer** » 21 Nov 2007, 11:19

VoodooProphetII wrote:FTB please don't get it. You will not like it one bit. To be honest you'll hate it. The game suck, and I mean really suck. It's worse then any game I've ever played. Be the man that you are, and just let it be, you won't be disappointed. I fell for it, and finished the game 5 times now, and I will buy the PC version, and will buy my brother a copy as well, just like I've done with the xbox 360 version. Oh I hate myself. How could I, how could I be so stupid.

uhm, ok.

Obituary · Post by **Obituary** » 21 Nov 2007, 19:09

VoodooProphetII
Thanx

VoodooProphetII · Post by **VoodooProphetII** » 22 Nov 2007, 06:32

Cool beans..... I'll be getting my Gears of War PC somewhere next week. Can't wait.

halo · Post by **halo** » 23 Nov 2007, 15:09

ola... just wanted to ask if anyone else is getting weird shuttering in the game? Im playing it on everything maxed on 1280*1024... it runss amazingly well till suddenly i get huge amounts of lag...dont understand why... will try lower the setting and see what happens... but still, anyone else having this problem?

Charger14 · Post by **Charger14** » 23 Nov 2007, 22:07

Actually me aswell. Game runs great then at the weirdest of times I get huge amounts of lag. Usually when there's nothing happening. go figure

One massively annoying problem I've had is that it sometimes manages to lose all your save games. Then unless you fiddle with the game files and "cheat" back to where you were you gota start all over again.

Other than that, awesome game! Jamming it co-op with a friend of mine over lan, very fun!

psYChowIt · Post by **psYChowIt** » 25 Nov 2007, 13:06

Just bought it

Installing as we speak

halo · Post by **halo** » 25 Nov 2007, 14:14

psYChowIt wrote:Just bought it Installing as we speak

Hope you enjoy it... Ive had to stop playing... I get to one part and then the game just crawls... doesnt matter want setting im running the game on (im talking 800*600 with everything set to low) and it just drops from 100+fps down to 0 and then next thing you no im dead... its soooooooo anoying! o well... thats life, and R300 ill never see again

psYChowIt · Post by **psYChowIt** » 25 Nov 2007, 14:35

I just played for about 40 min LOVING IT!!!!! the best third person camera I've handled

halo · Post by **halo** » 27 Nov 2007, 19:38

All done... Still have no idea if i like the PC version better than the Xbox one, but who cares... I enjoyed the extra act, made the time line make more sense

RAAM is a bit^& on hardcore... even on PC!

RiaX · Post by **RiaX** » 01 Dec 2007, 13:55

Hi i got gow the other day installed it and then tried to play it with no success the games shows the opening logo and does not start .... thought the program is running and listed in the task manager it does nothing.... the game works I played it once and after that it never start again.

I installed it on xp not vista and apparently alot of people are having this problem and i was wondering if anyone out there has had a similar problem an if possible how to fix this .... an original game doesnt guarantee it will work lol

btw my sytstem is above the reccomended so its not hardware related.

Pino · Post by **Pino** » 01 Dec 2007, 19:25

Loved it. Oh yea and there are alot of people on the official forums moaning about the stuttering , Should be fixed in the next patch.

RiaX · Post by **RiaX** » 03 Dec 2007, 12:07

Oh the patch fixes a lot of bugs in the game like making it work start up with no lag however it doesnt fix a very critical problem and thats loss of saved games, this is a major problem on XP and there isnt a fix for this. Everytime i quit my save data is lost and a $h*t load of gamers are having this problem i dont know if its a XP only problem but the issue has to do with the LIVE thing and its absolutely absurd that there is a problem like this if you thinking about buying this game i would honestly think twice.

The gameplay and graphics is brilliant.... it is a game worth having but the fact its so full of bugs makes it a piece of garbage definitely not worth the R300+ you will pay for it. Its a shame though i really enjoyed the game until the time i got to the next morning with all my saves gone, epic has not released a patch/fix for this and hasnt even addressed the problem to the gamers (if anyone knows how to fix please tell me cause there isnt anything on technical support they havent even replied to my emails

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If you dont belive me check the epic forums at http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=583531

my advice to you is buy something else like crysis or COD 4

daBoss · Post by **daBoss** » 03 Dec 2007, 14:58

here is the last part of the review

I’d be remiss if I neglected to mention the slight stutters during level loading which seems to affect some more than others. To me (AMD 64 x2 4200, 2 GB RAM, 7800 GT, Win XP SP2) it was noticeable, but didn’t detract from the experience overall. Also in the negative column is the limited matchmaking – that is unless you subscribe to Xbox LIVE Gold, which I don’t. You can find a few players online simply enough otherwise, but you can’t escape the feeling that you’re missing part of the game if you’re a lowly free Silver subscriber. Be aware also, that as of this time, there is no dedicated server and I am not aware of any plans for one. Despite all that, there’s a tremendous amount of fun stuff here and it’s all beautifully done. If the gameplay I described sounds like your thing, then there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy it.

read full review here
http://www.beyondunreal.com/content/art ... rspc_1.php