Yep, what I’ve been saying for years. I just picked up one of them old Gears of War game guides with a bundled in art book at a local vintage game shop and it really drove home how much I really want all the Gears games accessible on one disk/steam
@@grimacethedrummer8378 played the trilogy in the 360 days, moved to ps4 (and now have a ps5), but recently built a gaming pc.. would love to play some of my favorite 360 games when I was younger on pc that are optimized and updated good... I guess since no one has heard anything in a while about the older gears of war games, probably not coming
We don't all the games are on game pass and run at 60 frames per second with the series s or x boost. They still have multiplayer servers open and you can play on Xbox right now.
It’s sad. We’re getting the new titles on PC, but the new titles just aren’t good. All I want is Gears 1-3 on Steam, damnit! Why won’t you let me give you more of my money, Microsoft!?!
Yeah I don't understand it either, by the time they get ported or run on PC we'll have fully native 1080p or 4K emulation working...so it's kinda pointless but if they were remastered to support 1080p or higher and didn't require 120GB for the install haha
They just need to release the OG version on steam. Just release it. No optimisation or wherever. Just release it. Today's pc's, even a middle end pc, like with a GTX 1660, would just over power the OG version.
Agreed, though they'd have to make it easier to unlock the frame rate without the game crashing. I think if you own the game then crack the exe (use a no cd patch) it works but I couldn't get it to work with CFG commands... But I agree they need to rerelease the OG game on Steam, I'd happily buy it for $10 AUD
@@MADagain it's bizarre that Gears Ultimate is so poorly optimized on PC because both gears 4 and Gears 5 are not just amazingly optimized for PC but legit done of the best pc optimization this generation. It's just strange it's so poor.
Exactly, worse case scenario, we have to rely on modders to make it as great (and most likely even better) to play. Just let us play the original games on PC. Gears 5 is on Steam and it plays great. Gears 4 is on PC and it works pretty fine. The problem is those games just suck
I don't pander to Game Developer norms, when something isn't right... I'll point it out! I'm glad someone noticed haha. Yeah I plan to do more of this style of video, but there's sooo many things I can't land on a new one. Though I've been feeling a little itch for Horizon Zero Dawn PC pricing verses console... Or maybe even some PC titles that just run like horse shit
@axel roz yep I played it years ago on xbox one x and wanted to max it out on pc but cant get a steady frame rate, it's insane its been like this since release
The problem started when Windows 10 updated to version 1809. Since then, the performance has been terrible in this game. We let Coalition know years ago and they are aware of it but they never fixed it. They deleted all of the original threads on the Gears of War forums that were complaining about it. I was very critical about on the forums and they banned me for 1000 years from the official forums... My forum ban will be up in 3019...
Yeah, not a very good move by the company. I'm pretty sure I even had a thread there also... But hey at least this is a game people will actively say runs like garbage. Compared to others on my Cyberpunk 2077 video, when a games broke or deemed unplayable the community shouldn't sit there and agree with that decision... At the end of the day it's on the developers to fix any issues that arise especially from Windows updates!?
I just downloaded this today. I thought on a 4090 laptop I’d be getting at least 200fps. It’s literally dipping below 60fps. I was shocked. How disappointing.
So about the 360/PC crossplay, is it possible to play Ranked matches with crossplay? So a Ranked match of whatever game mode and have a combined number of 360 and PC players?
No idea I was never able to confirm it or how to tell if players were on xbox or PC... if you're talking about the original game. However this isn't the original
@@MADagain I'm talking about the 2006/2007 releases, but Wikipedia says they never implemented crossplay. That text you show on the box mentions the crossplay only as an example of what could require Gold.
@@zingbanana I know, that's why I said I never tested it out because I don't have gold, I'd need 2 accounts as well. It was just something marketed with the game at the time I didn't know how to check or play with one console or pc players. Either way if it was real crossplay then it was the first of it's kind. Also it probably wouldn't work now because GFWL (games for windows live) no longer functions on PC as of 2023. So to answer you no you can't use cross play now. I also doubt Xbox would still have online services for the 360 let alone Gears 1... maybe if it was LAN
I love this game but it’s so fuckdd.. I don’t even see why they bothered to make pc version if they didn’t even bother to optimise 💆🏽🤯I hope they bring gow 2 on pc.. I hope
Well so basically, it is a Windows update that broke the game. With the latest Windows version (20H2) it runs terrible, just like the video shows. So what I did is create a separate partition and installed Windows 10 1709 on it. Then installed the bare minimum (gpu and sound drivers) and downloaded Gears of War UE via Windows Store and now the game performs like it should (and apparently used to). It still is far from perfect (random stuttering), but its playable now. It is still too much effort, but it you're like me and really want to replay it. This is basically the way to do it. BTW I used Rufus to create a bootable Windows 10 1709 USB stick.
That is what I wanted to do but if you own a current RX 7900 XT you are f****d because there is no driver compatible with Windows 10 1709. It is playable though on Adrenalin 23.2.1 and Windows 11. But with the newest Adrenalin 24.10.1 the framerate is all over the place with constant stuttering and extreme fps drops. I still own an old GTX 1060 6GB, gonna try the Windows 10 1709 fix there.
Not a perfect solution but Lossless Scaling helps with the sudden FPS drops. Can't use it fullscreen though and I noticed a bit of ghosting but the input lag is barely noticeable especially when using a controller.
Had this same issue that the gpu usage was low and it had bad performance even with high end hardware. However a month ago I tested it with 2 laptops (rtx 2080 and 2080 super) and the gpu usage was better and the fps was much better. The fps was low compared how much it should be and I only got avg 90 fps, however it was much better then the 40 fps that was before.
Sadly there's a few bugs and glitches that kept it from being a perfect remaster. But I don't remember if the shooting mechanics was off on the Xbox One as well on the PC. Recently I had tried to shoot without zoom in (scope zoom), and it goes top left nearly every time instead of actual random or straight in the middle of the crosshair. Heavily reminds me of The Last of us 1 (watched speedrun fails from that particular video where the speedrunner had the crosshair on target but the bullet went left instead). And I am thinking that they should've as well port Gears 2, gears 3 and gears judgement.
If Microsoft doesn’t care about Halo and Forza going to PC then the original Gears games should go there too.The OG trilogy are the GOW games people want to play anyway.
it reminds me of GTA 4 pc port, it ran poorly with stuttering then some genius told us to install dxvk because game ran poorly with that directx9 and it removed stuttering and game ran with 2x more fps, maybe there is same fix to this
oh if you want the worst performance go check out that room with the breaking floorboards my pc r5 2600 and a 1060 6gb it went down to like 15fps from 60
@fabienlaloy8422 Sadly your hope end here. Same the OG is unplayable. Just for the nostalgia I wanted to play Gears of War 1 on PC with the original but modern PC of today make it just impossible. Too much dark, blurry and the lightning is just very awful. Same with birghtness at maximum change nothing. Until the night part its doable but at moment you reach the part with Boomers and a little before that its just really really dark. its close trying play Doom 3 without the flashlight. You see nothing The game was perfect on a CRT Monitor but with a HD Monitor and the GPU we have now make it just impossible. You can test it but you will see its 1 unique case where a old PC game its just impossible to play it again. ON PC forget it. No clue however about Xbox 360 with modern TV if its more playable. Very sad. Microsoft its Microsoft bad like always and ruin game with bad port. Ultimate sadly its a failure on all the line.
@@lifegaming2737 Well I did eventually play the OG on PC and I must say i enjoyed the experience, but if I remember correctly I manually tweaked some aspects of the graphics to make the game more visually palatable.
Same as everyone here... Sadly the performance on windows 10 was never fixed by either Microsoft or the developers. Support for this game died or quicker than its release
Have you gone back and tried it recently from my experience it wasn’t this bad and I was playing 1440 high and didn’t experience FPS drops this bad stuttering wasn’t as bad either almost a constant 100+ FPS
Not recently no, however there was an article and a bunch of reddit posts talking about the performance differences with a specific version of Windows 10, so I don't see it ever being fixed unless whatever was messed with gets rectified or adjusted by the coalition in an update for the game... support for this title died out less than a month after it was released so I don't see any update or love from the developer moving forward, thus have zero interest in reusing the Windows Store to find out. Another title that was also suffering from weird problems was Quantum Break, I loved that game but it was a colossal failure when it came to performance and visual fidelity. I hold full priced AAA titles with more weight than lower budget games so that might be why this hit me a bit more than normal... although I have very fond memories playing Gears on Xbox 360 and getting it on PC and playing it on my old school laptop... so this one hit close to home with a big F OFF from the developers I think.
dude i love gears i played and beat 123 on all difficulties and went through two xbox 360s cause the models backed then overheated when played 2 days straight XD gears of war is what got me into gaming and i will always love 123 but i need to play judgement gears 4 and 5 but they look kinda unappealing though
Yeah I liked Judgement but like you said not the best... 4 and 5 feel like forced politically correct-ness. With female leads and stuff, plus the armour and the way the Gears look is more mainstream and not the proper Gears of War look... I also hate that they rebranded as Gears and not Gears of War!!!
How did you get the original Gears to work on Windows 10? This has been a frustration of mine. I've kept my original disk but I can't get the game to work now
started playing gears with my nephew recently and he loves it. thought i might get a better experience if i got the pc version cause the 360 version is kinda dated. this is very disappointing. thanks for the heads up
I was just about to buy this on sale now for $12 and just needed to search youtube on how it looks, your video came up in the top results and good thing I found it! Like you, I had a similar start to PC Gaming, I built my first computer solely to prepare for Gears of War PC and absolutely loved it. Was hoping to hit the nostalgia train with the Ultimate Edition but looks like I'll need to find my CD and depend on that. I remember that the CD key can only be inputted a certain number of times... I hope I remembered wrong or they've removed this limit by now. I'm still hoping for 2, 3 and Judgement for PC release as well. I hope it ride the momentum of Microsoft's other franchise collection: The Master Chief Collection
The biggest reason why it sucks is because every time enemies are loading in the game drops frames so bad. Every minute or so you have to deal with frame drop. I have a Radeon 6800 with a 3600x so the hardware is not the issue. Gears of war 4 and 5 run perfect even though it’s way more gpu intensive than ultimate edition. The game is still fun. Just have to live with massive frame drops every time you hit a checkpoint or the game is loading in enemies
They honestly should re-release Gears UE on steam and remaster Gears 2(atleast re-release Gears UE). When i bought Gears UE on microsoft store i was so hyped to play multiplayer but oh well.. its fucking dead :-D Great video btw! Edit: i also just emulated Gears 2 on xenia canary :p the game is running fine with my computer specs so far. though there is some frame rate drops.
Yeahhhh maybe then Gears UE will actually get the attention it deserves. But we can only dream... as for Xenia, yeahhh idk the emulation just freezes every few seconds in motion for me so I'm waiting for them to fix that but it's surprisingly playable. If people can do this in their free time imagine what Microsoft could do. It just annoys me sometimes haha
@@MADagain so here is something interesting you might wanna know when the game came out in 2016 it ran fine for me and i had some older hardware back then i was getting average of 80 fps i believe and my hardware was a gtx 980, i7 3770k,16 GB ram and then after a windows update the game ran like ass and this is something i found out on several online forums but the game really needs to be patched and i don't get why they haven't done it yet i feel scammed by them i mean i paid full price and it worked perfect for some time and now it doesn't oh yea and the windows 10 version it ran good on was version 1809 but i don't think you can get that anymore
@@nickjensen4385 Okkkk, I'll put that aside the time being as I will try to confirm that. As it's rather interesting to know that, thanks man. I have a few videos in the pipe at the moment but that could be a good follow up to this one actually
@@MADagain okay so i kinda fixed it i enabled v-sync and capped the fps to 60 and now im getting a steady 72 fps for some reason it caps at 72 fps even tho i set it to 60 there is stil some slow downs but it's now playable unlike before when it was uncapped and no v-sync the same area where i before would get a very unstable 50 ish fps it then locked to 72 fps i think it might be even better performance with the upcoming rtx 3080ti i will test it as im going to get it as soon as it's available oh yea and my current hardware is a rtx 2080 super ryzen 3800x and 16 gb ram and it's installed on a ssd
To be honest with you I don't know, I installed Windows 11 a month ago and with minor issues related to sound profile switching and general use being different I didn't keep Windows 11 installed for long... I might revisit that soon if it merits a video but I'm not going to hold my breath on that one.
I just started my playthrough on XGP and i thought its just me who gets awful performance but nope, its the game. 1660, R2600 and im getting 30 FPS. I never seen a worse port in my life.
I actually bought this on microsoft store last fortnight, wish i saw your video before though! Managed to get a refund however. According to some, the performance used to be a lot better but a windows update affected it. Either way the performance was really bad whenever the screen rendered any distance.
I hate the GFWL version of GOW. I remember being at the final boss and struggling to beat him. Out of nowhere, the game bugged out and erase all my saved data. Meaning, that if I stopped playing the final level, I would have been forced to play the game from the beginning. All my work undone. I refused to stop playing the game until I beaten it. After many tries, I did. I was so mad at the game because for once in my life something was really at stake during the final battle of a video game. Interesting video though. I was hoping that the Ultimate Edition On PC was a better version of the OG but I guess not...for now.
I would really like a Gears 2 and 3 remaster. I already have all the X360 Gears games on my XB1 S thanks to Gears 4 including the codes in the box for those games, but I play with my gaming laptop way more these days and I'd like to be able to move around places and still be able to play Gears 2, my favorite in the series. Xenia's still too early in development and it's not really optimized. I do hope they won't botch any potential remasters for those games. Hell, just a straight up port for Gears 3 should do since it still looks quite good. Just upscaling it make it look great but Gears 2 would probably need a bit more work. I was really disappointed with UE. I was hoping to buy it on PC and find the multiplayer active. Oh well.
@@aninfinitemindofmusicandreams Yeah I get you, I want the same thing but considering the way that The Coalition has treated the PC platform... with console level horseshit like "Dynamic Resolution" to avoid longer optimisation time during development and treating us as if 4K is a new "feature"?? I don't think I want them to touch anything Gears related on PC ever. Just look what they've done to the franchise since Gears 4... renaming the franchise and forcing female characters in the mix... not that it's an issue but it's very un-like Gears.
Microsoft is sitting on gold mine with the gears franchise, if they re release and remaster (two seperately) the gears games they will make a quick buck again.
From what I remember with the og port it was done in similar fashion as with the Bungie's og Halo ports. Which Epic licensed the engine and game code over to People Can Fly, then just pitch out to Microsoft as a loophole in their contract to release so many games. This ended up failing pretty much ended up resulting in people pirating the game, due to the Games For Windows Live and SafeDisc DRM, being highly being disliked years ago. Thus low sale figures on Microsoft's end and Epic had to replace the idea of ports over to making spinoff titles. (Judgment, Tactics, and early versions of Gears 4 came out from this.) As for the reason you couldn't play with other 360 users I can assume the way it was pitched had to deal with the big reason. Though at the same time it ran on a fork of the game\engine done by People Can Fly, so there is some extra content and more code changes that likely made it too drastic to release as a patch for the Xbox 360 game. During development on Gears 2 and 3 though it was tested as for internal crossplay for general Unreal Engine 3 testing. As for Gears of War Ultimate Edition's PC port I would assume it's likely just a mixture of it being a rushed game to utilize the early UWP and DirectX12 libraries, so a lot of extra work on updating application and shader behavior are an issue. The game does seem to use high resolution textures, but can only assume they didn't apply everything correctly as for max lod resolution for user-end settings. Same goes with some of the events happening relying heavily on level streaming, which works just fine on 360\PC. Though here it acts like it needs to recompile shaders every time it loads into a new area, which only ever happens under development builds.
Yeah, I have all of them on Xbox One anyway but yeah it does suck. Still surprised they haven't been ported to PC yet after the success of 4 and 5? Even though storywise they're not great haha
@@MADagain Wanted to play all 3 assumed they would have all been ported by now oh well I dont have an xbox one so wanted to play them through thought i was going crazy trying to play ultimate edition on PC those frames hurt me...
It still has issues but not as noticeable at locked framerates. Even the old ones don't really get a performance boost on Xbox one I notice as well... But oh well we can only hope one day they will improve haha
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We need a Gears Collection like Halo MCC. Remake the games and put it on Xbox Series and PC.
The original 3 are the best hands down
Yep, what I’ve been saying for years. I just picked up one of them old Gears of War game guides with a bundled in art book at a local vintage game shop and it really drove home how much I really want all the Gears games accessible on one disk/steam
@@grimacethedrummer8378 played the trilogy in the 360 days, moved to ps4 (and now have a ps5), but recently built a gaming pc.. would love to play some of my favorite 360 games when I was younger on pc that are optimized and updated good... I guess since no one has heard anything in a while about the older gears of war games, probably not coming
We don't all the games are on game pass and run at 60 frames per second with the series s or x boost. They still have multiplayer servers open and you can play on Xbox right now.
It’s sad. We’re getting the new titles on PC, but the new titles just aren’t good. All I want is Gears 1-3 on Steam, damnit! Why won’t you let me give you more of my money, Microsoft!?!
Yeah I don't understand it either, by the time they get ported or run on PC we'll have fully native 1080p or 4K emulation working...so it's kinda pointless but if they were remastered to support 1080p or higher and didn't require 120GB for the install haha
Microsoft sucks
if i was microsoft i would make a gears of war Marcus fenix collection witch would be gears 1,2,3,judgement
@@bland9876 I'm agree with you. it will be amazing, just like Master Chief collection. :)
Xenia Canary Jan 22nd 2021 can play gears 3 + RAAM Shadow DLC
They just need to release the OG version on steam. Just release it. No optimisation or wherever. Just release it. Today's pc's, even a middle end pc, like with a GTX 1660, would just over power the OG version.
Agreed, though they'd have to make it easier to unlock the frame rate without the game crashing. I think if you own the game then crack the exe (use a no cd patch) it works but I couldn't get it to work with CFG commands... But I agree they need to rerelease the OG game on Steam, I'd happily buy it for $10 AUD
@@MADagain it's bizarre that Gears Ultimate is so poorly optimized on PC because both gears 4 and Gears 5 are not just amazingly optimized for PC but legit done of the best pc optimization this generation. It's just strange it's so poor.
@@TheFly212 Yeahhhh, it was definitely designed for 30fps
Its all about the money. 30% fee on steam platform
Exactly, worse case scenario, we have to rely on modders to make it as great (and most likely even better) to play. Just let us play the original games on PC. Gears 5 is on Steam and it plays great. Gears 4 is on PC and it works pretty fine. The problem is those games just suck
This is a good video, I hope you compare more PC ports like this. I've seen many videos and you are the only one who got the points right.
I don't pander to Game Developer norms, when something isn't right... I'll point it out! I'm glad someone noticed haha.
Yeah I plan to do more of this style of video, but there's sooo many things I can't land on a new one.
Though I've been feeling a little itch for Horizon Zero Dawn PC pricing verses console... Or maybe even some PC titles that just run like horse shit
Even today its badly optimised and I still can't find a fix for the fps drops and low gpu and cpu usage
same here with rtx3060
@axel roz yep I played it years ago on xbox one x and wanted to max it out on pc but cant get a steady frame rate, it's insane its been like this since release
I'm playing it rn and I haven't had any issues with it at all. Just got past corpser
The problem started when Windows 10 updated to version 1809. Since then, the performance has been terrible in this game. We let Coalition know years ago and they are aware of it but they never fixed it. They deleted all of the original threads on the Gears of War forums that were complaining about it. I was very critical about on the forums and they banned me for 1000 years from the official forums... My forum ban will be up in 3019...
Yeah, not a very good move by the company. I'm pretty sure I even had a thread there also... But hey at least this is a game people will actively say runs like garbage.
Compared to others on my Cyberpunk 2077 video, when a games broke or deemed unplayable the community shouldn't sit there and agree with that decision... At the end of the day it's on the developers to fix any issues that arise especially from Windows updates!?
that'll teach those little S.O.B.s :^)
I just downloaded this today. I thought on a 4090 laptop I’d be getting at least 200fps. It’s literally dipping below 60fps. I was shocked. How disappointing.
Really? That's insane. What a mess
@@mindrover777 Yeah, it really is. It’s not just the PC version either. I read that it’s bad on the Xbox One as well.
@@ThreeFortySeven what a terrible port. Waiting for the next Xbox for a steady 120 fps.
Just emulate it with Xenia and it should work fine with your pc
it has a 2.5 out of 5 on the windows store and i cant find it on steam :( i just want the gears of war version of the master chief collection
So about the 360/PC crossplay, is it possible to play Ranked matches with crossplay? So a Ranked match of whatever game mode and have a combined number of 360 and PC players?
No idea I was never able to confirm it or how to tell if players were on xbox or PC... if you're talking about the original game. However this isn't the original
@@MADagain I'm talking about the 2006/2007 releases, but Wikipedia says they never implemented crossplay. That text you show on the box mentions the crossplay only as an example of what could require Gold.
@@zingbanana I know, that's why I said I never tested it out because I don't have gold, I'd need 2 accounts as well. It was just something marketed with the game at the time I didn't know how to check or play with one console or pc players. Either way if it was real crossplay then it was the first of it's kind. Also it probably wouldn't work now because GFWL (games for windows live) no longer functions on PC as of 2023. So to answer you no you can't use cross play now. I also doubt Xbox would still have online services for the 360 let alone Gears 1... maybe if it was LAN
Literally tried playing it on ultra and the frame rate was so bad
I love this game but it’s so fuckdd.. I don’t even see why they bothered to make pc version if they didn’t even bother to optimise 💆🏽🤯I hope they bring gow 2 on pc.. I hope
so is their anyway I Can play gears on pc without it being a laggy mess?
Not really, besides turning every graphics open down... Don't think the Dev plans to fix it anytime soon
Well so basically, it is a Windows update that broke the game. With the latest Windows version (20H2) it runs terrible, just like the video shows. So what I did is create a separate partition and installed Windows 10 1709 on it. Then installed the bare minimum (gpu and sound drivers) and downloaded Gears of War UE via Windows Store and now the game performs like it should (and apparently used to). It still is far from perfect (random stuttering), but its playable now.
It is still too much effort, but it you're like me and really want to replay it. This is basically the way to do it. BTW I used Rufus to create a bootable Windows 10 1709 USB stick.
Yeahhhh it would be way to much of a hassle and it should have been fixed by Microsoft...
That is what I wanted to do but if you own a current RX 7900 XT you are f****d because there is no driver compatible with Windows 10 1709.
It is playable though on Adrenalin 23.2.1 and Windows 11. But with the newest Adrenalin 24.10.1 the framerate is all over the place with constant stuttering and extreme fps drops.
I still own an old GTX 1060 6GB, gonna try the Windows 10 1709 fix there.
Not a perfect solution but Lossless Scaling helps with the sudden FPS drops. Can't use it fullscreen though and I noticed a bit of ghosting but the input lag is barely noticeable especially when using a controller.
Thanks. I was downloading Gears UE on Game Pass again, but it seems like the game still runs like trash. I'd rather not play it in 30 fps...
Yeah, it seems like it was designed with 30fps lock in mind
They need to release a patch . Even a 7800x3d and a 4090 frame rate barely gets above 60 fps
Had this same issue that the gpu usage was low and it had bad performance even with high end hardware. However a month ago I tested it with 2 laptops (rtx 2080 and 2080 super) and the gpu usage was better and the fps was much better. The fps was low compared how much it should be and I only got avg 90 fps, however it was much better then the 40 fps that was before.
Sadly there's a few bugs and glitches that kept it from being a perfect remaster. But I don't remember if the shooting mechanics was off on the Xbox One as well on the PC. Recently I had tried to shoot without zoom in (scope zoom), and it goes top left nearly every time instead of actual random or straight in the middle of the crosshair. Heavily reminds me of The Last of us 1 (watched speedrun fails from that particular video where the speedrunner had the crosshair on target but the bullet went left instead).
And I am thinking that they should've as well port Gears 2, gears 3 and gears judgement.
If Microsoft doesn’t care about Halo and Forza going to PC then the original Gears games should go there too.The OG trilogy are the GOW games people want to play anyway.
Was Gears of War 4 on Steam at one point? Because if so, I can't find it anymore. Maybe I'm just dumb or I'm imagining that it was ever on Steam.
Nope just gears 5
it reminds me of GTA 4 pc port, it ran poorly with stuttering then some genius told us to install dxvk because game ran poorly with that directx9 and it removed stuttering and game ran with 2x more fps, maybe there is same fix to this
How to can play this game?
In xbox say only for console
oh if you want the worst performance go check out that room with the breaking floorboards my pc r5 2600 and a 1060 6gb it went down to like 15fps from 60
my friend and i kept 60 fps on just to see how bad the drops could get
Yeahhhhh it's definitely a rough egg
Sooo at this point, would you guys recommand playing the OG over the UE regarding those performance issues (especially on a pretty average config) ?
Yeah, if you can pick up the OG version get that over the UE version 100%
@@MADagain Will do, thanks a lot !
@@MADagain what is OG version
@fabienlaloy8422 Sadly your hope end here. Same the OG is unplayable. Just for the nostalgia I wanted to play Gears of War 1 on PC with the original but modern PC of today make it just impossible. Too much dark, blurry and the lightning is just very awful. Same with birghtness at maximum change nothing. Until the night part its doable but at moment you reach the part with Boomers and a little before that its just really really dark. its close trying play Doom 3 without the flashlight. You see nothing The game was perfect on a CRT Monitor but with a HD Monitor and the GPU we have now make it just impossible. You can test it but you will see its 1 unique case where a old PC game its just impossible to play it again. ON PC forget it. No clue however about Xbox 360 with modern TV if its more playable. Very sad. Microsoft its Microsoft bad like always and ruin game with bad port. Ultimate sadly its a failure on all the line.
@@lifegaming2737 Well I did eventually play the OG on PC and I must say i enjoyed the experience, but if I remember correctly I manually tweaked some aspects of the graphics to make the game more visually palatable.
Sucks cause it doesn't work with 20xx/30xx cards. They actually never fixed it to works with them. Ran great on my 1070 though
Huh...
man and I was looking forward to replaying this on pc lol
Same as everyone here... Sadly the performance on windows 10 was never fixed by either Microsoft or the developers. Support for this game died or quicker than its release
@@MADagain yep sucks after all this time it was never fixed. guess ill stick with gears 5 for now lol
@@f72638 yeah, that reminds me I need to reinstall that. Thank you kindly haha
@@MADagain definitely hop back on it lol ive been having fun again myself
@@f72638 will do, I remember slaying in that game haha
Have you gone back and tried it recently from my experience it wasn’t this bad and I was playing 1440 high and didn’t experience FPS drops this bad stuttering wasn’t as bad either almost a constant 100+ FPS
Not recently no, however there was an article and a bunch of reddit posts talking about the performance differences with a specific version of Windows 10, so I don't see it ever being fixed unless whatever was messed with gets rectified or adjusted by the coalition in an update for the game... support for this title died out less than a month after it was released so I don't see any update or love from the developer moving forward, thus have zero interest in reusing the Windows Store to find out.
Another title that was also suffering from weird problems was Quantum Break, I loved that game but it was a colossal failure when it came to performance and visual fidelity. I hold full priced AAA titles with more weight than lower budget games so that might be why this hit me a bit more than normal... although I have very fond memories playing Gears on Xbox 360 and getting it on PC and playing it on my old school laptop... so this one hit close to home with a big F OFF from the developers I think.
dude i love gears i played and beat 123 on all difficulties and went through two xbox 360s cause the models backed then overheated when played 2 days straight XD gears of war is what got me into gaming and i will always love 123 but i need to play judgement gears 4 and 5 but they look kinda unappealing though
Yeah I liked Judgement but like you said not the best... 4 and 5 feel like forced politically correct-ness. With female leads and stuff, plus the armour and the way the Gears look is more mainstream and not the proper Gears of War look... I also hate that they rebranded as Gears and not Gears of War!!!
I just had a pleasant time throughout the whole game. surprisingly the only time I noticed any sort of frame drop was when we had to fight the brumak.
Yeah, this thing is messy on my 9900k 2080 rig. On the flip side, the OG version runs amazing on my DFI Lanparty rig with a 980x and a GTX 480.
How did you get the original Gears to work on Windows 10? This has been a frustration of mine. I've kept my original disk but I can't get the game to work now
started playing gears with my nephew recently and he loves it. thought i might get a better experience if i got the pc version cause the 360 version is kinda dated.
this is very disappointing. thanks for the heads up
kinda sucks that this is the only way im capable of replaying this game in 2021
Is it worth playing the games in PC through xbox cloud gaming?.
I was just about to buy this on sale now for $12 and just needed to search youtube on how it looks, your video came up in the top results and good thing I found it! Like you, I had a similar start to PC Gaming, I built my first computer solely to prepare for Gears of War PC and absolutely loved it. Was hoping to hit the nostalgia train with the Ultimate Edition but looks like I'll need to find my CD and depend on that. I remember that the CD key can only be inputted a certain number of times... I hope I remembered wrong or they've removed this limit by now.
I'm still hoping for 2, 3 and Judgement for PC release as well. I hope it ride the momentum of Microsoft's other franchise collection: The Master Chief Collection
What kind of graphics card do you have? I'm about to try this game on Game Pass with my Ryzen 5 3600x and RX 5600 XT build
you up to play? i got it from game pass the other day to see if people still play it and it's dead.
@@rainpl0t it's been dead on xbox since gears 4 came out as well
Hi pal. Its still has problems? On last update of win10
Yep, it's a game issue not Windows issue
@@MADagain ty pal. Wish you luck and stay safe
The biggest reason why it sucks is because every time enemies are loading in the game drops frames so bad. Every minute or so you have to deal with frame drop. I have a Radeon 6800 with a 3600x so the hardware is not the issue. Gears of war 4 and 5 run perfect even though it’s way more gpu intensive than ultimate edition. The game is still fun. Just have to live with massive frame drops every time you hit a checkpoint or the game is loading in enemies
They honestly should re-release Gears UE on steam and remaster Gears 2(atleast re-release Gears UE). When i bought Gears UE on microsoft store i was so hyped to play multiplayer but oh well.. its fucking dead :-D Great video btw! Edit: i also just emulated Gears 2 on xenia canary :p the game is running fine with my computer specs so far. though there is some frame rate drops.
Yeahhhh maybe then Gears UE will actually get the attention it deserves. But we can only dream... as for Xenia, yeahhh idk the emulation just freezes every few seconds in motion for me so I'm waiting for them to fix that but it's surprisingly playable. If people can do this in their free time imagine what Microsoft could do. It just annoys me sometimes haha
@@MADagain so here is something interesting you might wanna know when the game came out in 2016 it ran fine for me and i had some older hardware back then i was getting average of 80 fps i believe and my hardware was a gtx 980, i7 3770k,16 GB ram and then after a windows update the game ran like ass and this is something i found out on several online forums but the game really needs to be patched and i don't get why they haven't done it yet i feel scammed by them i mean i paid full price and it worked perfect for some time and now it doesn't oh yea and the windows 10 version it ran good on was version 1809 but i don't think you can get that anymore
@@nickjensen4385 Okkkk, I'll put that aside the time being as I will try to confirm that. As it's rather interesting to know that, thanks man. I have a few videos in the pipe at the moment but that could be a good follow up to this one actually
@@MADagain okay so i kinda fixed it i enabled v-sync and capped the fps to 60 and now im getting a steady 72 fps for some reason it caps at 72 fps even tho i set it to 60 there is stil some slow downs but it's now playable unlike before when it was uncapped and no v-sync the same area where i before would get a very unstable 50 ish fps it then locked to 72 fps i think it might be even better performance with the upcoming rtx 3080ti i will test it as im going to get it as soon as it's available oh yea and my current hardware is a rtx 2080 super ryzen 3800x and 16 gb ram and it's installed on a ssd
@@MADagain the original pc version stil runs better tho !!
What is your system specs?
Windows 11 doesn't fix the problem?
To be honest with you I don't know, I installed Windows 11 a month ago and with minor issues related to sound profile switching and general use being different I didn't keep Windows 11 installed for long... I might revisit that soon if it merits a video but I'm not going to hold my breath on that one.
No, unfortunately.
It sucks I had a physical copy of Gears of War for Windows and bought the Ultimate edition thinking it would be smooth like Gears 5
I miss this game :( btw great video I really loved it :)
I guess I just bit the bullet with buying this, I assumed multiplayer wouldn’t work but if it is going to run like crap, what’s the point?
Bro was there ever a fix
so i cant play gears 1 on pc??
You can... but you won't enjoy it lol
@@MADagain oh ok. I found a discord that plays it but it’s like the og version of you want in
I just started my playthrough on XGP and i thought its just me who gets awful performance but nope, its the game. 1660, R2600 and im getting 30 FPS. I never seen a worse port in my life.
There are rumors now that the Gears game are getting a ''MCC style'' remaster, let's see if they are going to fix this game now.
You can play gow3 on pc with early builds, the one from may 2011 isn't bad at all quite polished
Framerate is garbage, if you mean the emulated version
@@MADagain nah there’s a build called jacinto on PC mate
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I actually bought this on microsoft store last fortnight, wish i saw your video before though! Managed to get a refund however. According to some, the performance used to be a lot better but a windows update affected it. Either way the performance was really bad whenever the screen rendered any distance.
Nice, good to hear I can help :)
GoW was the reason I vowed never to buy any console ever. Terrible business model.
They run fine on the consoles though
Gears of war 2 was one of my favorite games as a kid but now I just want them to leave it alone
Yeah, if it's not the same formula and design with improvements... It's not as good. The new Gears games are fun but I don't think they're Gears
how did u menage to get 100 fps in this shit I am getting 20-40 with 2080 ti lol
Huh?
I hate the GFWL version of GOW. I remember being at the final boss and struggling to beat him. Out of nowhere, the game bugged out and erase all my saved data. Meaning, that if I stopped playing the final level, I would have been forced to play the game from the beginning. All my work undone. I refused to stop playing the game until I beaten it. After many tries, I did. I was so mad at the game because for once in my life something was really at stake during the final battle of a video game.
Interesting video though. I was hoping that the Ultimate Edition On PC was a better version of the OG but I guess not...for now.
Same thing happened to me while I was playing on Insane, just gotten past the Theron Guards and the game crashed and erased all of my save data
@@inactiveuser4004 glad to hear that I am not the only one.
So is it worth playing this on pc?
Probably not unless you wanna lock it to 30fps, just get it on Xbox I'd say
doesnt even work for me!
I would really like a Gears 2 and 3 remaster. I already have all the X360 Gears games on my XB1 S thanks to Gears 4 including the codes in the box for those games, but I play with my gaming laptop way more these days and I'd like to be able to move around places and still be able to play Gears 2, my favorite in the series. Xenia's still too early in development and it's not really optimized.
I do hope they won't botch any potential remasters for those games. Hell, just a straight up port for Gears 3 should do since it still looks quite good. Just upscaling it make it look great but Gears 2 would probably need a bit more work. I was really disappointed with UE. I was hoping to buy it on PC and find the multiplayer active. Oh well.
All gears games are cross platform now so the 360 versions can play on Xbox One... doubt we'll see them remade or a "remaster" as you put it
@@MADagain A remaster for the sake of a PC port is why I want it. And a proper PC port at that, not like UE.
@@aninfinitemindofmusicandreams Yeah I get you, I want the same thing but considering the way that The Coalition has treated the PC platform... with console level horseshit like "Dynamic Resolution" to avoid longer optimisation time during development and treating us as if 4K is a new "feature"?? I don't think I want them to touch anything Gears related on PC ever.
Just look what they've done to the franchise since Gears 4... renaming the franchise and forcing female characters in the mix... not that it's an issue but it's very un-like Gears.
It used to run fine, a windows and nvidia update fucked it
Its obviously that devs portet IT way to quickly to make mends on PC IT seems you might es well play Xbox with 4K
May as well just run the original version with emulation on the Xbox...
It's looks like it works on PC on multiplayer have they fixed it@@MADagain
It's sad they didn't even bother releasing the rest of the Gears of War Series on PC Gears 5 is ass
Yeah, well it was because of CliffyB originally haha
Dom doesn't follow you somtimes
And there are bugs in act 1
...ok?
Microsoft is sitting on gold mine with the gears franchise, if they re release and remaster (two seperately) the gears games they will make a quick buck again.
From what I remember with the og port it was done in similar fashion as with the Bungie's og Halo ports. Which Epic licensed the engine and game code over to People Can Fly, then just pitch out to Microsoft as a loophole in their contract to release so many games. This ended up failing pretty much ended up resulting in people pirating the game, due to the Games For Windows Live and SafeDisc DRM, being highly being disliked years ago. Thus low sale figures on Microsoft's end and Epic had to replace the idea of ports over to making spinoff titles. (Judgment, Tactics, and early versions of Gears 4 came out from this.)
As for the reason you couldn't play with other 360 users I can assume the way it was pitched had to deal with the big reason. Though at the same time it ran on a fork of the game\engine done by People Can Fly, so there is some extra content and more code changes that likely made it too drastic to release as a patch for the Xbox 360 game. During development on Gears 2 and 3 though it was tested as for internal crossplay for general Unreal Engine 3 testing.
As for Gears of War Ultimate Edition's PC port I would assume it's likely just a mixture of it being a rushed game to utilize the early UWP and DirectX12 libraries, so a lot of extra work on updating application and shader behavior are an issue. The game does seem to use high resolution textures, but can only assume they didn't apply everything correctly as for max lod resolution for user-end settings. Same goes with some of the events happening relying heavily on level streaming, which works just fine on 360\PC. Though here it acts like it needs to recompile shaders every time it loads into a new area, which only ever happens under development builds.
They brought entire halo series on steam... why can they bring gears 1-3 ??? Microsoft are fuckdd fml
im just an old man looking to play populated GOW1 servers, it shouldn't be this poor :/
So jarring for any PC player to play Gears 1, then go straight to 4.
Yeah, I have all of them on Xbox One anyway but yeah it does suck. Still surprised they haven't been ported to PC yet after the success of 4 and 5? Even though storywise they're not great haha
@@MADagain Wanted to play all 3 assumed they would have all been ported by now oh well I dont have an xbox one so wanted to play them through thought i was going crazy trying to play ultimate edition on PC those frames hurt me...
I don't recommend this version at all. I played the original many times and this remake is super buggy. The Xbox One version is not bad though.
It still has issues but not as noticeable at locked framerates. Even the old ones don't really get a performance boost on Xbox one I notice as well... But oh well we can only hope one day they will improve haha
This game is shit i'm using 3090 and still get drops down to 40's
Most poorly optimised game I've ever played.
make a video about the last of us pc port 😊
Don't worry I'm about to hahaha, haven't played it yet though
Runs great on my rog ally 😂
Sure it does...
I didn't find this video entertaining...I found it frustrating. But it's not your fault...it's Microsoft's!
It still hurts mate, a developer that leaves their old software in the dust is no developer I want to continue to support IMO
All this time later km here to report a solid 60 FPS with a 3070 over clocked
"...the best way to play Gears of War yet." - The Verge
lol
I don't trust anything from the verge.
I don't trust anything said by mainstream reviewers, haven't for ages haha