Gears of War 4

polonyc2 said:
so Amazon was selling fake keys with their GPU's?...how did this happen?...Amazon is usually very easy to deal with so can't they just send you another key?
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You are not understanding the situation. People were buying Nvidia codes from ebay and some of those ended up being revoked keys. All I can do is get a refund from paypal.
 
misterbobby said:
You are not understanding the situation. People were buying Nvidia codes from ebay and some of those ended up being revoked keys. All I can do is get a refund from paypal.
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I just read about it online...looks like people who cancelled their orders of the game were still getting keys sent out to them...so the keys are legit it's just that people are trying to be shady and Nvidia is just revoking a bunch of legit keys
 
I preordered, updated windows 10 and I still can't get the game to preload.
 
I got a note from MS thanking me for being a fan (I've bought 4-5 Gears games for various platforms) and giving me some sort of DLC pack. Still not pre-ordering in case the port is a hot mess, but it's at least something.
 
How in the hell does Microsoft make an operating system when they can't even make a properly functioning store where you can simply download a game without a s*** ton of issues. I'm sick and f****** tired of all the error messages and then having to restart downloads from scratch for this game.
 
Yeah, the Anniversary update doesn't play nice with the current install.
Kinda forces you to update to something you don't want just to play a game.
 
Sardaan said:
what the actual f@#k?


What the actual f#$k?
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LOL

Do you mean like an entire clean Windows install with the update pre-patched into it? I hope not. People will be asking for refunds because uh Windows basically forced that update on us all already anyway.
 
I left it running all day and every time it got near the end it would just start re downloading from scratch again. That is 3 days straight of bullshit that is eating up my download cap and accomplishing nothing. THESE GOD DAMN ISSUES NEED TO BE FIXED.
 
Can't pre-load. All it says is that we fucked up. Try again later. No real fix seems like it.
Oh well, it will be a long download on the day of the release. Good that I have it downpumped on my XBONER.
 
delita said:
LOL

Do you mean like an entire clean Windows install with the update pre-patched into it? I hope not. People will be asking for refunds because uh Windows basically forced that update on us all already anyway.
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Yes but the Anniversary patch is applied right after the clean install, manually in the System Update area. People will continue to run into issues until they do a clean install.
This is what I had to do to get Forza 3 working. All of the fixes to the MS store will only work with the Anniversary update after a clean install.

Just trying to help.
 
WorldExclusive said:
Yes but the Anniversary patch is applied right after the clean install, manually in the System Update area. People will continue to run into issues until they do a clean install.
This is what I had to do to get Forza 3 working. All of the fixes to the MS store will only work with the Anniversary update after a clean install.

Just trying to help.
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Definitely not doing a clean install of Windows just for this game. Maybe we'll get lucky and it'll come to Steam later like Quantum Break did. This just made my choice between Mafia 3 / GoW 4 very easy.
 
GTX 1080 tearing Gears of War 4 up!
Gears of War 4 Graphics & Performance Guide

Guess it's time for whatever the next gen is called!

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Sean Pelletier explains that Insane settings are for SLi and future graphics cards that haven't come out. So no crying guys about the performance when choosing Insane in the settings! :)

Article reference in tweets where the developer explains this.
Gears of War 4 reveals offline LAN, free matchmaking DLC, smooth 4K on PC

I also jacked up settings beyond my rig's near-ultra default and dropped the resolution to 1440p, which still looked gorgeous and rocked a 60fps refresh. I didn't have as much luck pushing some of the settings into the menus' crazy-high "insane" setting, which might be because, according to Raynor, that setting has been offered for future systems and SLI power users: "The game will scale with new hardware that will come out," he said. "You need a really high spec to get in there. It looks awesome, but it's very GPU-hungry." (While I couldn't test Raynor's assertions that the game has been optimized to make the most of SLI graphics card performance, he insisted that users would see substantial boosts if they double-card.)


 
I bet this game never makes it to Steam which Quantum Break just did. I think it's in the same Microsoft Box as Halo 5.
 
Comixbooks said:
I bet this game never makes it to Steam which Quantum Break just did. I think it's in the same Microsoft Box as Halo 5.
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The Gears IP is wholly owned by Microsoft, unlike Quantum Break. If I were a betting man I'd say we're never going to see Gears 4 on anything but the Windows Store.
 
All of these new "Games for Windows" like Forza Horizon 3 and Gears of War 4 don't mean a damn if you can't even play them due to all the issues! :rage:
 
Not sure if I'll go for 1080p with details cranked or 4K with things turned down a bit. All other things equal, they look pretty damn close in most other games.
 

Might be the best optimized game yet to be released on Windows Store. Sounds promising. I checked out the geforce website and it appears my gtx780 may give 50 fps 1080p ultra details. EDIT: maybe 60 fps since 960 50 fps and 970 70 fps, and 780 is in-between those two.
 
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cageymaru said:
I also jacked up settings beyond my rig's near-ultra default and dropped the resolution to 1440p, which still looked gorgeous and rocked a 60fps refresh. I didn't have as much luck pushing some of the settings into the menus' crazy-high "insane" setting, which might be because, according to Raynor, that setting has been offered for future systems and SLI power users: "The game will scale with new hardware that will come out," he said. "You need a really high spec to get in there. It looks awesome, but it's very GPU-hungry." (While I couldn't test Raynor's assertions that the game has been optimized to make the most of SLI graphics card performance, he insisted that users would see substantial boosts if they double-card.)
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So wait, will this be the first UWP Microsoft store game to ACTUALLY take advantage of SLI?
 
Armenius said:
Early benchmarks show no SLI support... Then again, the new driver comes out today.
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multi-gpu support is coming after launch. It'll be using direct x 12's native MGPU capability. (they say that the Ultimate Edition of Gears of War 1 will also be getting mgpu support around the same time as gears 4)
 
Anyone get the ultimate edition and plan on playing this weekend?

No preload issues here. Sucks some folks are having problems with the preloading.
 
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If anyone is having trouble downloading the game, try running Disk Cleanup and checking Delivery Optimization Files.
 
Andrmgic said:
multi-gpu support is coming after launch. It'll be using direct x 12's native MGPU capability. (they say that the Ultimate Edition of Gears of War 1 will also be getting mgpu support around the same time as gears 4)
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I'll be surprised if they actually follow through with this.
 
Well it looks like I am never going to get the god damn game installed. It either gives an error after a while or just starts the download over again. I have used up nearly 400 fucking GB trying to dl the game this week. Fuck Microsoft and their shitty Windows Store and fuck the Coalition for not helping get this bullshit resolved.
 
I want to buy an Nvidia key for this game...have the issues with Nvidia revoking keys been resolved?
 
Holy crap. Many people have reported problems downloading this game. Does Microsoft Store support download resuming like Steam? I can't afford to download-redownload-redownload as I have a capped internet.
 
I'm glad they removed that crappy intentional grain/blur effect from the first game...everything looks much more crisp and detailed in this one

Gears of War 4 PC 4K 60 FPS MP Gameplay [GTX 1070]

 
Um yeah. Games for windows and it's previous software has always sucked big donkey balls. I recall DRM issues in the past which made games like batman unplayable unless you bypassed all of the windows crap. No idea why the creator of the operating sya can't get something like downloading right but yeah. They suck.
 
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