Renegade8100's guide to getting gears of war to finally work with the most common problems experienced: So you went out and purchased GOW for the PC in hopes that you would be able to get to destroying all life and basking in the glory of battle; but oh wait! It crashes 1 minute to turning the game on! Guess what kiddies, we have a fix. If you have made any modifications in attempt to repair the game, I suggest you reinstall the game(yes i know it sucks to wait 45 min to reinstall, to remedy this go to to pass the time). Nov 06, 2007 For Gears of War on the PC, a GameFAQs message board topic titled 'double click startup.exe to play GoW'. ![]() There are many different problems pertaining to different circumstances on this particular issue. We have Microsoft Live jacking off, we have Windows Vista jacking off, and then we have both at the same time in unison. FIRST AND FOREMOST ALWAYS EXECUTE THE GAME MANUALLY, NOT OFF THE DVD OR YOU WILL MOST LIKELY FAIL IN YOUR ENDEAVORS!!! Create a shortcut from the 'startup' in 'C: Program Files Microsoft Games Gears of War Binaries Startup.exe' on your desktop to resolve loading off dvd issue. If you are experiencing the 1 minute on execution crash, you will want to ignore everyone who has a 'fix' and download and install this: Games for Windows - LIVE Redistributable v1.2 If downloading this does not work, and i guarantee it will resolve the very well known windows live update disaster on gears of war and other live games, you will want to do the following: Go into windows firewall, go to exceptions, and add the C: Program Files (x86) Microsoft Games Gears of War Binaries Wargame g4wlive.exe to the list along with startup.exe in the same folder. If you are having UAC problems with Vista, right click on the newly created Icon shortcut and run as administrator. Finally if you are still experiencing issues. TURN OFF YOUR ANTI VIRUS OR 3rd PARTY FIREWALL, or if you are more experienced, create exceptions like you will want to do with windows firewall. Microsoft Live Sign in issues: That is strictly Microsoft's servers and not your PC, so just be patient. Microsoft free gold membership trial issues: They will swear your key works, but it doesn't 99% of the time, so just use silver or buy gold. (this does not pertain to existing gold members) Good luck, and I look forward to kicking your ass online.;-) This is not a saved game fix, saved games for live customers are stored in the microsoft server. Updating the game and windows live will erase or corrupted local and server saved games, i do not know why.
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