Gears of War takes over an hour to install.

Robert1986 · 28 Oct 2007 at 20:59

I was watching the latest ON THE SPOT on gamespot.com and they were playing GOW for the PC. The guy playing it said it took over an hour to install on his system (quad core, 8800 ultra).

Just thought i'd point this out as its pretty extreme for an install time.

fail at the internets · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:02

Maybe his hard drive's from 1988.

smithy83 · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:07

uh reminds me of installing world of warcraft

Beerbaron · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:12

depends on how many floppy discs it came with

an hr does seem a little extreme

Hobgoblin · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:22

M2 kingdoms took me 6 hours. 1 hour seems fine for me.

FerociouS · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:28

How big is the game on your Harddrive after installing?

Company of Heroes and Opposing fronts is about just over 6GB and they took about 10-15minutes to install, felt like ages though.

Darkwave · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:29

I call rubbish. Doesn't take that long to decompress and copy a good few tens of gigabytes worth of data, never mind however big that will be (1-2 discs as the 360 version was 1, so probably 1.)

Hobgoblin · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:30

4GB

ive installed much larger games, in about 10/15 minutes as well. its a weird thing, it happened to one of my clan members but none of the others. his install took 5 hours, everyone else was done in about 20 mins

FerociouS · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:32

Hobgoblin said:
4GB ive installed much larger games, in about 10/15 minutes as well. its a weird thing, it happened to one of my clan members but none of the others. his install took 5 hours, everyone else was done in about 20 mins

5hours, bloody ell, sounds like hardware issues to me.

skullman · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:35

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

Revolution6000 · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:36

If it takes an hour, it takes an hour, got plenty of things I could do in that time.

Talrinys · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:41

Which is good evidence of the need for more effective I/O today, processor speeds are definitely not what's holding that install back, too slow harddrives / bad architecture is. Vista is horrible I/O wise anyway.

neocon · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:43

same as John Woo game, which also needs 12gb to install

jabski · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:45

Beerbaron said:
depends on how many floppy discs it came with

an hr does seem a little extreme

lol

Maybe this will speed things up

skullman · 28 Oct 2007 at 21:46

neocon said:
same as John Woo game, which also needs 12gb to install

Well if the 360 version fills a dvd then its to be expected really, what with the higher res textures and extra content etc.

PurpleDinosaur · 28 Oct 2007 at 22:00

Revolution6000 said:
If it takes an hour, it takes an hour, got plenty of things I could do in that time.

That's what I was thinking, it's not like you have to sit and watch it install.

phatboy · 28 Oct 2007 at 22:01

skullman said:
System Requirements:
OS: Windows Vista or Windows XP

oooh cool, i thought this was just gonna be Vista only

Kipper67 · 28 Oct 2007 at 22:16

So much for Vista's "tray and play" and the games for windows initiative's features then :rolleyes:

Muzy · 28 Oct 2007 at 22:20

Beerbaron said:
depends on how many floppy discs it came with

an hr does seem a little extreme

ehehe, LOL.

Darkwave · 28 Oct 2007 at 22:25

skullman said:
Hard Drive: 12 GB free hard drive space

Not a lot, definitely not an hour's work.

I'd be surprised if it was fifteen minutes.