Gears of war possible problem

M0T · 30 Nov 2006 at 16:27

I have noticed with gears of war everything loads up with really poor ps1 style textures and then slowly over the course of the next minute or so they gradually sharpen up.

Also a few times when I have joined co-op games on the net textures have just not loaded at all and I have ended up being able to see through walls (but the player models didn't load either so it didn't help).

Is this just a bug with the game or do I have a problem elsewhere?

Booner! · 30 Nov 2006 at 16:29

i get this, its much like the halo 2 pop in textures.... I originally thought it was a heat problem :confused:

M0T · 30 Nov 2006 at 16:33

I was thinking it might be the disc drive since it seems to go mental in GOW, but if its not just me it must be a game bug.

GuruJockStrap · 30 Nov 2006 at 16:34

Its just the textures being loaded into system memory. I heard that the defrag tip for Oblivion can help. Forogt how you do it though!

Mine does that sometimes at the start of (mainly) online maps. After a few seconds its soon back to high texture glory.

fergie666 · 30 Nov 2006 at 16:42

havent had any prob here. i had this prob with san andreas on the ps2, but never got it sorted

fergie666 · 30 Nov 2006 at 16:44

M0T said:
I was thinking it might be the disc drive since it seems to go mental in GOW, but if its not just me it must be a game bug.

in what way does it go mental ? i find gow to be quieter than other games i have, in terms of disc noise

Cronox · 30 Nov 2006 at 16:46

GuruJockStrap said:
Mine does that sometimes at the start of (mainly) online maps. After a few seconds its soon back to high texture glory.

Same with me, only really seen it in online games and it normally only takes a second or so to load correctly.

M0T · 30 Nov 2006 at 17:29

fergie666 said:
in what way does it go mental ? i find gow to be quieter than other games i have, in terms of disc noise

Its constantly accessing the drive during GOW, you can hear it going.

I have a launch 360 and I read somewhere that they are known for having noisy dvd drives.

Robert · 30 Nov 2006 at 17:44

It's not a problem. It's just the game textures are rather large, hence need to be loaded. You can't expect miracles with 512mb of ram, christ BF2 probably wouldn't run on that (well actually it hardly does as I've tried). You also have to factor textures coming off the disk.

Puzzled · 30 Nov 2006 at 17:55

Yeah I was a bit concerned the 1st time I saw it, but thinking about it I prefer it loading the game quickly and the update textures as it plays rather than watching it say "Loading" for ages.

dannyjo22 · 30 Nov 2006 at 17:59

I get the same but only for a max of a second. Usually just online.