Gears Of War Screen Tear-Fixed on GTX260-216

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Been playing it again today after getting a GTX260-216 and happy to report that the screen tearing which previously ruined it is totally gone on 180.48 under Vista DX10 mode. Also the AA now works as well so Nvidia have been busy quietly fixing things it would appear. FPS are also very high now:D and the game feels very fluid in motion.

You can fix this on ATI as well by forcing vsync in D3D Overrider but that also disables the LIVE achievements as it detects it as a cheating tool:(

Whether this is fixed or not or as a direct result of GTX260-216 being able to pump more FPS out now I do not know as GOW has a dynamic FPS calculator which drops Vsync if the FPS drops below 30 via an ini file script (which you cannot change as the game will not launch otherwise as Epic have overprotected the game from ini tweaks yet could not patch the savegame bug could they:eek: Saves do not get lost now but you need to be signed into LIVE so obviously need your retail serial number).
 
Are you sure that D3DO blocks the achievement's because the tearing is bad as you say with the silly built-in Vsync feature.

Have you got any links that confirms this as i don't want to find out first hand :)

I have googled & found nothing.
 
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Final8y said:
Are you sure that D3DO blocks the achievement's because the tearing is bad as you say with the silly built-in Vsync feature.

Have you got any links that confirms this as i don't want to find out first hand :)

I have googled & found nothing.
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Positive as if Windows LIVE detects anything running in the background which is not a windows process but is making calls to the game it bombs out after a while. Tried playing a few online matches with D3DO running and it kept CTDing then with no D3DO it was rock solid and never CTDed. Now I cannot unlock the Insane mode as I have completed it 3 times on hard mode but it will not unlock the Achievements for doing this or the Insane mode. Apparently Windows LIVE performs frequent checks on what is running in the background to prevent people from using trainers or other cheats. This is why any trainers on cheathappens for Windows LIVE games crash all the time as no-one has found a way to be logged into LIVE whilst running trainers in the background.

It sucks that they went to all this trouble especially as Gamerpoints mean nothing in the real world (MS even removed some X360 players 120,000+ gamerscore as they said he was cheating to get some of them!!).

If they had put as much effort into making GOW PC technically solid I would have been impressed..........
 
This comes as interesting news. Albeit a tad too late since I just finished playing Gears a second time through this week.

Was hoping to see GoW2 for PC, but we shall have to wait. That's right, I am choosing to ignore Epic's lies about GoW2 coming to PC. Afterall, they can't exactly say "we are going to milk those poor fools who bought a 360 for a year or so first".
 
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Positive as if Windows LIVE detects anything running in the background which is not a windows process but is making calls to the game it bombs out after a while. Tried playing a few online matches with D3DO running and it kept CTDing then with no D3DO it was rock solid and never CTDed. Now I cannot unlock the Insane mode as I have completed it 3 times on hard mode but it will not unlock the Achievements for doing this or the Insane mode. Apparently Windows LIVE performs frequent checks on what is running in the background to prevent people from using trainers or other cheats. This is why any trainers on cheathappens for Windows LIVE games crash all the time as no-one has found a way to be logged into LIVE whilst running trainers in the background.

It sucks that they went to all this trouble especially as Gamerpoints mean nothing in the real world (MS even removed some X360 players 120,000+ gamerscore as they said he was cheating to get some of them!!).

If they had put as much effort into making GOW PC technically solid I would have been impressed..........
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It has never CTD for me with D3DO or CTD at all for that matter.
Xfire will not work ingame in Dx10 mode but does in Dx9 mode, i had the Xfire FPS counter & time overlay on & completed
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Shouldn't the Xfire overlay not trigger the achievement block as it was on at the time ?
And maybe D3DO will only trigger the block in Dx10 mode ?
 
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