Gears of War for PC?

PALGN Rumour | Speculation triggered by shop display.

Gamer tongues have been set wagging recently over the possibility of Xbox 360 shooter Gears of War coming to the PC. Of course, rumours regarding a PC version of the brilliant Epic shooter are almost as old as David; even as far back as 2005, Xbox executive J Allard was telling us the game would be for "Xbox and PC".

However, more (admittedly slender, but forgive us, it's a weekend) evidence has emerged, in the form of a photo of a "Games for Windows" shop display unit that has appeared in a forthcoming issue of PC Gamer. And what could possibly be in said shop display unit? Why, only a PC version of Cliffy B's latest and greatest! A scan of the picture is available over at the You NEWB blog, and it does look fairly legitimate.

For their part, Microsoft and Epic have both refused to comment on the subject, though that isn't a denial, right? RIGHT?! Mind you, it's likely an impressive set-up will be required for those who purchase any future PC incarnation, especially considering how bleedin' ace Gears looked on the 360. Oh, and did we mention we love Gears of War? Just buy it already, kids.

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30 Comments

Jim Dash

5 years ago

If it does come to PC, it will probably take AGES (like Halo 2) and would most likely be a Direct X 10 game..

But hey I could be wrong. Imagine online play via Windows live with the PC heads and their awesomely accurate aiming..

DrTim

5 years ago

Well the only other game on the PC atm (that I am aware of) that uses the Unreal 3 engine is Roboblitz, and its Reqs:

Minimum: Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2, Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0GHz or AMD Athlon™ XP 2000+, 512 MB RAM, 400MB Hard Disk Space, nVidia® Geforce® 6600 or ATI Radeon® X800 Video Card with 256 MB RAM, DirectX Version 9.0c

Recommended: Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2, Intel® Pentium® Extreme Edition 3.2GHz or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 3800+, 1 GB RAM, 400MB Hard Disk Space, nVidia® Geforce® 7800 or ATI Radeon® X1800 Video Card with 256 MB RAM, DirectX Version: 9.0c

are insane to say the least. So I don't wanna know what kinda machine you need for this monster!

Crestfallen

5 years ago

we don't need a console port

Dr Tim, Unreal Tournament 2007 also uses the engine so maybe check the specs on that
?

Jellyfish

5 years ago

Check out what Gears of War is like first

You're going to need a really beefy PC. With at least dual cores too I'd think, since Gears of War is optimised for six threads.

Emuaust

5 years ago

nikack wrote

Check out what Gears of War is like first

You're going to need a really beefy PC. With at least dual cores too I'd think, since Gears of War is optimised for six threads.

And people buy into this crap so narrow mindedly?

The game will come to PC and yes you will need a decent rig to run it although
if your remotly serious about your PC gaming you should be about there anyways.

admeister

5 years ago

I got to see Gears of War running at eGames, quite spectacular.

The chainsaw is awesome! Graphics are very purdy.

Crestfallen

5 years ago

nikack wrote

Check out what Gears of War is like first

You're going to need a really beefy PC. With at least dual cores too I'd think, since Gears of War is optimised for six threads.

i can't imagine the dual core being necessary for the game to work. its a more efficient CPU but it doesn't do anything a normal CPU can't.

but i could be wrong...

Spanca

5 years ago

crestfallen12 wrote

its a more efficient CPU but it doesn't do anything a normal CPU can't.

but i could be wrong...

Well it can run 2 processes simultaneously so there is something it can do that a single core single CPU can't. That said, I doubt they'd be making great sales on the game if they make it only compatible with multi-core CPUs.

Jellyfish

5 years ago

A dual core CPU is two CPUs sharing L2 Cache and FSB, depending on the code their working on they can be 190% (or higher) more powerful. The Xbox 360 has 6 "CPUs" each running at 3.2GHz, that's about 19.2 billion instructions per second, compare that to a P4 at the same frequency that's which is only 3.2 billion instructions per second.

However the 360's CPU is a RISC chip compared to a CISC of the P4 so if you double or triple the number of instructions to 6.4 or 9.6 billion to compensate for the amount of work the chips actually do... You can see the difference in speed the CPUs actually are.

Disclaimer: These aren't the real stats of the CPUs since I only have basic knowledge on the subject, but they'd be pretty close on the Xbox 360 side anyway.

Spanca

5 years ago

The 360 has a single, triple-core CPU, does it not? Not two x 3 cores.

Crestfallen

5 years ago

nikack wrote

cool thanks for the stats man

but still, the speed difference won't mean you can't play it on a pentium. it should remain compatible, if not as efficient.

and also don't forget 'next gen' PC games will rely alot more on the GPU

Jellyfish

5 years ago

Spanca wrote

The 360 has a single, triple-core CPU, does it not? Not two x 3 cores.

Twin hardware threads per core, means it's effectively two "cores". Basicly the same as Hyper Threading on the P4s.

Ellegarden

5 years ago

nikack wrote

Spanca wrote

The 360 has a single, triple-core CPU, does it not? Not two x 3 cores.

Twin hardware threads per core, means it's effectively two "cores". Basicly the same as Hyper Threading on the P4s.

That means the xbox can produce 3 pure parallel processes with 2 simulated parallel process at each core. I wonder how that compares to PS3 7 SPU on the Cell chip?

Jellyfish

5 years ago

Three cores with two hardware threads each, if that's what you're saying.

Don't you dare start on the PS3

It starts getting ridiculously complicated from there on. Even multi-coring and multi-threading is more complicated.

Ellegarden

5 years ago

nikack wrote

Three cores with two hardware threads each, if that's what you're saying.

Don't you dare start on the PS3

It starts getting ridiculously complicated from there on. Even multi-coring and multi-threading is more complicated.

C'mon nikack, I love it when you talk dirty.

But I heard Xbox CPU can wield more processes at once on one thread core meaning more accessible to developers, as opposed SPU programming which needs to be compiled but giving great perfomance yeild.

Frozencry

5 years ago

Don't start on the PS3 vs 360 processor crap..both have their advantages in different aspects.

Anyway, IMO Gears wouldn't work as well as it does on console. The third person view and such works much more effectively on a console. And it'd be playable on lower end cpus, just lower the details

Ellegarden

5 years ago

Frozencry wrote

Don't start on the PS3 vs 360 processor crap..both have their advantages in different aspects.

Not really, ps3 is the winner in this aspect overall. Pays to go in development, rather implement existing technology.

Nephilim

5 years ago

DrTim wrote

lmao..... "Intel® Pentium® Extreme Edition 3.2GHz"

That costs... like... 2 xbox 360's

ObsoletE

5 years ago

hmm, i thought i read an Epic Games confirmation of this coming to PC a few months ago on Beyond Unreal of something.

Sin Ogaris

5 years ago

This is why I never buy Microsoft consoles.

Spanca

5 years ago

^ Why is that? A $600 console that plays games better than a PC that costs 4 times as much?

ObsoletE

5 years ago

^ i don't see the logic in that statement.

EDIT: @Sin Ogaris.

Spanca

5 years ago

The "Xbox is a PC" argument has even less credibility than the "Wii is a hopped up Gamecube" line.

Sin Ogaris

5 years ago

Simple, I already have a 3.2Ghz PC. Only 512MB RAM but oh noes, that's only about 100 bucks for another 512MB. Graphics Card needs replacing (I have a Radeon 9800 XT), but again I could (at the time of GoW release) easily pick one up for about 400 or so which would be more than capable. Wow, that's cheaper than a 360 and I have better control.

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