Comment from Epic about Gears of Wars on Pc
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PostPosted: Wed, 10th Jan 2007 13:40    Post subject: Comment from Epic about Gears of Wars on Pc
http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=560732

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There is no "new information" that Gears will be released on PC. You know console games are developed on PCs, right? Even if we never release Gears of War on PC we still need to run the game on PC to develop and test content for it.

Our first E3 demo, over two years ago, was done on an PC equipped with dual NVIDIA graphics cards. That was how we simulated the power of Xbox 360 before there was actually a real Xbox 360 to run on.

We gave NVIDIA a copy of wargame.exe (along with some sample content from Gears) so they could help us tweak Unreal Engine 3 performance and reliability on NVIDIA graphics chips. That was necessary to make the development tools perform well and ensure that their drivers would support UE3 going forward. That was beneficial because two PC games (Roboblitz and Rainbow Six Vegas) have already shipped for PC and we're planning to ship our next Unreal Tournament game on PC this year as well.

So in reality the only thing this supposed "leak" demonstrates is that we work closely with NVIDIA to ensure the best possible performance for our engine on their platforms. Ditto for ATI and other graphics vendors as well.

Unfortunately none of the site reporting this silliness bothered to ask me for a comment on it

When asked recently in an interview whether I had "any comment on the Windows Vista version of Gears of War?" I replied the following:

There’s nothing to announce at this time. We’ve said all along that, at some point in the future, we could adapt Gears of Wars for PC. Based on past experience we’ve learned that it takes approximately 5 years for an OS to fully take hold among the gaming population. So unless it takes us 5 years to bring Gears of War to Windows, we certainly expect to keep supporting Windows XP users. For now however Gears is available exclusively on Xbox360 and we’re still working on improvements and enhancements to it.


shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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PostPosted: Wed, 10th Jan 2007 14:27    Post subject:
boy did you post this in the wrong section...

gow will come to pc... i dont care when, im just happy knowing that it will Very Happy


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PostPosted: Wed, 10th Jan 2007 14:51    Post subject:
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PostPosted: Wed, 10th Jan 2007 15:36    Post subject:
That shit sucks man. They have limited the sensitivity and the rate you can move around with the mouse.

But anyway, GoW rocks on the 360 with the pad anyway Wink

It will probably come to the PC in 2-3 years, when it's old news.


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PostPosted: Wed, 10th Jan 2007 16:05    Post subject:
Looks like it ended up in the wron section Razz


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PostPosted: Wed, 10th Jan 2007 17:15    Post subject:
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PostPosted: Wed, 10th Jan 2007 17:16    Post subject:
JiGSaW wrote:
there is hope Very Happy

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/07/nvidia-drivers-leak-potential-pc-gears-of-war/

That is what Anthirs was referring to. He pasted Epic's reponse!


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PostPosted: Wed, 10th Jan 2007 17:23    Post subject:
moving ;p


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PostPosted: Wed, 10th Jan 2007 17:23    Post subject:
Exacta mundo!


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PostPosted: Wed, 10th Jan 2007 20:16    Post subject:
I dont think they care about pc users right now.. they wanna focus on the sequels now since thegame sold so good.. even if it comes out someday it will probably be after the last trilogy game or something.. not sooner.
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PostPosted: Wed, 10th Jan 2007 20:31    Post subject:
swebarb wrote:
I dont think they care about pc users right now.

They do, UT2007.


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PostPosted: Wed, 10th Jan 2007 20:49    Post subject:
Who needs GoW when we got Crysis. Looks 10x better too Razz
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PostPosted: Wed, 10th Jan 2007 20:56    Post subject:
madnessnaab wrote:
Who needs GoW when we got Crysis. Looks 10x better too Razz

Costs 10x more to get a rig to be able to run it on a setting that looks better. Laughing


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PostPosted: Wed, 10th Jan 2007 22:15    Post subject:
Parallax_ wrote:
swebarb wrote:
I dont think they care about pc users right now.

They do, UT2007.


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PostPosted: Thu, 11th Jan 2007 00:03    Post subject:
Karmeck wrote:
Parallax_ wrote:
swebarb wrote:
I dont think they care about pc users right now.

They do, UT2007.


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Preorder already made! cant wait for ut2007 Very Happy


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