Gears 5 Tech Test - Hard-Freezing GOW4 Style On Anyone Else? (PC)

[XtraTrstrL]

So, it took me a while in queue just to get in. I’m playing Boot Camp fine, other than the FPS not being as good as expected, when I get a consistent 144FPS locked in GOW4. Even though I turned down most MAJOR GPU impacting features in the Gears 5 Video settings.

Anyhow, I get to the point where you grab the Gnasher in Boot Camp, and as soon as I get shot at, it just hard-freezes. In GOW4, I can Alt+Tab out when it freezes cuz of the Nvidia 10 series issue, this isn’t the case with the Gears 5 Tech Test. I let it sit there, and eventually got the BSOD and it auto-rebooted after a 0-100% check for issues.

This is extremely disappointing. I never have any issues like this with any other games. The sad part is, reverting back to driver 382.53 might not even fix the issue with Gears 5, and I wouldn’t be willing to do that anyways. They need to work on optimizing the game too, because visuals aren’t far ahead enough of GOW4 that FPS should be going all over for me like that on my card.

So now I’ll have to wait forever in queue, just for it to randomly hard-freeze on me whenever it chooses. This is so pathetic. The issue was never worked out in Gears 4, now with all the focus on 5, it still carried over and is worse. I’m really in awe that they allowed this to happen again. So much for an amazing technical team over there.

[THE_BEY0NDER]

I can confirm that the PC version is freezing just like in Gears 4. Haven’t been able to finish one match before a hard freeze & have to hold power to reset PC.

[cilginlincoln]

you cant even start the game with an old driver because it will tell you to update to the newest one.

I got a bsod while having the que in the backround and browsing the internet.

Im prepared for the worst.

[SmoothSaylor]

I’ve found bootcamp to have a much choppier/laggier experience.

The actual verses is a much cleaner gameplay. I was a little scared when playing the bootcamp.

So far, the verses has been smooth and fun!

[XtraTrstrL]

GoD! It’s so annoying, because even in GOW4 it doesn’t hard-freeze on me, it freezes, but I can Alt+Tab and close the game. In the past there were times when it’d do the hard-freeze in GOW4, but ever since reinstalling a few weeks ago, it’s always a soft-freeze where I can close the game.

So, this is a worst-case now. The technical team over there needs some new hires. I cannot believe this issue has carried over, to a worse extent. I’m also not happy with the optimization of the game, I should get higher FPS.

I just reloaded the game, and snapped a pic of my 2 hour wait time, and the pic is all glitched visually. They got some funky stuff going on with the runtime of this game or something, look at this:

[lvladness420]

im having the same issue on pc. It was freezing during my queue time, I finally got in, was doing the tutorial and it hard froze. I still have sound but computer was frozen solid, So pissed right now.

[lvladness420]

Ive had to hard reset my pc like 4 times now.

[bashinskulls17]

my game started crashing & hard freezing like a mofo just now , it forced my stream to go down twice… this is ridiculous coalition… seriously …

[lvladness420]

I cant even get into a game or play with my friend on xbox one.

[XtraTrstrL]

I got in and was able to finish Boot Camp this time. I’m trying to do Escalation, not sure what’s going on, it has Kait onscreen and I can rotate her around, but it shows no searching for game info, and I can’t hit any buttons to get out of this area, I can just rotate her with right analog stick, LMAO.

Ok, it finally gave an error that it couldn’t find a game, so weird and glitchy.

Yea, I’m expecting it to do the hard-freeze again, at random times like GOW4. It’s really sad. They never fully fixed it with 4, just the revert to 382.53 2+ yr old driver suggestion always, and it’s made to look like it’s partially Nvidia’s fault, when it clearly is not. Nvidia just found a way to help them back then.

Maybe Nvidia will fix it for them again with the Nvidia Gears 5 Ready driver that comes out around launch, but now I’m afraid of pre-ordering.

I haven’t gotten into anything other than Boot Camp. Arcade just searches forever, same with Escalation, gonna try KOTH.

[USS_Prometheus]

I’ve not tried playing versus yet on PC, but the two times I ran the benchmark it locked up on the results screen. Audio still played from a youtube video, but I couldn’t alt-tab or get to task manager.

For anyone interested, the card I’m running is an Aorus 1060 6Gb.

[XtraTrstrL]

Yea, it’s the old hard-freeze that still exists on GOW4, they carried that feature over to 5. It happened to me the first time I got in the game, during Boot Camp, it eventually BSOD’d and auto-rebooted my PC.

Even on GOW4 it’s not that bad for me, cuz it’s a soft-freeze where I can Alt-Tab out and close the game, and reload. So, they’re getting better at breaking things.

[THE_BEY0NDER]

It’s going to be hilarious when they put this game on Steam.

[Billaliciouss]

yeah i got the same exact issue hardlock-crash bsod like in gears 4, Had to reset my pc 2 times. The balls on the coalition for this rinse and repeat scenario.

[bashinskulls17]

straight up facts, they got no idea the sh*t storm the game will get if this issue stays in full release cause oh boy the negative reviews will hurt this game on pc lol

[XtraTrstrL]

LoL, just got a new crash, wasn’t a hard freeze, it was a little error message box “Thanks for playing Gears 5” then something about they detected an error, and a GPU stopped responding error with a code. Similar to a rare crash that happens in Overwatch every now and then for people.

Happens right when I get into a rolling lobby for Arcade.

[KliFuria]

Nvidia user here. The game still crashing just like gears 4. So disappointed

[GhostofDelta2]

10 series card on drivers past 382.53?

[Acuarius_GC]

Hi I was playing gears 5 and suddenly freezes(crashed) just like happen with gears 4, I have an i7 4790 + Gtx 1080 + 16GB RAM, and an SSD, please take note of this., there was an error code GW502.

[KliFuria]

Yes, gtx 1060.