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

Gears 5
#364

Well, considering we all spotted the issue with Gears 5 Tech Test, and it’s been accepted that it’s the same exact issue, it makes sense they threw a lot more time/resources at it. Think of all the potential Steam buyers that know nothing about the issue, then hearing us mention it’s been an unfixed issue with Gears 4 for over 2 years.

That could be devastating for launch on PC. Gears 4 didn’t even launch with the issue, it popped up months later, so it’d be waaay worse for Gears 5, being at launch and an already established huge issue.

Hopefully it’s 100% knocked out with the next driver for all of us.

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#365

even more tested with other graphics. works fine

Anyone else excited for the larger user base Gears 5 will have
#366

Oh yeah for sure it’s sad a little though they left us in the dark for so long. Glad to see they are on it this time around but I’m fully aware it’s only because they don’t want to lose money, before with 4 they already had it. Steam has an amazing return policy they def need to iron out the kinks before full launch.

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#367

Not just for the returns, but the negative reviews would be devastating. Bad Steam reviews could be something you never come back from, even after fixing issues sometimes. It’d lead to a lot more articles also. Not enough people care about or pay any attention to Windows Store games/apps to even look into stuff and report on it.

That’s part of why the Gears 4 PC issues didn’t have much talk about them other than on this low populated forums. There’s not enough people willing to buy anything on the Windows Store. Steam is a whole different story though. There’d be articles popping up left and right, burying TC and MS.

So, they will want to transition to Steam with large 1st party AAA titles like this as smoothly as possible, to avoid possible irreversible damage.

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#368

I’m not reinstalling gears 4 to test but you guys are saying it’s all fixed?

#369

Most of us haven’t crashed with it yet, but the Nvidia staff said it’s a partial fix that should clear it up for most of us. They plan to have the full fix in the next driver.

So, it’s not a guaranteed 100% fix currently. Hopefully, the next driver will be the true full fix for everyone.

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#370

Perhaps I’ll buy the game after all

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#371

Played 5 games of TDM with no issues, even turned on background recording. I’m hopeful this is finally the end.

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#372

Played a few last night plus some horde no freezes. Things are looking up. I did get a freeze the first night after 4hrs of play but I believe that was a ram stability issue I updated my bios too forgot that I had OC’d my ram a bit. Will test more tonight.

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#373

This is really good news! Getting the driver now & i’ll report back.

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#374

Happy to report that no freezing since the new driver. It’s actually hard to believe that after 2 long years it’s really fixed.

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#375

played 5hrs the other night, v-sync on, a-sync on, background recording on and not 1 freeze up. Good job to all those who submitted logs and kept the pressure up!

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#376

Yeah I’m gonna say fixed on my end GTX 1080 Ryzen 5 1600. Been a long road and yeah sure it only got fixed for gears 5 sales and gears 4 10 series players got bent over for 2 yrs lol. I’m glad it’s fixed after 2yrs of forum ■■■■■■■■ and sending dumps. Now let’s hope they optimize the ■■■■ outta 5 cause my fps was meh in the tech test.

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#377

I was playing tonight on TV, display settings on extended display mode for multiple displays. After around an hour of play, it started half-second stuttering every 10-20 seconds. It’d go away shortly and come back. This is the first issue I’ve had with these drivers so far, so it may be connected to the diplay mode.

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#378

The new driver seems to be the fix we’ve been waiting 2 years for!
I was dealing with the same crashes as you guys on my nvidia GTX1080 card and since the new driver has been released I have yet to crash on Gears 4! Many hours spent in Versus with no stutters or crashes, the same with campaign and horde! This gives me high hopes for Gears 5! Good luck people!

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#379

/salute to anyone else rocking 382.53 for this long.

There should be a heroic deebee in its name.

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#380

I could play without any crashes on Gears 4 with the newest driver last days. But unfortunalety i experienced my first crash (GW502) in the campaign of Gears 5 right now.

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#381

GPU and driver?

#382

1060 6GB and 436.15

#383

Yea, that GW502 crash was happening a lot on the Tech Test, I don’t think it’s related to the 10 series issues. It’s just a different issue Gears 5 seems to have. It hasn’t happened to me with the full game as of yet, but I got it a few times during the Tech Test, and a friend of mine got it right away on the Tech Test on a GTX 970.

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