Gears of War Ultimate Edition on PC performance problems

[Iggy Wolf]

I have it on my Xbox One but I was thinking of also getting it for PC for the higher FPS and higher graphics settings. Now, I've read recently that even though it initially was poorly optimized, it got better, but now, after this year's April update to WIndows 10, its performance has gotten really bad again (jumps from 30 to 120 FPS and back).

Is this true? I don't see the point of getting it on my PC if it wasn't going to allow me right now higher FPS or stability than the Xbox One version. I've heard people having trouble uninstalling it when it didn't work, and not even being able to actually remove the game or the space it's taking up.

[willbobaggins69]

hi, I have just recently installed and ive noticed a lot of fps drop, I have set my pc to run as smoothly as it should with any other game, runs elder scrolls online perfectly, but with gears just does not seem to run smoothly at all, its constantly dropping frames down to 30 fps alot, even with the fps lock switched off, heard a lot of others experiencing the same, poorly optimized, best bet is to play it on xbox.

[Arvaos]

Unfortunately, the game is old now and it does have problems on both PC and Xbox One.

You could play it with the FPS limited to 30 or 60FPS and I know that isn't ideal but at least you would have better resolution than the Xbox One version.

[Iggy Wolf]

Yeah, I've gotten it (Gamepass) but I also have drops down into low 20s. Apparently, something broke in the game ever since the WIndows 10 1803 update. The Coalition is actually aware of it but they're too busy with Gears 5 and Gears of War 4 optimization to worry about Gears 1.

[clamatac]

same problem here but disabling in-game vsync and turn shadow to low seems to fix the problem for me

[Looopeeeeeee]

Hi.

I just got this game and it ran like crap. However I did some reading and turn the frames to unlimited and you'll find this will work best.

https://forums.gearsofwar.com/t/gow-ultimate-edition-for-windows-10-rtx-2080-35-fps/30097/7?u=looopeeeeeee

[BigFatRock]

During game GPU clock not rising to max value, that why game working like we see (I had in benchmark 122 fps, during game 30-40). So solution is to extend settings to max for force GPU to take higher clock. We can use folding@home program or like me, change antyaliasing to 8xEQ in driver panel and now i have between 70-144 FPS for whole game (vega 56).

[Plaid]

I don't have GoW Ultimate but I also had trouble uninstalling Gears 4. Finally, I had to take control of the directory and delete it, to get the space back.
Even installing the game was a bit of an issue. And along with the inability to access the files...
I stopped using the Windows Store to purchase things after that. I'm not a big enough fan of Microsoft's games to deal with this ♥♥♥♥.

[Twin Astaria]

I know this is late to the party but, I was having the same problems even with an RTX 2070 and i7. I turned off V-Sync in-game, and then used Nvidia Inspector to limit the frame rate to 72. Problem solved. Hope that helps others!

[XOF]

This game works at 10fps on RTX 3060. Nuts.

[Twin Astaria]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย XOF:

This game works at 10fps on RTX 3060. Nuts.

See the post directly above yours. Instantly solved all my problems. Recently played through it again, this time with a 3060, and it was smooth as butter on max settings.

[76561198992030396]

Lies and lies. Playing it right now on 4070 and it still drops to 40-50 in lot of scenes, gpu nor cpu are loaded even to 50%, welp unreal engine what do you expect

[76561199181522831]

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