Gears Of War possible on PC

[HaloGuy123]

There have already been numerous rumors regarding a possible port of Gears of War from the Xbox 360 to the PC, which representatives from Microsoft debunked immediately. Now, however, it seems that there may be even more signs pointed in that direction, as discovered by the folks over at Joystiq.

As it turns out, they downloaded an Nvidia driver from a site known as The Guru of 3D, a site that hosts tweaked and modded drivers. However, it turns out that the one they downloaded somehow had the popular Microsoft title in the driver's script. Of course, we have to bear in mind that the driver has been modded in the first place, and we have no idea if that little line of script was placed there by someone who actually works for Microsoft, or just some bored and random coder.

It may be hard to get our hopes up, but it's also difficult to discount the possibility of such a port. After all, it took other console titles at least a year or so before their PC versions were released. Plus, there's also the fact that GoW, which is from Microsoft, may well be a tool that can be used to convince users to switch to Windows Vista once it hits the market.

Well, we're crossing our fingers anyway.

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[SO_TurmoilTech [Commander]]

Gears is meant for console style gaming... just my opinion.

[HaloGuy123]

admin said:

Gears is meant for console style gaming... just my opinion.

Yea I agree with that one but seems like its already out on PC or something

[HaloGuy123]

Sorry folks, but it seems that Mark Rein himself has already spoken out and put a stop to the rumors which stated that the popular Xbox 360 title, Gears of War, may be ported over to the PC.

Mark Rein says "No".

Well, he didn't actually say "No", but he did explain how all the ruckus happened, particularly the part where people spotted a line of script in an Nvidia driver which got everyone's hopes up.

According to Rein, during the first E3 demo which they did a couple of years back, the demo 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". He then goes on to say that it was necessary for them to provide a copy of the file "wargame.exe", along with sample content from Gears of War to NVIDIA "so they could help us tweak Unreal Engine 3 performance and reliability on NVIDIA graphics chips".

So to settle things once and for all, he says that,

...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.


So there.