The Coalition has just announced that a new update for the PC version of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition will be released next week. This update will pack performance optimizations, Ambient Occlusion tweaks and refactor of texture settings to better reflect VRAM requirements. In addition, this update will disable mouse acceleration.
Here are the key features of this upcoming patch:
- Performance optimizations
- Refactor of texture settings to better reflect VRAM requirements and to better manage the texture levels for each setting.
- Ambient Occlusion tweaks.
- Tuned mouse coming out of roadie run.
- Disabled mouse smoothing.
The Coalition will also be deploying some updated optimized playlists to help with matchmaking.
Going into more details, here is what The Coalition had to say about some of the problems that PC gamers are currently encountering with the PC version of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition. Oh, and in case you’re wondering, there is no word yet about SLI support.
Textures not loading
This will be improved by the update next week. We’ll continue to make improvements here where we can.NAT problems
We are looking into why this is happening. While we work on discovering the root cause, we are discussing changes we can do to help matchmaking if you are erroneously given the wrong NAT type.Long Queues
Our playlist change coming early next week should help with this.21:9 Support
We hear you and we are adding ultra-wide resolutions to the game.Mouse Acceleration
Our update next week will disable mouse smoothing and increase the responsiveness coming out of roadie run. I’ll continue to read the feedback after the update.Achievements not unlocking
We’re working on tracking down the reason this would happen.
Last but not least, The Coalition is also looking at reducing hitches on start of level, reducing hitches when streaming level chunks and reducing audio stutter on older CPU’s.
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Yeah, if SLI/cfx isnt in this next patch, its not coming at all.
I think gears of war will be in the top 10 worst optimazed pc game in 2016
Hell no. It’s not even that bad
exaggerating at its finest.
How about removing forced vsync and enabling gsync/freesync.
THAT would be swell
It will take Micro$haft years to fix their UWP to a suitable state.
Well im pretty sure about that too but let’s give them a chance. They just took the pc gamer turn. They might, in the end, do the right thing.
No, Micro$haft needs to release their “console exclusives” on other distribution platforms while they improve their own platform. If EA did it while building up Origin, Micro$haft can do the same. This will show their TRUE intentions for the PC platform.
All they needed was a Uplay. They could have got people on their dumb mobile store through companion apps for the game (see watchdogs).
MS is not in this to help PC Gaming or grow it. They are in it to monopolize the PC to the point of no return (selling broken games to imbeciles that make their console look good, is just a means to an end), so that they can do what they originally wanted anyways. That is the entire point of UWP. If they can get people hooked there is no way out. No one will drop all their games to switch to Linux/Vulkan API when it is too late.
Then with ZERO competition and no chance of competition they can charge us Xbox Live type garbage like their consoles. Control/charge for mods. Run all other stores out of business.
Oh good point.
Give them a chance? I can’t find a reason to give them a chance but a dozen reasons NOT to!
Yea well i’m probably too gentle with them basterds.
I really don’t know what the hell happened in brainstorm when they were aiming at conquering PC gamers.
Needs Exclusive fullscreen & V-sync/G-sync support, Also Sli/Crossfire which they did say is coming
Literally a worse port than Batman AK. In that game I could play at 1440p downsample with Adaptive Vsync and a sweetfx profile that made the game look like a darn movie on my 970 MITX. Granted 30 FPS like the console sucks, but at least it was WAY better than the console version with tweaks/sweetfx (which we cannot do on UWP). Our Gears is WORSE than the console version while requiring MUCH higher end power. Batman AK was done by a team of 11 or 12 in less than a month. MS made a WORSE port in SIX MONTHS on the same engine on a much easier game to get right, in what is essentially a 10 year old corridor shooter.
The campaign in Gears stutters on a 980Ti and a Titan X…Gears Ultimate might be the worst port of all time.
Not to mention MS bait and switched everyone with BS articles on Eurogamer where they said the port would have Async AO (their Xbox does it for all the new games now) and possibly MSAA. They instead signed Nvidia for every game, removed Async AO from every game (the primary performance improvement in DX 12) and even worse made HBAO + the only AO option in Gears. At least in ROTR we got a gimped SSAO option (not Async).
Oh and this company wants more power with UWP/DX 12, when they INTENTIONALLY harm performance, hire Nvidia to do it on every game.
Yeah right MS. Even IF your store was not trash/UWP was not trash, just by the way you treated these two ports? Means I never want to see you have any involvement with PC Gaming again.
It isn’t as bad as you are saying and the game isn’t 10 years old, it has been updated with some pretty modern graphics tbh. It’s like you want Microsoft to fail. Yyou are not worthy of that name, I am worthy of mine though before you start :p
what a bullshit opinion, none of what you said is fact. i ve had ABSOLUTELY NO ISSUES with the game. All running buttery smooth on both SP and MP. Worse port than akrham knight is just pure BS and you know it. Try to not make comments speaking for everyone and trying to make your opinion fact when in fact most of it is wrong. yes, windows store is does not have all the bells and whistles a pc gamer may want, ibut its far from broken. if anything, it loads the game faster than antyhing out there with seamless alt tabbing. maybe next time you should not speak for others but only for yourself.
ALSO, ITS A VERY GOOD LOOKING GAME.
He is not speaking for everyone he is saying what he witnessed and it seems that a lot of people agree with him. Does this bother you? I agree at some point him. The only thing I don’t agree is that it is the worse port ever. Doesn’t change the fact that is a horrible port! If we accept that you are playing the game buttery smooth its just one opinion. I have read a ton people complaining about audio stuttering, slow texture streaming, low fps, laptop issues, amd hardware issues and on top of that Windows store issues and BS. That is how things are.
Good deal. The game is actually running fairly decent right now, and the last patch fixed the gsync issue along with unlocked framerates. The biggest problems I hear about is unoptimized match making and no sli or overlay support
New patch should disable this crap itself. Anyway the graphics are terrible, windows store only with all it’s minuses atm, runs terrible. And the MP is already a wasteland.
I bet you this garbage did not passed 20k sales on PC.
How do developers still release PC games with locked mouse smoothing and require patches to remove it….
Tell me exactly what it changes.
I’ve tried using the community fix for ROTR and it worked until the recent patch, now I’m getting the SLI memory leak again, which causes massive stutters from time to time.
What does this do?
Fixes Utilization and awkward stuttering. I made a video. My 970’s keep a constant 97/98% Utilization XD.
What are the changes in the profile, which bits?
Asking because I have no way of checking myself.
well I am not gonna go into great detail… You will just have to check when you have time. Well I am off for work.
Doesn’t fix anything.
Just like the default profile and any other profile I’ve tried, it starts out performing well and goes to sht after a few minutes.
Really I been playing for hours with it. Hours… Oh well Maybe Nvidia should get their sh i t tougher since it’s working for others XD
Looked at bits and it’s the ROTR community profile, which I had used before with bad results.
People on 980’s, 780’s in sli are all telling me they are having great performance… I guess you are just not lucky. Well in my video I say it will most likely not work with everybody. And it’s not The Rotr profile. I mean if it was not working I am sure I would not have people on my video say it’s not working XD.
Which OS?
Win 7 – 10 that I am aware of I can’t keep up with all the responses. However the game still needs work. It’s not a perfect profile by any means. And the overall game will need further optimization patches dealing with Multi GPU’s.
But other then that I am pretty happy with it and happy the SnowDrop engine supports Multi GPU’s.
I’m seeing some reports that the memory leak is only happening on Win10.
Ether way the game needs a patch in general. Some area’s I am still having problems in. Even with high utilization it does not matter. Games needs a patch for Multi GPU’s. Since I do the same area’s in Single and have zero stuttering
Laughable.
If you don’t care how bad the port is then your opinion should be taken lightly.. I believe Bruce’s post pretty much says everything so no need to post the same things.
I think Starfals brings up valid points. So please mind yourself and stop trying to censor him.
I mind myself. I don’t try to censor anyone, no need to do this. Our words speak for us.. Saying that a bad port still runs at the very least 30fps is ok doesn’t sound ok to me.. Also saying that he doesn’t care how bad the port doesn’t sound ok to me as well.. The fact is that GOW is a horrible port.
I would just like to see SLi support in their games.
Microsoft is on my black list now (next to Ubicrap, Warner Bros and few other bunglers), because they are clearly sabotaging the PC as a gaming platform to induce some players to buy Xbox One.
Gears Ultimate Edition is one of worst ports I’ve seen in year or more.