January 30th, 2009

Gears Of War PC Fix!

I know Gears of War may not be that fresh, but it's still a damn good game to kill your time with, especially online. Anyway, we talked about this game down to the small details some time ago, so you can go ahead and read the Gears of War PC review published here, on PlayerzBlog, because now we have to talk about the Gears of War PC fix. Why now? Well, it seems this game had a little time bomb in it...

...simply because this venerable game refuses to start. Just read this - a bunch of users reported on the official game forum that they started getting an error saying something like this "C:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesGears of Warwargame-g4wlive.exe: You cannot run the game with modified executable code. Please reinstall the game."

Obviously, we're talking about people who bought the game and weren't using a cracked executable, but here's the catch - Epic signed the game's exe file with a digital signature, so that the built-in DRM routines check the signature to ensure you're not using a cracked version. So far, so good, only that the signature just expired!

Now, that's a really silly problem, but it happened! So...what about that Gears of War PC fix?

1. You could change the date of your computer back to 2007 before starting the game - silly solution to a silly problem, I know, but at least it works!

2. Don't think about reinstalling the game - it simply doesn't work!

3. At last, an Epic employee posted on the official forum, saying they are aware of the problem and currently working on a fix with Microsoft.

That's it folks - if you're looking for a Gears of War PC fix, there's only one, for now - travel back in time! :)