Gears of War require shader model 3.0 ?

[screwball]

I have installed the Gears of War on PC, but its not starting. My onborad graphics hard having 256 MB of memory and shader model 2, till now it was able to play all games properly like NFS series and Prince of Persia and all, but its not playing Gears of war, i don't think so its any issue with ram and graphics memory, does it require shader model 3.0 ? I saw at the back of game packet but its not saying anything like that, Thanks for any suggestions.

[Akuma]

Here is the minimum system requirements for Gears of War :

OS: Windows Vista or Windows XP
Processor : 2.4+ GHz Intel; 2.0+ Ghz AMD
RAM : 1 GB
Hard Drive : 12 GB free hard drive space
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce 6600, ATI X700 equivalent or above
Online Multi-player: Broadband Internet Connection,
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[Gamez]

Yes its require shader model 3.0, as you can see the minimum system requirement is NVIDIA GeForce 6600, and it comes with the support of shader model 3.0.

http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce_6600.html

[Dion]

Minimum Requirements are:

2.5GHz Single Core Processor
GeForce 6600
1GB of RAM
Windows XP/DX9

And the Recommended for best experience :

3.0GHz Single Core Processor
GeForce 7800
1.5GB of RAM
Windows XP/DX9

What error you see on screen when you start game? Gears of War 1 or Gears of War 2 Its really difficult to play this type of game on onboard graphics card. Buy a Geforce or more better one to play this game.