Gears of War won't install

Help! My new copy of Gears won't install on my vista x64 machine.

It installed perfectly fine on an XP SP2 machine, but hangs on install
on my vista machine. Attempted install three times.

For those of you who have installed the game, you know that it goes
through three phases; 1. Validating the installation 2. Copying game
files 3. Decompressing game files.
My install hangs after stage three. At this point the optical drive
sounds like it is seeking back and forth, like it is looking for
something on the disc (I already checked, this disc is flawless, no
scratches). This usually runs for 10 minutes solid until I eject the
disc and put it back in to see if that helps (it doesn't).

Attached is a screen of what happens to the installer window when it
fails. I try to click on the icon in the taskbar, but nothing happens.

I have all the latest vista updates and the latest video/audio drivers
for my system.
Any help is much appreciated.


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devjt2

Intel E6400, Asus P5B Deluxe, 4GB Corsiar DDR2 800, Geforce 7900GT, 3x
Seagate 250GB, Samsung Optical drive, Creative Audigy 4, Vista Home
Premium x64

Hi there
I have the excact same problem but within 32x vista

Gets to decompressing files then at the end, cd drive does searches
then get a message pls insert the correct GOW dvd.
Then after that it minimises like your screenshot and nothing?

Any help out there?? :(


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dudds23

Have a look at your error logs and post what they say.
You get to them by;

Left Click on Start Menu.
Right click on Computer and choose manage.
Click on the event viewer.
You now have loads of options to try and pin down what is happening.
Expand the error tab.
Look for things in the last 24 hours.

Hope this gives you the right direction. If it helps please reply to
the forum as it will help others.


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roy69

- Core 2 Quad Q6600
- Abit IP35 Pro
- 4 x 1GB OcUK PC2-6400 C5 800 MHZ Dual Channel
- Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3
- CiBox TFT 22" Widescreen LCD Panel. 1680 x 1050
- Creative X-Fi 7.1 PCI-E
- Antec 900 Ultimate Gaming Case
- Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers
- Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Complient PSU

Thanks for your help
I have looked into the errors that occured at the time of installing
and i have a load that lead to the cdrom which says The device,
\Device\CdRom0, has a bad block.

Ah i have succesfully installed it on our Windows XP machine so it must
be somthing to do within vista?


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dudds23

Have you tried putting the game on a different vista machine, your cd
drive may be on its way out. Try copying the cd onto your computer and
install from there.


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roy69

- Core 2 Quad Q6600
- Abit IP35 Pro
- 4 x 1GB OcUK PC2-6400 C5 800 MHZ Dual Channel
- Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3
- CiBox TFT 22" Widescreen LCD Panel. 1680 x 1050
- Creative X-Fi 7.1 PCI-E
- Antec 900 Ultimate Gaming Case
- Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers
- Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Complient PSU

Its a new Sony NEC Optiarc SATA drive which appears to be faulty
I fitted the IDE old dvd rom drive back in and tried re-installing and
it installed fine.

Il have to RMA the drive

Thanks for your assistance roy!


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dudds23

I have problem too with this game. But in my cause, i can install GoW
and then i can't run it :(

Sometimes it's working, but for a while ( only menu ), and i must use
ctr-alt-del :confused:

I checked my system ( Windows Home Premium 64bit ) with other games
like:

- Bioshock - PASSED
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare - PASSED
- Medal of Honor Airborne - PASSED
- Crysis - PASSED
- DIRT - PASSED

Maybe this problem is through Sevice Pack which i have installed and
then uninstalled ?


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Malik