Barry, any chance you can explain how to do this? When I tried it, it said that it couldn't sign into the account. Would appreciate any other details that you can provide :)

Go to your Windows Firewall or Whatever Firewall you have..

Look for the Gears Of War Entry, and Uncheck / Delete it, and it will not connect.

Mkilbride2511, thanks for the reply, but I'm well aware of how to stop the game from accessing the Internet. That's not the problem. I was wondering what the process was for actually creating an offline profile. In game, the option is never given to do so. What I see so far is the "Gamer Profile" at the bottom of the main screen, and when I click it, it gives me the ability to create a profile. When trying to do so, with denying access to the game to access the Internet, the game tries to sign in, fails, and takes me back to the screen to create the profile. What I wanna know is what I'm doing wrong... am I missing something? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

My main system is down unfortunately, and I can't remember exactly what to do as I'm using another PC temporarily and it won't run the game with 256mb RAM and a Ti500 64mb graphics card :)

I did click the Gamer Profile option and fiddle with the options there and got an account (I think) created, at least it let me play the game, and I never connected to the net!

No prob BarryB, I can wait till you get your main system back up and running (I know how that can be, it's a pain enough not having the ability to do the things you want cause the system you're on can't handle them!). Appreciate your help when you can give it, or anyone else if they've been successful at doing this :)

New NoCd
 

Hey, Im having trouble starting up Gears of War ever since the patch has been released. Replacing the 'startup.exe' with the crack thats available no longer seem to work, does anyone here know of another way to start it up without the disc?

Mounting the iso doesnt work even with all emulation settings on such as securom and safedisc (even with YASU), I beleive gears of war has a new version of safedisc.
Starting up the patched game with the old crack results in the game asking for the disc. Mounting the iso and using the original startup.exe results in an error asking to insert the original dvd disc. Mounting the game with the cracked startup.exe loads up the splash screen and game, but an error pops up telling you to double click startup.exe to play gears of war.

Ive been searching the net for a while to no avail, maybe its a matter of waiting for a newer nocd crack.

Does the game start up ok if you use your original disc ?

My dvd drive recently malfunctioned and Im still awaiting my new drive, it was a god send that there was a crack for the original version so I could continue playing, but since patching I can find no other workaround. I refered to the ISO because i always backup my games to a seperate drive, its something ive always done incase I lose my cd's. So yeah obviously I cant re-install the game so im stuck with the patched version.

Whenever you upgrade your PC, keep the old DVD drive so that you have backup hardware for such purposes. You see, in its current state, your request is against forum rule #1.

I have the same problems after patching the game to the updated version.

Penkster: Game startsup okay when disc is in drive.
But when I try to start with nodvd exe game crashes and you go back to destop after the Epic and Microsoft intro.

We all need to wait for a new crack then I suppose.

Gears OF War
 

I am writing this to find out what can be done about the game crashing. I have it for the pc. I have the nvidia 8800gtx with 746 ram onboard, 2gb memory, and a amd 6400+ processor with an AM2 slot and running vista. downloaded the patch and still having problems playing the game. I don't have a problem with no other game like Crysis, Timeshift, or even Call of Duty (advanced warfare). can anybody help. I don't even have a problem running Lost Planet. So, what can be done.

upgrade to xp

I'd have to agree with WardoggOne on this one :cool:

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