Gears of war installation trouble - Saxperience

TheVtrKid · 8th March 2010, 15:29

Im trying to install Gears of war on my PC, when it first starts, i input to install the game on my E:/ which is my other hard drive that i install games onto. It starts installing and it says installing to C:/ which there is only just enough space on the drive. Also when it finishes installation, it comes up decompressing files then some kind of message with a red cross in, decompressing failed or something and then it wont run the game at all, i'm on my 3rd time as we speak trying to install it but if it doesn't work, whats the problem here? I'm on windows 7 and on the box it says XP or VISTA is required but i'm presuming thats just because windows 7 wasn't released when this game was released. Any help guys? Thanks

this is the msg i get in a box with a red cross:

Unhandled Exception

Error number 0x80040702
Description: Failed to load DLL: GameuxInstallHelper

Setup will now terminate. I click ok then it comes up gears of war installtion screen and says
The wizard was interrupted before gears of war could be completely installed or uninstalled. The System has not been modified. To install or uninstall this game at a later time run the installation or uninstalation again.

Saxo-SX · 8th March 2010, 15:55

Is this the original gears of war?

I dont think it works on windows 7 or there is a patch you have to download or something?

EDIT: http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-...gears-war.html

TheVtrKid · 8th March 2010, 16:02

ye the original, i bought it today £4.99 brand new sealed. I'll give that a go, im trying to install again now,

JAM · 8th March 2010, 16:10

According to this thread -

http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/25...atibility.html

Gears of War is marked as x86

TheVtrKid · 8th March 2010, 16:13

What does that mean? When it installs, it goes into my Program Files(x86)>Microsoft Games folder.

TheVtrKid · 8th March 2010, 16:23

the installation has finiished, and its now decompressing files and got further than it did do before, because it crashed before, wouldn't do anything at all, so i had to hit reset button on my tower, not good i know. This game contains some serious bugs, i've been looking on google and so many people have had the same problem, along with other problems with this game. Hopefully i can get it working now though, as i'd love to play this game. Heard its pretty shit hot

TheVtrKid · 8th March 2010, 16:53

hmm ive done all that, applied the latest patch and it still wont work. I try opening it, nothing happens

Just comes up Runtime Error and it has to terminate in an unusual way. WTF man its rly pissing me off

MarkyG · 8th March 2010, 17:05

I had problems at first. Very picky game to install.

Sometimes you have to reset your clock to around march time 2006. then install it. update it, then change the clock back and run it and it should work.

Thats what I had to do anyway. Graphics are so much better than the XBox 360 version but gameplay is a little difficult for me as Im not good at keyboard movement in this, others like Crysis I am but not GoW PC

TheVtrKid · 8th March 2010, 17:18

yeah i read that also. What a piece of shit, ive uninstalled microsoft visual C++ redistributable and installed a newer version, as requested on a site i found, still same thing. This game is a piece of shit already

TheVtrKid · 8th March 2010, 17:58

omg now i cant even uninstall it, says some file cannot be found, please run the uninstallation wizard again. this is the most frustrating game i have ever fucking laid my hand son. What a complete and utter piece of fucking SHITE. Fuck you EPIC, tossers

TheVtrKid · 8th March 2010, 18:06

How do i uninstall the game or get rid of it from my computer. When i insert the disc i cant install, says play or uninstall, cant play cos it wont work, and cant uninstall cos it cant find a certain file, so how the hell do i get rid of it from my computer

Rach125 · 8th March 2010, 21:35

try doing a system restore from a point before you installed the game

TheVtrKid · 9th March 2010, 00:12

ye i restored the system earlier before i had to work and then managed to uninstall it. Going to try to install it again now, after deleting absolutely everything to do with gears of war off my computer.

TheVtrKid · 9th March 2010, 00:26

now it wont even read the DVD at all. I give up, its going on ebay, complete and utter shite game