Gears of War digital signature patch released

Demi Fiend · February 9th, 2009

Go and fix your game:

News: Gears of War Patch #3 - GamersHell.com

Paratech · February 9th, 2009

Does this fix the limited installs?

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Demi Fiend · February 9th, 2009

Dunno. It fixes that issue related to the digital signature that was preventing people from playing it. Here's more details:

January 31, 2009 - Recently players of Gears of War on PC found the title was no longer able to launch. Epic Games responded to our inquiry regarding what the problem was and what's being done to fix it. The following is from studio vice president Mark Rein.

"The online cheat detection features in Gears of War for Windows are based on digital signatures. Well, we made an embarrassing mistake: we signed the executable with a certificate that expired in a way that broke the game.

We're working with Microsoft to re-sign the binaries properly, and hope to have this fixed very soon. We know how much this situation sucks, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

In the mean time a work-around for this is to set your computer's date back to a date before today."

Last edited by Demi Fiend; February 9th, 2009 at 15:44..

Spyhop · February 9th, 2009

It boggles me how quickly Epic games went from epic win to epic failure. They used to have next to no drm on their games. UT2004 would play without the disc. UT2003 and 2004 ran natively in linux with no trouble at all.

Now they barely support the PC market and their drm is horrible. I stopped supporting them.

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Demi Fiend · February 9th, 2009

This kind of retarded policy is spreading like a virus... EA, Rockstar, Epic... I won't be supporting any of those companies from now on. I'll boycott any company that uses Securom or any other kind of restriction in their games.

Samor · February 9th, 2009

I've been buying/supporting pc gaming for a long time now, but I also feel like giving up on it.

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**Cid Highwind** · February 9th, 2009

It is indeed retarded that you need to resort visiting sites associated with warez in order to get your legit copy to work. I had the same experience with Test Drive Unlimited, and I'll be damned to run any Securom executable here before having it replaced. I wonder how much of that rootkit I get installed upon the game's installation anyway.

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Demi Fiend · February 10th, 2009

The most retarded part is that this kind of policy simply doesn't raise their income man. They are just losing cash with this.

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February 9th, 2009	#2 (permalink)
Paratech Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Franklin, Pa Posts: 4,133	Does this fix the limited installs? __________________ -Dreams of getting a new 360 XBOX in 201x. -Current consoles: Playstation 2 and Wii, also has DS/GBA and a PSP 3000 -PC: AMD 5000 2.6 Dual Core, 2GB Ram, 8600 GeForce GT video card, SB Live!, Win XP SP3

February 9th, 2009	#3 (permalink)
Demi Fiend Banned Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brazil/Pindamonhangaba Posts: 2,818	Dunno. It fixes that issue related to the digital signature that was preventing people from playing it. Here's more details: January 31, 2009 - Recently players of Gears of War on PC found the title was no longer able to launch. Epic Games responded to our inquiry regarding what the problem was and what's being done to fix it. The following is from studio vice president Mark Rein. "The online cheat detection features in Gears of War for Windows are based on digital signatures. Well, we made an embarrassing mistake: we signed the executable with a certificate that expired in a way that broke the game. We're working with Microsoft to re-sign the binaries properly, and hope to have this fixed very soon. We know how much this situation sucks, and we apologize for the inconvenience. In the mean time a work-around for this is to set your computer's date back to a date before today." Last edited by Demi Fiend; February 9th, 2009 at 15:44..

February 9th, 2009	#4 (permalink)
Spyhop Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Edmonton Posts: 3,823	It boggles me how quickly Epic games went from epic win to epic failure. They used to have next to no drm on their games. UT2004 would play without the disc. UT2003 and 2004 ran natively in linux with no trouble at all. Now they barely support the PC market and their drm is horrible. I stopped supporting them. __________________ WINTERFELL - C2D E8400 - DFI Lanparty JR P45-T2RS MATX Motherboard - Mushkin Redline PC2 8000 DDr2 - EVGA Geforce GTX 285 - Silverstone SG01 case RIVERRUN - Pentium DC 2.5ghz - 4GB OCZ DDR2 - Cheapie ASUS Motherboard w/onboard vid - Antec Sonata III KING'S LANDING - 80GB Playstation 3 Last edited by Spyhop; February 9th, 2009 at 16:16..

February 9th, 2009	#5 (permalink)
Demi Fiend Banned Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brazil/Pindamonhangaba Posts: 2,818	This kind of retarded policy is spreading like a virus... EA, Rockstar, Epic... I won't be supporting any of those companies from now on. I'll boycott any company that uses Securom or any other kind of restriction in their games.

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Cid Highwind Human Metal Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Holland / Hungary Posts: 13,548	It is indeed retarded that you need to resort visiting sites associated with warez in order to get your legit copy to work. I had the same experience with Test Drive Unlimited, and I'll be damned to run any Securom executable here before having it replaced. I wonder how much of that rootkit I get installed upon the game's installation anyway. __________________ PC Specs: CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 / 1024MB / Core: 801 / Mem: 1000 Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 (rev 2.1) SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 @ 4-4-4-12 ~ 800MHz HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint, 32MB PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 19201200 Geometry Wars: 198.400 Lumines: 999.999 Join the NGEmu Folding @ Home community NOW!*

February 10th, 2009	#8 (permalink)
Demi Fiend Banned Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brazil/Pindamonhangaba Posts: 2,818	The most retarded part is that this kind of policy simply doesn't raise their income man. They are just losing cash with this.