4D5308AB - Gears of War 3

[Gh0stBlade]

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Oct 24, 2015 Tested on https://github.com/xenia-project/xenia/commit/c3ecb1bde938475fa84dccc2f9c353cc752519fd

Issues:

Intro sequence video is visually fine however it's slow, once the title screen is reached the screen remains black with just the music playing. No crashes, and the controls don't seem to work during the black screen as pushing start should progress past the title screen.

Screenshot(s):

Intro Video:

Black Screen:

Logs:

https://gist.github.com/Gh0stblade/27c369630b1bf9865387

Jun 12, 2015 Tested on https://github.com/xenia-project/xenia/commit/6d4d1db3106028cce6e28b5cb099324e146a7a25

You can hear the first second of video audio playing for the logos then it completely locks up.

[Gh0stBlade]

Updated! New suggested tags: gpu-missing-drawing, state-title.

[Sleepy93]

Update

The audio problem looks fixed but the processing is a bit slowly.

Tested

On (https://github.com/benvanik/xenia/commit/38824bbd733ebbb2e78fe6df772f4a4bcfc6a76c)

Issues

!> 00000028 ResolvePath(UPDATE:) failed - no root found

Unimplemented

• XFileSectorInformation
• !> 00000028 Unimplemented XLIVEBASE message app=000000FC, msg=00058046, arg1=0021E000, arg2=4018CF40
• XamPartyGetUserList
• XamPartySendGameInvites
• XamPartySetCustomData
• XamPartyGetBandwidth
• XamShowPartyUI
• XamShowCommunitySessionsUI
• XamVoiceSetMicArrayIdleUsers

Undefined

• !> 00000028 undefined extern call to 82FC819C NetDll_getsockopt
• !> 00000028 undefined extern call to 82FC819C NetDll_getsockopt

GPU

Writes to unk. register

• 0081
• 0082
• 0E00
• 0E40

Log file

GearsOfWar3.txt

Labels

• state-title
• gpu-missing-drawing (black screen)
• kernel-unimplemented-features

[Sebastian-Albino]

any progress?

[Gh0stBlade]

I doubt it, last time I checked still black screen.

[gibbed]

Any further nonsense comments will result in project bans.

[Gh0stBlade]

JUN 29, 2018 Tested with: https://github.com/xenia-project/xenia/commit/f89b4626a37dd4d1e5a817909252d3d4dd054299

Black screen, controls don't work but title screen music plays.

[RohanRahman-s]

could someone try this game again?

[Margen67]

@TGLTClutch No difference.

[ThatAnnoyedGuy]

Do we know what causes the game to get stuck on a black screen?

Keep up the great work

[RohanRahman-s]

@ThatAnnoyedGuy Unreal engine has a different way of allocating memory and xenia doesn't have the required features implemented yet therefore most(if not all) Unreal Engine games get stuck at intro using Xenia.

[FranciscoCarlosJR]

It gets past the intro for me, but then it just goes to a black screen but i can hear the music.

[FranciscoCarlosJR]

log xenia.log

[AlexByte]

@FranciscoCarlosJunior you can play with xenia-canary

[Etokapa]

Tested on https://github.com/xenia-project/xenia/commit/c2e8c5554dcb89099952037571fd9d715f982b6f

Played the prologue until a certain somebody died. Xenia died too. 62FPS with vsync off and shaders cached. Probably Playable. This is a very gpu demanding game. No more gpu issues.

More Screenshots

       

xenia.zip

state-gameplay

[Silergo]

Some spotlights see-through objects.

[lokeshsharmaj]

Seems playable to me I am at Act 2 Chapter 7 without any issue except Pre-rendered BINK videos playing is very slow. 5-10 fps with extreme stuttering (must be due to some encryption or something to bink videos is applied, didn't happen with Gears 2 which didn't have bink encryption or something). In game videos work fine, game works fine, no issues.

[lokeshsharmaj]

Some spotlights see-through objects.

Yes this particular issue is everywhere. Same issue with Gears Judgement, Gears 2 and 3.

[lokeshsharmaj]

There is a bug in Act 3 Chapter Breakneck Run - After Cinematic Pole breaks, camera suddenly moves right size in sky automatically and a dialog is spoken "We have got a reaver in the way" but there is no reaver in the way in Xenia (But there is one in game) and marcus gets killed somehow but it doesn't happen in game. Unplayable after this point. Tried both Xenia Master and Canary 04 March 2021.

EDIT:

Restarting the Chapter fixed the issue.

[lokeshsharmaj]

Finished the game with Xenia Canary. There are some bugs/Issues

1. Prerendered/Bink Cinematics has issues - Extreme Stuttering as mentioned above.
2. Sometimes game gets stuck at some point and things happen which doesn't happen in game. I faced this situation at two points, FIRST at Act 3: Chapter 3: Breakneck Run where reever in the way but doesn't show and Marcus Die. SECOND Before Entering the Tower where, there are two sides to go to tower, game got stuck for me, there was no one left to kill but it was showing to kill everyone. for both points restarting the chapter and not dying worked (Issue may occur again if we die on our first try, then we need to restart chapter again, at least in SECOND point i had to restart the chapter again if i die once, coz Issue happen again if i die on first try).
3. There are some graphical bugs, and those are random and dynamic. Restarting the Xenia fixes these graphical bugs.

Game is amazing, but these are some Issues I faced but I enjoyed the game.

[bomabomaboma]

Some spotlights see-through objects.

This issue can be completely fixed by changing "LensFlares" value to "False" in the UE3 .ini files, and it doesn't compromise image quality in the least. You can also modify MSAA level to either clean up the image or improve framerate.

I'm going to try and find addresses that can be patched, because modifying Coalesced_INT.bin with a hex editor without upsetting the TOC is far from ideal.

BTW, my experience was near perfect 60fps throughout. I didn't have the stuttering issues listed above. Ryzen 9 4900HS, RTX 2060 Max-Q, 16GB RAM

I wouldn't recommend aspiring for 60fps unless you have an NVIDIA or newer AMD card with at least 5-6 tFLOPS. And I'd imagine 2x SSAA is impossible unless you have a 3080.

[lokeshsharmaj]

Some spotlights see-through objects.

This issue can be completely fixed by changing "LensFlares" value to "False" in the UE3 .ini files, and it doesn't compromise image quality in the least. You can also modify MSAA level to either clean up the image or improve framerate.

I'm going to try and find addresses that can be patched, because modifying Coalesced_INT.bin with a hex editor without upsetting the TOC is far from ideal.

BTW, my experience was near perfect 60fps throughout. I didn't have the stuttering issues listed above. Ryzen 9 4900HS, RTX 2060 Max-Q, 16GB RAM

I wouldn't recommend aspiring for 60fps unless you have an NVIDIA or newer AMD card with at least 5-6 tFLOPS. And I'd imagine 2x SSAA is impossible unless you have a 3080.

There is no such thing as UE3.ini for these games.

[bomabomaboma]

No, it's still here. Just not as easy to access as most PC UE3 games.

Coalesced_INT.bin is a version of Unreal Engine 3's .ini files, which use custom headers and layout, which can be viewed in either a custom tool (which I won't mention here), or via editing through Hex editor.

Update: I'll be going through the Gears2/3/Judgement's .xex's this weekend through Ghidra to try and find the specific LensFlare call and disable it.

[Pablo96]

I just found like a bug I dont know if it is the game or the emulator. Everytime I kill the last spawned lambent in this scene (first mission as cole) the game just suddenly kills me. I reproduce it everytime I play.

[bomabomaboma]

This is a known bug with Gears of War 3 kismet scripting in Xenia You have three options:

• Restart the chapter and play the entire way through without dying once.
• Import a 100% savegame and start the game beyond the chapter that is bugged.
• Using the Gears of War 2 Editor, edit the Coalesced_Int.bin file to unlock all chapters.

[aphelion1]

i had the same error but restart the chapter as above says helped me

[RomainGETI]

Hi there, i'm having trouble playing Gears 3 with Xenia, whenever i launch the game, the intro cutscene with all the Epic Games and Microsoft things goes, and whenever i press start to play, the game just crashes when it has to read the already written saves. It's the first time i'm using Xenia, and if there something that I missed, i would be glad if anyone could point it out for me ( sorry for my bad english :) )

[TheoX75]

Hi! I am currently running Xenia (Master @211cc99f4 on Nov 12 2021) running Gears of War 3! I am currently in Act IV Bon Voyage on Hardcore, After beating all the Armored Kentas and all other enemies, the game does not continue. I try to turn the wheel move the stuff and Marcus keeps saying "cant do that yet" is this a know bug?

Here is my system specs. http://speccy.piriform.com/results/VgdfDAodzkA8aPLr5T6OMFp

[Kyogre]

every such problems solved by the first option in this post. If one restart didn't help try again and again until the bug won't appear. And yes, it is a known save corruption bug. I faced it too in this armored kantus battle.

[TheoX75]

every such problems solved by the first solution in this post. If one restart didn't help try again and again until the bug won't appear. And yes, it is a known save corruption bug. I faced it too in this armored kantus battle.

Any links where I can get a save game past that point or a Save Editor since Google gives dead links?

[Kyogre]

where I can get a save game past that point or a Save Editor I never used such things. Cant help you there. I recommend you use first option, not second or third.

[NexusSomnia]

Just got Xenia so I'm trying to get the hang of it. Rendered graphics in Gears 3 come out as a barage of vertical green lines. Other assets are fine such as menus (first screenshot, the menu itself is fine, the images behind it are not) and loading screens, but gameplay is absolutely unintelligible. I'm using a GTX 1050Ti, Ryzen 7 2700X, 32GB of RAM .

[Kyogre]

@NexusSomnia are you using 2K resolution and not using xenia-patches? If so, switch resolution_scale to 1 and enable patches for GoW3, then test again. If I recall correctly that bug is discussed here on reddit.

[NexusSomnia]

@NexusSomnia are you using 2K resolution and not using xenia-patches? If so, switch resolution_scale to 1 and enable patches for GoW3, then test again. If I recall correctly that bug is discussed here on reddit.

Do I need to use Xenia Canary for patches to work? I'm using Master

[NexusSomnia]

@NexusSomnia are you using 2K resolution and not using xenia-patches? If so, switch resolution_scale to 1 and enable patches for GoW3, then test again. If I recall correctly that bug is discussed here on reddit.

Nvm that solved the issue! Now I've got terrible framerates to grapple with lol but that may be a me issue.

[dante3732]

There are places in these game where the game crashes constantly, but it also crashes randomly. Driver give TDR error. It happened beginning with jun 23 2020 build and still not fixed. There are no crashes on previous builds. Windows 11 Pro x64 21H2 AMD Ryzen 5 3600 4.2 Ghz MSI Radeon VEGA 64 8 Gb HBM2 22.5.1 2x8 Gb DDR4 3200

[jfish871]

Played through the game on the latest build of xenia canary as of Sept 5 2022. Faced an issue where reloading from a checkpoint would soft lock the game, reloading from a chapter was the only solution. Also there was an issue where some lens flairs would appear when they should not. Apart from those issues the game is fully playable from start to completion.

[sidhara]

Any solution on the restart chapter problem, the save corruption one? Playing the main campaign in insane it's hard but manageable, the raam shadow campaign it's not viable with that bug.

edit: also funny bug in the under the shadow part insane arcade. Raam takes the place of the tremor and can't control it. Must start the chapter from the title menu to get rid of it

[m013]

stuck at act 2, chapter 3 - 'unbreakable' tried to restart, different versions, canary and master, no success xenia.log

[Potato302]

Got this error a chapter later

[Urielventris1984]

yep having issues on this one i have an amd pc, with amd 6800m and when i play gears 3 it begins and crashes saying this :

[dante3732]

yep having issues on this one i have an amd pc, with amd 6800m and when i play gears 3 it begins and crashes saying this :

Do not hope for a fix. It has been more than 3 years since this regression on AMD GPUs appeared.

Maybe the vulkan will be finished in 5 years and it will be fine there.

[m013]

stuck at act 2, chapter 3 - 'unbreakable' tried to restart, different versions, canary and master, no success xenia.log

manged to fix this by trying another version of the game

[dharp117]

6950xt, 5800x3D Game keeps crashing. I expect this does not like AMD systems whatsoever.

[dante3732]

6950xt, 5800x3D Game keeps crashing. I expect this does not like AMD systems whatsoever.

Try xenia may 26 2020 or earlier and obviously disable rov. https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/releases/tag/tag-660559bd372e34f62979b43fc9bf23b81f236037

[akotlyrov]

This is a known bug with Gears of War 3 kismet scripting in Xenia You have three options:

• Restart the chapter and play the entire way through without dying once.
• Import a 100% savegame and start the game beyond the chapter that is bugged.
• Using the Gears of War 2 Editor, edit the Coalesced_Int.bin file to unlock all chapters.

Where to get 100% savegame for gears 3? There is no way i cant play throw this scene.

[Voidwalker57]

• hello, when i start private multiplayer it works for a minute but crashes in the start. once when the bots and i loaded in ans second when i just started shooting.

[SloaJay]

The source of this particular effects:

Lens flare issue is still present. Build is canary_experimental@5ca173cd4 Otherwise works ok, i'm thinking. Still playing through.

[JACsparr]

The game still some lighting issues and the game can crash (especially at the beginning and in Act 4 Part 6 "Tumba Aguada"), I recommend using Vulkan in these sections.

[Connor10121993]

New here, my interest in Xenia has been the Gears of War games running on steam deck using Xenia proton. It's been hard finding information so this may help others. From a YouTube video on Gears 2 where upon starting game on steam deck would result in a black screen with just the UI and gun fire I learned you needed to add a save from win 10 Xenia and replace the steam deck version. Tested this on Gear 3 and it also works.

GPU set to vulkan Patch activated for unlocked fps and enabled to turn off most settings and turn on the dynamic resolution also set sync to off.

game ran between 20-30 fps slowdowns to low 20s during combat. no combat ares hits mid 40fps havent tried dx12 yet may get better performance.

Graphic glitches same as Gears 2 white flashing textures. But otherwise it was playable.

Going to test the same method using win 10 save on Gears Judgment next.

[Dethcorps51]

New here, my interest in Xenia has been the Gears of War games running on steam deck using Xenia proton. It's been hard finding information so this may help others. From a YouTube video on Gears 2 where upon starting game on steam deck would result in a black screen with just the UI and gun fire I learned you needed to add a save from win 10 Xenia and replace the steam deck version. Tested this on Gear 3 and it also works.

GPU set to vulkan Patch activated for unlocked fps and enabled to turn off most settings and turn on the dynamic resolution also set sync to off.

game ran between 20-30 fps slowdowns to low 20s during combat. no combat ares hits mid 40fps havent tried dx12 yet may get better performance.

Graphic glitches same as Gears 2 white flashing textures. But otherwise it was playable.

Going to test the same method using win 10 save on Gears Judgment next.

Hi, also new. My interest is the same. I got gears 1 running just fine no issues. Now I have the same problem with 2, 3 and judgment. I get into the first mission of the campaign and it just a black screen with ui and gunfire when I press the fire button. Could you show the file structure for where the save file goes?