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Gears of War annoyance #1: Decompression takes forever

by Mike on November 20th, 2007

If you’re cheap like me, then you’re still probably hanging on to your year-old rig even if Crysis or Gears have come out. I’m still hanging on to my Athlon 64, but was smart enough to put in a gig of RAM to run current shooters.

However, I never expected Gears’ installation to take this long.

The actual installation of files took around 15 to 20 minutes. Sure, I can handle 20 minutes. When I thought the wait was over, the game started “Decompressing files” to the tune of 40 fricking minutes. If that wasn’t bad enough, running other apps (i.e. Word or Photoshop) in a PC with 1GB of RAM is taking longer than it should be.

It almost feels like my rig is running with 128MB of RAM. I haven’t even started updating the game yet, and we all know there’s a problem there too.

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