Gears of War, DRE, Glitch of War

Unlike the little breakdancing glitch from earlier, which were good for a small laugh, this account from 1UP blogger Rappateng, is more worrisome. He has run into (1) repetitive Disc Read Errors from his Gears of War, and (2) forums with people who have run into repetitive Disc Read Errors from Gears of War.

Rappateng’s GoW was new-buy, his 360’s relatively new (bought May 7, 2006). Still, on November 12th, while trying to get into a multiplayer session, he got his DRE. Checked his disc – “it was flawless” – loaded it up, got a DRE again. Played other games, which worked, played a movie, then tried GoW: DRE. After calling up Xbox support without any helpful result, he went over to the GameStop where he purchased the game – seems that two other guys had the same problem.

Rappateng got home with a new copy. Worked fine until fifteen minutes later: DRE. Worse yet, his 360 refused to load the game at all… Long story short, he’s got a non-working Gears, then he did a little digging, to find a ton of forums with players who’re having similar Glitches of War. MS support can’t help, and Rappateng cites Epic Games“>Mark Rein dropping by in one of those forums, pointing out that Epic can’t help either since Epic Games doesn’t print the discs – Microsoft does that.

Potentially it could be the difficulty of the laser in the DVD drives of some 360 manufacturing batches to read the dual-layered discs that Gears and other games are usually stamped on. Another theory could be the discs themselves, which also makes it a quality control problem. We haven’t seen anything official yet to explain the glitches.

Unlike the little breakdancing glitch from earlier, which were good for a small laugh, this account from 1UP blogger Rappateng, is more worrisome. He has run into (1) repetitive Disc Read Errors from his Gears of War, and (2) forums with people who have run into repetitive Disc Read Errors from Gears of War.

Rappateng’s GoW was new-buy, his 360’s relatively new (bought May 7, 2006). Still, on November 12th, while trying to get into a multiplayer session, he got his DRE. Checked his disc – “it was flawless” – loaded it up, got a DRE again. Played other games, which worked, played a movie, then tried GoW: DRE. After calling up Xbox support without any helpful result, he went over to the GameStop where he purchased the game – seems that two other guys had the same problem.

Rappateng got home with a new copy. Worked fine until fifteen minutes later: DRE. Worse yet, his 360 refused to load the game at all… Long story short, he’s got a non-working Gears, then he did a little digging, to find a ton of forums with players who’re having similar Glitches of War. MS support can’t help, and Rappateng cites Epic Games“>Mark Rein dropping by in one of those forums, pointing out that Epic can’t help either since Epic Games doesn’t print the discs – Microsoft does that.

Potentially it could be the difficulty of the laser in the DVD drives of some 360 manufacturing batches to read the dual-layered discs that Gears and other games are usually stamped on. Another theory could be the discs themselves, which also makes it a quality control problem. We haven’t seen anything official yet to explain the glitches.