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DRM Shuts Down Gears of War PC - Updated
If you've fired up Gears of War (PC) over the last few days you've been greeted with an error message that says
path\directory\wargame-g4wlive.exe: You cannot run the game with modified executable code. Pleast reinstall the game.
A drop-dead date for legitimate owners?
It turns outthat the Windows digital certificate for the game's DRM
expired on January 28, 2009. Epic Games' Joe Graf made
a statementon the official forum that
We have been notified of the issue and are working with Microsoft to get it resolved. Sorry for any problems related to this. I'll post more once we have a resolution.
In the meantime, if you want to play you can always roll back your system clock.
Update 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.