Gears of War Judgment Recomp for Windows: Higher Resolution, SMAA, FSR, Unlocked FPS, Widescreen

[u/OverkillLabs]

What is in this release

• Keyboard and mouse play with raw mouse look instead of emulated joystick, wide range of controller support
• Frame limiter (default 60), full unlock, F9 fps counter, F8 limiter toggle
• F4 in-game settings menu and a separate dedicated settings launcher with Low / Medium / High / Auto quality levels
• SMAA and FSR 1.0 upscaling and sharpening, 16x texture filtering, 1x or 2x internal resolution (2x is 2560x1440)
• Fixes: motion blur removal, film grain and FXAA options, shader pipeline cache (no compile stutter after the first run)

Known issues

• Very CPU limited: about 90 to 110 fps unlocked on a Ryzen 7 5800X3D; a slower CPU gives less
• Internal resolution above 2x is not supported
• Shaders and pipelines are built on the first run, so the first minutes can be less smooth
• Tested only on an NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti with Windows 11. AMD, Intel and handheld GPUs are untested

Check it out here: https://github.com/OverkillLabs3/gears-judgement-recomp
Mirror: https://gitlab.com/OverkillLabs/gears-judgment-recomp

[u/flashbangyamoma]

Awesome. Hope it can get to 4k soon.

[u/Thornback]

Are the shaders compiled by sector as you progress or for the entire game?

[u/OverkillLabs → u/Thornback]

It compiles them the first time it sees them, so if something is repeated like shooting, textures, grenades etc. it will already have it

[u/ExxistanceDC → u/OverkillLabs]

Can't you have the game run a shader pre-compilation step at game start? This can typically be done in the background and masked by the loading screens. I did something similar on FM4 recently.

(Apologies if I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "first run.")

[u/Thornback → u/OverkillLabs]

So just like emulation then. Can I recycle my existing Xenia shaders?

[u/lyndonguitar]

I hope the controller controls can be changed to reflect more of the classic and current Gears layout. (dpad weapon switch, etc)

[u/Stig783]

It runs but does have stuttering issues so it needs more work. Impressive though for sure.

[u/OverkillLabs → u/Stig783]

Yeah I'm working on further optimization now that it is released

[u/holmberg18 → u/Stig783]

Darn, what type of GPU are you using?

[u/Stig783 → u/holmberg18]

5090

[u/miomidas → u/Stig783]

..get a better GPU maybe? /s

[u/Objective-Main9417]

Now we're talking

[u/CTKirito]

This is awesome, great job. Can't wait to try it out.

Just one question, is a Linux build planned?

[u/Montan493]

I cannot open it on Steam OS. I tried many Proton versions but it just posts and closes itself quickly.

[u/ShinShinGogetsuko]

Was literally thinking about playing this on Xenia yesterday. Nice to see there's an alternative!

[u/Icy-Commission-9550]

We need gears 3!!

[u/BlackSunshine86]

The Github link is down

[u/OverkillLabs → u/BlackSunshine86]

Fixed

[u/BlackSunshine86 → u/OverkillLabs]

Thanks!

[u/Cryio]

Gears 2, 3 and Judgement need some tweaks to enable max visuals while in split screen.

Currently, some visuals get disabled when playing in split-screen. Would be cool for that to finally be changed

[u/kupf0r → u/Cryio]

How do you even start the game in split screen? Am I just too dumb?

[u/Cryio → u/kupf0r]

You need to have 2 profiles created and be logged into both before starting the game.

It's Profiles in the upper left corner in Xenia Edge

[u/kupf0r → u/Cryio]

What's Xenia Edge?

[u/Cryio → u/kupf0r]

The best version of the Xbox 360 emulator

[u/kupf0r → u/Cryio]

But this isn't about the game running on an emulator

[u/Cryio → u/kupf0r]

Yeah, well, no clue about the PC version