Gears of War has stopped working....

I recently sold my x360 and bought a brand new PC which I'm so far quite happy with but to day I bought gears of war and I'm absolutely unable to run it.The installation process took around 40 minutes to complete and I'm not so sure it actually completed. After the painfully slow ''decompression of files'' was done the installation simply ended. No ''Finish'' button, no ''would you like to view the readme file'' crap, it just ended. The game doesn't even pop up in the start menu :S
Despite of that I can still run the game from the autostart menu, when you insert the disk, but it shuts down after around 2 minutes and I get my all time favorite windows vista message ''Gears of War has stopped working''....and after about 10 seconds it tells my that the only option is to end the program....I have already tried reinstalling the game and I have my latest video card driver (since the game requested me to install it).My computer specs are:Intel Q6600 - 2GB DDR2 800-RAM
eVGA 8800GTS 320MB (exchanging it out for a 8800GT tomorrow)
Windows vista home premium.I tried gearsofwar.com but I was unable to find any tech support. All other games seem to run fine. I've tried google but pretty much all of the results are from people with faulty x360's. Has anybody here had any problems with this game and perhaps knows a way to solve this??Also: In those 2 minutes I've got the game running I messed around with the video settings and I was unable to set the resolution higher than 1440x900 :S - Is that really the max resolution for this game? ----------------------EDIT: After installing the game 3 times it seems to work by starting it from the games directory but not the autorun menuI still can't set the resolution any higher though. Where the hell is my 1680x1050 epic??Gears of War has stopped working....
As you'll probably already know you're not the only one with this problem,the gears of war forums are flooded with the same complaints as yours.I myself had the same problem,first time I installed there was no screen to confirm the installation was sucssessful,I couldn't view the read-me file and there was no short-cut on desktop,and to top it off it would return to desktop 30 seconds after starting.To cut a long story short,after uninstalling/reinstalling the game 4 times and waisting the best part of a day with this thing I finally got it working,BUT it has some horrendous stuttering and screen-tearing even with v-sync enabled.Epic should be ashamed of themselves for releasing a game in such an appalling state,but thats what happens when you don't hold open beta-testing and release a demo prior to launch.You're best chance is to hold off until it is patched and some new drivers come out to correct the graphics issues,or if you've got a free day sometime soon you could just do what I did and hope you get a clean install.P.S sorry about the wall of text,but I'm f****** angry that Epic have let this happen.EDIT-The max res it goes up to on my comp is 1400 by 900,but thats becuase itsthe max res of my monitor,maybe someone else can answer that.Gears of War has stopped working....
I have just installed GoW for PC and I have run into the exact same problem.It installed clean, however when I run the game it won't let me start the game says I'm not logged in. When I try to log in nothing happens. Also when I try to configure the display settings i can't get it any higher then 1280x768, but my default resolution is 1920x1200.My PC:Windows Vista Ultimate
Pentium Dual Core @ 2.0 Ghz
2 Gb Ram 1066Mhz
eVGA GeForce 8800 GTS SSC 640 Mb
LG Blu-Ray burnerEvery other game, COD4 aside runs mint. (Single player works but not Multiplayer PM for if you can help me).I seriously hope Epic will fix this problem soon