YouTube’s ‘reznoire’ has shared a video, showcasing Gears of War: Judgment running on PC via the Xbox 360 emulator, Xenia. The YouTuber used Xenia’ latest Canary version which came out last month, so this will give you an idea of how the game currently runs with this emulator.
In order to capture the following gameplay footage, reznoire used an Intel Core i9-12900k with an ASUS ROG Strix 3080 White Edition and 32GB of DDR5 5200Mhz RAM.
Now as we can see, Xenia is still unable to emulate Gears of War: Judgment with constant 60fps on PC. From the looks of it, both the CPU and the GPU are underused. As such, there is a bottleneck somewhere else (most likely a code issue) that prevents the emulator from offering a smooth gaming experience.
As we’ve already reported, there is a program that can add Keyboard and Mouse support to Xenia. Thus, in theory, you can play this Gears of War game on PC with a keyboard and mouse (though you won’t have any K&M on-screen prompts).
Gears of War: Judgment is a spin-off of the Gears of War series and a prequel to the entire franchise. The game follows Damon Baird, Augustus Cole and their squad Kilo as they are put on trial for disobeying orders. This game came out exclusively on Xbox 360 in 2013. And no, Epic Games and Microsoft never bothered porting it to the PC. It’s a bummer, but it is what it is.
Speaking of Xenia, the emulator can at least run Red Dead Redemption smoothly. That is of course when using a high-end PC system. Still, and since Rockstar has skipped the PC for the upcoming re-release of Red Dead Redemption, this may be the only way via which PC gamers will be able to enjoy it. Okay okay. We’ll also be able to emulate the Nintendo Switch version via Yuzu or Ryujinx.
Enjoy the video and stay tuned for more!
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