In this guide, you will find how to play Gears of War 2 on PC usign Xenia Canary. It is recommended to play the game on Xenia Canary because its performance is improved even if you use it without patches.
Download Xenia Canary
In this section, we will take you through the steps to download Xenia Canary. By following the steps below, you will be able to extract the downloaded Zip file and create a text file named “portable.txt“.
- The first thing you will need to do is launch the web browser on your computer.
- After that, download the latest version of Xenia Canary.
- After the download of the Zip file is complete, navigate to the folder where the file was saved.
- Right-click on the downloaded Zip file and select the option “Extract” or “Extract All.”
This will initiate the extraction process. - Navigate to the folder where you extracted the contents of the Zip file. Right-click on an empty space within the folder and select “New” from the context menu.
- Then, choose “Text Document” or “New Text File” and name this file as “portable.txt“.
Download Xenia Canary Game Patches
This section describes how to download the lastest Xenia Canary Game Patches. After the dowloading, the users need to move the patches folder to the Xenia Canary directory and enable all the Gears of War 2 game patches.
- After that, open the web browser again on your computer and download the latest Xenia Canary Game Patches.
- Once the download completes, move the Patches folder to the Xenia Canary directory.
- Double-click on the “Patches” folder to open it and look for a search bar or a way to filter the files.
You will find a list of patches files within this folder. - Enter “Gears of War 2” in the search bar to narrow down the patches specifically related to this game.
- You have to enable all the patches by going to the “is_enable” line on every patch in the editor and changing it to True.
Remember to save the file after enabling them all.
Launch Xenia Canary and a config file will be created automatically.
Disable vsync
In this section, we will take you through the steps to disable vsync. Remember if you have a high-end system, you can also increase the resolution.
- Now you need to close Xenia Canary by clicking on the “X” button in the top-right corner of the window.
- Navigate to the directory where Xenia Canary is installed and look for a configuration file.
- Double-click on the config file to open it and use the search functionality of the text editor to find the term “vsync.”
This option controls vertical synchronization. - Change “vsync” to “False“, then save the file and exit.
You can increase the resolution if you have a high-end system.
Run the game
This section describes how to run the game on Xenia Canary after disabling vsync.
- Open the Xenia Canary program on your computer.
- Once Xenia Canary is running, locate the menu or toolbar at the top of the program window. Look for a tab labeled “File” and click on it.
- After that, open your game file and start playing.
How to fix crashes?
While playing the game on Xenia Canary, you may encounter a crash or the game unexpectedly stops working. This section describes how to fix the crashing issues.
To fix it, you need to close the game and then starting it all over again. It might fix the proble.
But if the crash reoccurs repeatedly at the same point, then you can consider using the master build of Xenia Canary.
The master build is typically the stable and more reliable version of the emulator.
