Gears of War 2 Dirty Disc Error?

my situation is the same as many people's in this forum and its starting TO PISS ME OFF!!.

I got the xbox 360 arcade, with memory unit during black friday, nov 27, 2008. I bought my first game which was FIFA 09. Played it to death with no problems. I played it online with no problems. Played for FOUR HOURS STRAIGHT, online and offline,with no problems. I rented Unreal Tournament 3 from blockbuster 2 weeks ago and PLAYED IT 6 HOURS STRAIGHT online with no problems. I decide to get gears of war 2. I buy the game new and play it on my xbox. After about 45 min or so(it happens randomly) I get the dreadful "unreadable disc" error. Tells me to clean my disc, restart, or contac xbox support. It can't be the scratches cause its brand new. I play again and about maybe 1 hour later I get the same thing. Just to let you know, I'm playing this thing online. THis happens over and over again. Sometimes it takes 30 mins, other times it takes 10 min until I get that stupid error message. I take it back to replace it and the same thing happens. I decide to play a solo campaign and I get about 1 hour through and the same error pops up. I countinue playing the solo campgain, the next day...and I can play it for about 2.5 hours without the error popping up. It seems happen more when I play online. I don't know what to do.I already exchanged the game 3 times. I bought it from gamestop. It can't be my system, cause I can play other games fine. It has to be gears of war 2. It has to be. Does anyoen know if there's going to be a patch to fix this or something???
thanks

My Friend has the same problem as everyone! brand new Gears 2 with brand new 360 arcade, he's returned it once, and still same problem!

has it got something to do with the TV?
or does the xbox 360 need an online update through LIVE?
is it overheating?
is it the RROD error but for GoW 2 discs?

I know why GOW 2 discs are having that problem. I have the same problem to. Okay, if you look on the bottom of your gears of War 2 Disc carefully you will see a slightly dispatched, or slightly fogged area on your disc. That nis creating the problem. Its no dirty disc or anything just microsoft horrible manufacturing. I had the same problem with my first discs but worse because it had 2 places of dispatched area on the cd. My second GOW 2 I had purchased only had 1 defective spot but in the same place and same size as my other cd did. Happend with Xbox 360's in the beginning, messed up xbox's by Microsoft. Microsoft isnt a reliable company in making electronics. We will have to wait until microsoft realizes this and fixes the problem. You can faster this by confronting microsoft, and the store you bought it from saying: Many other people are having this problem around the U.S. and show them the defective spot or spots on cd or how ever you want to say it in your own words. The End.

reply to post by schism85


my xbox is 3 days old.....gears of war 2 is 3 days old. boy i love microsoft. this is my 3rd xbox too.

Buy an external cooling system. its not a matter of the disk being dirty, its a matter of the disk overheating. an external cooling system for your Xbo360 will fix it all.

of course. it might also be the newer xbox360s vs older xbox360s

I got same prob new jasper arcade new Gears2

GOOD NEWS!!!! i think...
i have the arcade and i played the campaign online no problem.... then an update came out for gears 2!!!! i downloaded it and what do you Know!!!! i got that unreadabble disc error, its not the disk or hardware, because i replaced the disk with a fresh one at game stop. ITS THE UPDATE FOR GEARS 2, if you wana play campaign with out a problem, try going to your memory unit or HDD and remove the system updates, then install the ones for your console, but not for gears 2. unfortuunantly you can't go on xbox live with gears 2. i hope they come up with a working update

Hope this helped

reply to post by Anonymous ATS


It's not a cooling problem, if I can get my Gears 2 to load in campaign at all it plays just fine. It just doesn't want to run the program

The Arcade MU is causing it, I can play just fine with it removerd..

Of course this is poinless because without it, I can't save or play online

try clearing your cache, go to memory and select it then press X X RB LB XX and click yes and it should work for a lil bit

totally sucks!!! bought the xbox360 just for GOW2 exchanged it twice and now i cant play it just paid 60 bucks for a broken disc what a scam

well im having the exact same problem thats been listed here and numerous other places on the web.got my copy for xmas and immediately started getting the dre. took it back the next day thinking it was the disk but got the same error on the 2nd copy.got the xbox 360 on black fri.arcade version with memory card.all other games work fine.:bnghd:

To everyone who has this problem, WHAT IS THE CONDITION OF THE DISC?

Most of us have BRAND NEW discs but I want you to compare it to other XBOX 360 discs that you have. Don't bother commenting on used or scratched discs since we all know that these may or may not read any way...

Is the data side of the disc perfectly mirror-like, or is there a WAVY patch that appears as though something was spilled on it?

Everyone seems to blame their XBOX or whatever, but no-one has examined or commented on their disc.

My disc has a wavy region on the data side that appears off-color from the rest of the disc. (I had the same thing on an old XBOX golf game a few years ago with a wavy area that rendered the disc unreadable)

What are your experiences?

reply to post by Anonymous ATS


yeah dude i got an X box three sixty for christmas and the game gears of war 2 and itle let me play for random ammounts of time also..

but i have 2 xboxes now one arcade and one regular the regular one doesnt have the problem im thinking its just the xbox arcades

you know what,....since I wrote this complaint I decided to return my xbox 360 arcade and exchange it for a new one. I still was within the 30 warranty. I went to my nearest best buy and had the "geek squad" take a look at it. He said it was making weird noises.( I never really noticed it) So he let me exchange it for a new one. I did and now I'm p;laying Gears of war just fine. Maybe it was my xbox 360 arcade. Even though I exchanged it for another of the same. I bought my xbox 360 back in November 27, 2008. I exchanged it in December 25, 2008. Was I THAT unlucky to get a bad xbox console? Or are all the xbox 360 console, that were sold during "black friday" faulty??

Hmmmm.........I wonder. When I bought my xbox on "Black friday" it came with 256 memory unit. I wonder if it was the memory unit also????

Who knows and who cares....As long as my game works I guess I have no problems. I'm still under the 30 day warranty so I'm afraid that my new xbox 360 will break AFTER my warrant expires. THEN I"M SCREWED!!!. I"m afraid

I'm having the same exact issue.

This is absolutely ridiculous that it's such a widespread issue and Microsoft nor Epic will admit it.

I'm currently using an Arcade model as well that was purchased about a month ago. The Gears of War 2 game was purchased about 2-3 weeks ago and is in perfect condition. I returned my first GoW2 disc for a new one and it's the same problem.

I'm definitely thinking it's NOT the disc. It is most likely the console dvd drive from what I'm reading. The error I receive is intermittent and happens randomly. Sometimes A LOT, and sometimes very little.

I'm hoping we can all come together and get this issue to burn a flame under Microsoft and get something settled.

I'm so irritated, I was very excited to get this game and play it and now I can't.

Waaaaahhh!!!

Bye!

my friend is having the same exact problem with his brand new xbox 360 arcade system. anyone hear back from microsoft yet? out of curiosity though, for those who have hard drives, have you guys tried copying the game to the hard drive and playing that way? i think this might be the temporary solution until microsoft figures what to do with this problem. he just got a hard drive so i'll let you guys know if this way works.