TLDR: Same GW502 BS as Gears 4. They never tried to optimize or fix it on 4, go figure it doesn't get fixed on 5.

If you're still using an aging rig and any 10 series Nvidia card, stay away. Although not super old 10 series do fairly well for the games I play. I ran campaign all the way to Act III with the graphics set decently(High character detail, Shadows off, everything else on medium-ish settings). Game looked great, I got an occasional GW502 Graphics card stopped responding crash(1 in Act I, 1 in Act II), kept going.

The cutscene for Act III Turntable would drop my card 100% every time. Waited a day for 'Gears 5 drivers', still nothing. Had to drop everything to Off/Low to continue and still got GW502 every half hour or so.

♥♥♥♥, I've even gotten it sitting at the Menu.

Campaign was a little underwhelming, Horde is Horde, won't try Escape or multi since this unoptimized trash crashes like crazy. Spent too many hours trying to make it work to get a refund.

TLDR: Same GW502 BS as Gears 4. They never tried to optimize or fix it on 4, go figure it doesn't get fixed on 5. If you're still using an aging rig and any 10 series Nvidia card, stay away. Although not super old 10 series do fairly well for the games I play. I ran campaign all the way to Act III with the graphics set decently(High character detail, Shadows off, everything else on medium-ish settings). Game looked great, I got an occasional GW502 Graphics card stopped responding crash(1 in Act I, 1 in Act II), kept going. The cutscene for Act III Turntable would drop my card 100% every time. Waited a day for 'Gears 5 drivers', still nothing. Had to drop everything to Off/Low to continue and still got GW502 every half hour or so. Shit, I've even gotten it sitting at the Menu. Campaign was a little underwhelming, Horde is Horde, won't try Escape or multi since this unoptimized trash crashes like crazy. Spent too many hours trying to make it work to get a refund.