Gears of War malfunction

I have Vista Ultimate x64, Nvidia 8800M GTX w/DX10, Intel Core 2 Quad
2.4Ghz, 4 GB ram, and so on.
Whenever I open gears of war, it starts with the default preferences,
instead of the ones I chose.
I go to the options, change all of the options again, including the one
that actives the game in DX10. It tells me that in order for the changes
to take effect, that I need to restart the game. I do so, but the same,
default preferences load up, instead of the ones I had recently chosen.
I have updated it, put all the hotfixes, etc., but nothing seems to
work.
Any help? Anyone know which configuration file(s) and which string(s)
within the file I would need to change so that my preferences become the
default?

Thanks


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dx2

For some reason, this folder doesn't exist under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
only under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, and even here, in the Gears of War folder,
there isn't a "SetupPath", only "DefaultValue" and "UploadConfigData". I
created a new string and put what you told me to. I'll see if works. Is
it weird that that string isnt there?
Thanks


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dx2

I haven't tried myself I've seen this in the gears of war website ... so
I guess it should be here but.


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jeez