FairXchange
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Is there actually a defense for the Windows store? I still can't download Gears 4 from it.
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just bought gears 4 on PC and literally nothing gets it to work.
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This is all on Microsoft. Their proprietary store on their own OS is significantly worse than basically any competitor. Nothing to do with PC gaming. Even uPlay and Origin these days are really good stores compared to the Windows store. And this new iteration of their store has been shit for years, it's just that people actually started to realize it when "real games" started releasing on the store and actual load was put onto it. Microsoft should have really tightened up their store before they started the initiative to make it a Steam competitor.
Sorry OP, I can't help, I don't know of a fix. My experiences with the MS store have been similarly miserable and I just gave up on it. Just not worth the games on it for me.
TheFNEffecT
Member
Not defending or saying that Windows Store is amazing, but a lot of the problems people are having are actually rooted in somewhere else.
I don't know if there is rhyme or reason as to why Windows Store downloads don't work. It is definitely frustrating. Forza Horizon 3 and Gears 4 will download but Recore won't. I get a download error when trying to get the game. I'm hoping it will work after the busy weekend is over but I'm grabbing Gears 4 as I type.
Microsoft needs to get more shit for this, only reason they don't is because barely anyone uses the Windows Store to download full games. It's absolutely farcical. Gears 4 worked for me first time but then patching the game was horrible because you had to have 60GB free on the installation drive. Horizon 3 was also a fiasco to download properly, so many GBs wasted.
potatohead
Member
Welcome to GFWL 2.0.
See The New Boss. Same As The Old Boss.
See The New Boss. Same As The Old Boss.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Have you updated Windows itself?
Try resetting the windows store from command line.
People derping like issues like this are exclusive to the Windows Store. I occasionally have to change my region to the netherlands to get games to work in Steam. This is usually due to a missing update. OP also check the windows store to see if you have an update to the Windows Store app.
People derping like issues like this are exclusive to the Windows Store. I occasionally have to change my region to the netherlands to get games to work in Steam. This is usually due to a missing update. OP also check the windows store to see if you have an update to the Windows Store app.
omnislayer
Member
Yeah this shit happened to me. I couldn't figure out what's wrong, got a refund.
Not buying another thing from that shitty store :/ at least my KI works.
Not buying another thing from that shitty store :/ at least my KI works.
drotahorror
Member
I had all kinds of problems when I did the 'upgrade' to windows 10 from windows 7. A clean install fixed everything.
Windows Store ain't PC gaming.
omnislayer
Member
If the Windows Store was representative of PC gaming as a whole then PC gaming would be dead by now.
Krisprolls
Banned
Yes, it's really comical how bad they are. Why do they even release their store in that state ? I mean it's not like they'll kill Steam if they release earlier so why not at least wait it works.
Abilidebob
Member
This happens every time with those threads. "Surprisingly" enough I don't see as much posts in the "XXX game is UNPLAYABLE on PS4/Pro!" threads that pop-up on Neogaf saying "that's why I don't play on console".
And now, in the next thread about how PC gaming is terrible and so on, you'll get people using this thread as some sort of example that PC releases are all fucked up and you have to spend hours to fix all problems.
Lister
Banned
Pretty much. It's standard Gaf shitposting on PC threads. just ignore it.
I have a lot of issues with the Windows App Store but I've gotten three games from it and not one have them has ever had an issue booting up
Please don't make posts like this when you don't know what you're talking about
In my case when I couldn't get it to run it was because my SSD didn't have twice the HD space needed for the game. See it is an 80GB game but to apply a patch that came out you need an additional 80GB and I didn't have it.
Also from what I have gathered it pretty much has to be installed on your C drive.
Good luck OP. It took me over a day to get mine running.
Also from what I have gathered it pretty much has to be installed on your C drive.
Good luck OP. It took me over a day to get mine running.
| Praxis |
Banned
I bought one game from the Windows store and had trouble starting it up.
Before that I had trouble even downloading it, then had to reinstall windows to fix the mess that store made.
Using that piece of shit is like playing Russian roulette.
You're one to talk. Download issues are INCREDIBLY common on Windows store, so much so that they've had to push updates specifically to alleviate it multiple times, and even after that Gears 4 was set to, for instance, redownload the entire game on one of its early patches for many people that had the supposed update fix.
There's a reason this thread is full of crowdsourced solutions people are copy pasting, and that's because it's a common issue.
Trojan
Member
Has MS even publicly addressed or acknowledged the myriad issues people still have with downloading large PC games from the Windows Store? I'm kind of stunned that these stories happen so frequently. Without any comment on the WinStore situation, it sends the message that they give zero fucks about prioritizing PC gaming.
worst case scenario op, try a fresh windows 10 installation. Was having problems with weird sounds and games crashing when alt tabbing between windowed and fullscreen. After running scanners and doing clean driver installations, i still had the problem so did the fresh install. What's cool was that doing the fresh install kept some of my settings and all programs installed on other drives still worked. I just had to reinstall programs/apps that were previously installed on the system drive. You even have the options of keeping non-program files on system drive.
http://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-refresh-tool-do-clean-install-windows-10
http://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-refresh-tool-do-clean-install-windows-10
The same killer instinct that ran twice as fast if you had a 120 hz monitor because they tied FPS to refresh rate?
No, seems to fit the standard Windows Store mold.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
OP do you have the anniversary update to windows 10?
| Praxis |
Banned
You usually can't even download the game if you don't. That's what happened with Forza anyway, the download button was just greyed out.
Fox_Mulder
Rockefellers. Skull and Bones. Microsoft. Al Qaeda. A Cabal of Bankers. The melting point of steel. What do these things have in common? Wake up sheeple, the landfill wasn't even REAL!
PC was a mistake
Diddy Kong
Banned
You did it! Good job!
Hari Seldon
Member
Lol this is worse than GFWL at this point. At least that worked until they abandoned it.
*e-dick size increased 1 inch*
Blam
Member
https://partner.support.services.microsoft.com/en-us/contact/menu/
Also a good place.
What's your problem with it?
I'd also like to say that the people who are shit talking the WStore are a vocal minority from what I can tell. All these people derailing the thread instead of helping OP.
This post is amazing. I guess you couldn't find a way to defend the indefensible.
Is anyone even using the terrible Windows Store? Doesn't seem like it has any kind of meaningful market share.
Blam
Member
Yes, people are using it to play Forza Horizon 3, and Gears of War 4, Minecraft, Halo 5: Forge, ReCore, Quantum Break, Killer Instinct, etc.
Like come on the store isn't fucking trash.
SRTtoZ
Member
The games are fine, but the store is trash. I got Gears4 for free from buying a 1070 but the biggest issue I faced was downloading the thing. I had to restart and cancel it about 10 times and even then I could only get it to download at CRAWLING speeds. I had to dedicate an entire day to download a game that should have been downloaded in a few hours. In 2017 that's a joke.
Blam
Member
Yes bring my post out of context, because I had also linked a different support page in that comment. Come on m8.
Also to OP try playing the game on a different account. That might fix it.
You know what else might fix it? The solution he had a full page ago that actually fixed his problem.
Blam
Member
kk boi then this thread should be locked.
So let's go back to your last two posts - you don't see how suggesting to the guy to make a second account just to use the game he purchased isn't at odds with your claim that "Like come on the store isn't fucking trash"?
ss_lemonade
Member
All my ms store games are on my non main HDD so no, it doesn't have to be in the C drive. I did have the same problem of needing something crazy like 180gb to install a small patch. There wasn't even any indication that it was making a second copy of the game because the whole process was masked by the patch download process T_T
Blam
Member
That's not a windows store problem. That's an actual bug with the profile system on windows. It's been plaguing old accounts. I mean my account is currently being effected by the bug.
Whew, hear that guys, it's not a fault of using the windows store. It's merely a fault of the underlying technology built into the operating system that is crucial to executing anything bought off the store in the first place. I'm sure that totally makes people happy to use said store.
Blam
Member
I thought I'd be able to have a civil conversation, but clearly not so I'm done with this. I don't care enough to sway your opinion.
I was just trying to inform you and others that it wasn't the store but a bug that only affects old windows accounts.
Your posts say otherwise. Especially the one calling for the thread to be locked because you didn't want people badmouthing the windows store.
That's a real neat meaningless distinction.
Patrick S.
Banned
Hey, Krejlooc is back, cool. What are your thoughts on Daytona USA 3? 
Sorry for derail
Sorry for derail
Snkfanatic
Banned
Riveting. No problems ever happen on consoles right guys?
Blam
Member
Wait what? I'm asking for it to be closed because the problem was solved. If you wanna bad mouth the WS Store make another thread for it.