I made the mistake of buying Gears 5 on the Microsoft store.

[Tiny Trees]

I had heard a lot of dissatisfaction with the MS store, but I risked buying Gears 5 there.

Now I am paying for my mistake. I tried to run Gears 5 today, but once in the main menu I get an error message. It says 'installation is out of date, update and try again'.

I googled how to update it. However Gears 5 does not show up in a list of apps needing updating. Means I can not update. ... It means I have lost my game.

Am not the only person this has happened to, as there are results searching for answers to it. No working fix though.

I will never again buy from the MS store ever. Never.

[Tiny Trees]

After saying never again with MS store, I never faltered.

Hivebusters was on half-price sale, and I wanted it. However thinking back to me not being able to launch Gears 5 stopped me buying it. I re-read my first post in this thread and it woke me up.

[papalazarou]

Publicado originalmente por Tiny Trees:

Publicado originalmente por papalazarou:

MS store is the kiss of death. Its very different in how it works compared to other stores. I would never put it on my system

It's built in to Win 10.

its removed completely from mine with all apps

[[{******---Dead4Life---******}]]

Never had issues with MS store, must be your weak PC or bad internet connection.

Works perfectly here always did. Potato PC are known to run apps badly, probably your case...

[papalazarou]

Publicado originalmente por Dead4Life The Original:

Never had issues with MS store, must be your weak PC or bad internet connection.

Works perfectly here always did. Potato PC are known to run apps badly, probably your case...

i think not
msi tomahawk mag z390
i78700k @4.7ghz
16g ram ddr4 3300
rtx 2060 msi gaming z

its not the fastest system, but it is well optimized

[kripcision]

yeah never use that store. however if you got gamepass you can use the xbox app instead to download games, not sure if you can buy them directly there or not but it works for downloading gamepass games.

[kripcision]

Publicado originalmente por Dead4Life The Original:

Never had issues with MS store, must be your weak PC or bad internet connection.

Works perfectly here always did. Potato PC are known to run apps badly, probably your case...

3 years ago when trying to download gears 4 the download reset itself like 5 times while being a 120gb download, sure my internet was ♥♥♥♥ but i never had that problem with steam.

[[{******---Dead4Life---******}]]

Publicado originalmente por papalazarou:

Publicado originalmente por Dead4Life The Original:

Never had issues with MS store, must be your weak PC or bad internet connection.

Works perfectly here always did. Potato PC are known to run apps badly, probably your case...

i think not
msi tomahawk mag z390
i78700k @4.7ghz
16g ram ddr4 3300
rtx 2060 msi gaming z

its not the fastest system, but it is well optimized

I see, well hopefully it is fixed for you. I assume redownloading the ms store doesn't do anything...
I must say steam is miles better when it comes to game downloads and management.
Good luck

[[{******---Dead4Life---******}]]

Publicado originalmente por kripcision:

Publicado originalmente por Dead4Life The Original:

Never had issues with MS store, must be your weak PC or bad internet connection.

Works perfectly here always did. Potato PC are known to run apps badly, probably your case...

3 years ago when trying to download gears 4 the download reset itself like 5 times while being a 120gb download, sure my internet was ♥♥♥♥ but i never had that problem with steam.

Yeah I apologize for my comment. lol
MS store does require stable internet connection but it shouldn't have reset if most of the files are already downloaded. I think MS store did not improve, it staid the same. Good luck guys.

[Tiny Trees]

Publicado originalmente por kripcision:

3 years ago when trying to download gears 4 the download reset itself like 5 times while being a 120gb download, sure my internet was ♥♥♥♥ but i never had that problem with steam.

I think I remember that with Gears 4. You had to download all in one go. If you paused the download, you had to restart, even though there was a pause button. (I have quite fast internet, but 120GB was a big download.)

I am not sure but I vaguely think that might have been fixed. I think we may be able to pause now with MS store.


Am hoping though that if Gears 5 ever gets updated again, I will still be able to play it. There's another play through of it I think. With my case the last time it would not launch due to needing update, and it would not update.

[acowsik]

You can pause downloads in the Windows store and it resumes where you left off. I have both Gears 4 and Gears 5 through that and never had issues with the download.

[Matt GB]

I am having constant network issues with the Steam version but I've never had a single one with the Windows store version. Whilst I prefer to keep most of my games on Steam for me this title runs a lot better on the MS store.

[Tiny Trees]

I almost broke and bought Hivebusters when it was £7.50 on the MS store. However I am glad I did not. Gears 5 and Hivebusters is about £20 now in sales on Steam. I will wait until it drops further and buy it in a Steam bundle. .. Am after Hivebusters.

It's still tempting on the MS store but potentially losing access to the game altogether is not good. Had I not thought to try to trick the MS store version into updating by moving installation drive. I would still be without Gears 5.

The only other fix was a complete reinstallation.