PC Game Pass (was Xbox Game Pass for PC)

Unseul · 19 Dec 2019 at 11:28

Phoenix point is now released.

kinger8938 · 19 Dec 2019 at 11:31

Does anyone know if this platform supports cloud saves? A out to take my PC down and build my new one. Not that far in any one game but wouldnt want to restart forza for example.

Thanks

Metalface Mark · 19 Dec 2019 at 12:39

kinger8938 said:
Does anyone know if this platform supports cloud saves? A out to take my PC down and build my new one. Not that far in any one game but wouldnt want to restart forza for example.

Thanks

Some games have cloud save - some dont. On my two pc's i can pick up where i left off on halo reach, but on rage 2 i had to start a new game.

elh_2009 · 19 Dec 2019 at 12:57

Unseul said:
Phoenix point is now released.

excellent! been waiting for this

VincentHanna · 19 Dec 2019 at 13:13

Metalface Mark said:
Some games have cloud save - some dont. On my two pc's i can pick up where i left off on halo reach, but on rage 2 i had to start a new game.

Assume Microsoft first party titles do, and nothing else does.

ic1male · 19 Dec 2019 at 14:30

kinger8938 said:
Does anyone know if this platform supports cloud saves? A out to take my PC down and build my new one. Not that far in any one game but wouldnt want to restart forza for example.

Thanks

You can find this information in the Xbox app. On a game's page, under Capabilities. "Xbox Live cloud saves" is what you're looking for. For example, Metro Exodus says it, Rage 2 doesn't.

Thesman106 · 21 Dec 2019 at 02:06

Tombstone said:
You would have to define what you personally consider worthwhile, but ...

The Outer Worlds
Rage 2
Middle Earth : Shadow of War
Dead by Daylight
Forza Horizon 4
Astroneer
Sea of Thieves
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Metro Exodus
State of Decay 2
Dishonoured 2
Dead Cells
Kingdom Come Deliverence
Hellblade: Senua Sacrifice

And soon, Phoenix Point and the new MS Flight Simulator

All immediately come to mind.

I guess theres a few games I'd like to try out. Wasn't rage 2 released recently? Couldn't hurt to knock it out

deFiniLoGy said:
Thanks for the tip.

Xbox live ultimate until dec 2022 for £120, not a bad deal

Where did you get this deal from? If there are new games coming to the service, paying £40 a year doesn't seem like too bad of a deal

McPhee · 21 Dec 2019 at 10:01

Thesman106 said:
Where did you get this deal from? If there are new games coming to the service, paying £40 a year doesn't seem like too bad of a deal

Find a cheap source for Xbox Live Gold membership. Buy and redeem up to three years. Then take out a Game Pass trial. You'll be offered the opportunity to upgrade your current subscription for £1.

If you bought 3x 12 month codes off CDKeys, with the 2% discount code, it would cost you less than £120. If you already have a subscription running, it may be better to buy a different combination of codes as you lose anything that takes your subscription beyond three years.

There are other methods that potentially give you the pass even cheaper. But this is the simplest one.

Thesman106 · 22 Dec 2019 at 20:38

satchef1 said:
Find a cheap source for Xbox Live Gold membership. Buy and redeem up to three years. Then take out a Game Pass trial. You'll be offered the opportunity to upgrade your current subscription for £1.

If you bought 3x 12 month codes off CDKeys, with the 2% discount code, it would cost you less than £120. If you already have a subscription running, it may be better to buy a different combination of codes as you lose anything that takes your subscription beyond three years.

There are other methods that potentially give you the pass even cheaper. But this is the simplest one.

Damn this is too big brain for me to comprehend. I'm gonna look into this regardless. Thanks!

Yrkoon · 29 Dec 2019 at 23:21

ok just got a new motherboard and processor and i done a new install of windows 10.

i installed the xbox app again and it is signed in but no games listed and if i select a different drive as default it tells me it will delete the sotred apps from a different device then it throws me up error code
0x80070005.

not sure what im doing wrong

, so tired got my pc built earlier then done dads with my old parts im so knackered lol

AWPC · 30 Dec 2019 at 08:13

Yrkoon said:
ok just got a new motherboard and processor and i done a new install of windows 10.

i installed the xbox app again and it is signed in but no games listed and if i select a different drive as default it tells me it will delete the sotred apps from a different device then it throws me up error code
0x80070005.

not sure what im doing wrong , so tired got my pc built earlier then done dads with my old parts im so knackered lol

Win 10 needs to be the latest version with all updates installed for the XGP app to work. So if you just reinstalled Win10 you need to update it to build 1909 I think then go to the Windows Store & update all the apps on there. It needs the very latest or close to it then it works just fine.

Yrkoon · 31 Dec 2019 at 02:39

AWPC said:
Win 10 needs to be the latest version with all updates installed for the XGP app to work. So if you just reinstalled Win10 you need to update it to build 1909 I think then go to the Windows Store & update all the apps on there. It needs the very latest or close to it then it works just fine.

thanks for trying to help but it was not that, i could install games and stuff on other drives but i had a locked out folder on 1 single harddrive, the winapps one with over 400 gig of data and i couldnt get rid of it or use it.

ended up having to claim permission to access it and some faffing about later and some use of safe mode i got rid of it and i can now use my biggest drive for game pass again, such a pain in the ass lol

i suspected game pass wouldnt allow me to install anything to that drive because of a prexisting winapps folder from my old windows install, as soon as i got rid of it i could select that drive with no problems.

this is what led me on the right track, a few posts down u get the reclaim ownership of a folder/file etc

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...amefiles/69da5255-4b05-4805-8e69-4e770f413efa

just dropping this here for any one that needs it in the future

mattydoughts · 2 Jan 2020 at 17:11

Love the Game Pass, such great value.
Going to install Halo Reach but you need the Masterchief Collection, anyone know the full install size?

McPhee · 2 Jan 2020 at 21:04

MCC is just Reach for now.

But you can install individual games through MCC anyway.

Metalface Mark · 3 Jan 2020 at 12:26

Any one else have problem with phoenix point just kinda freezing where you cant click anything? Cant get to the options to fix it either with everything stuck behind gamepass. Very frustrating.

sgavan · 3 Jan 2020 at 12:37

Metalface Mark said:
Any one else have problem with phoenix point just kinda freezing where you cant click anything? Cant get to the options to fix it either with everything stuck behind gamepass. Very frustrating.

I had this yesterday and had to force close it, happened twice and not gone back to test yet.

Metalface Mark · 4 Jan 2020 at 20:10

i just uninstalled it, very annoying.

koooowweeee · 4 Jan 2020 at 21:01

Just played the new dirt rally on the Xbox game pass ...

Is it me or is it very slow?

I've always been a pc gamer. Right from doom 1 and later when Colin McRae came out on windows 95 I was hooked on pc gaming.

But I've just had 20 mins on the new dirt and I'm shocked?!

It's either I'm to drunk, the Xbox pass slows games down as it's really a console port or worst fear is that console, is just really crap?

Or is it that the new dirt is crap as well as above?

ak22 · 4 Jan 2020 at 23:39

Anyone have issues with The Outer Worlds? it keeps crashing

NZXT30 · 4 Jan 2020 at 23:48

koooowweeee said:
Just played the new dirt rally on the Xbox game pass ...

Is it me or is it very slow?

I've always been a pc gamer. Right from doom 1 and later when Colin McRae came out on windows 95 I was hooked on pc gaming.

But I've just had 20 mins on the new dirt and I'm shocked?!

It's either I'm to drunk, the Xbox pass slows games down as it's really a console port or worst fear is that console, is just really crap?

Or is it that the new dirt is crap as well as above?

Dirt rally is a simulator and the best rally game ever. You should also impulse buy a steering wheel before you sober up.