Friday 21st - Hook up to knowledge share anyone?

[Friar]

Anyone fancy hooking up Friday evening to have a multiplayer pootle about and knowledge share? (assuming I can get it installed before then)

[Pooka]

If I'm at home I will join, post a time, please.

[Friar]

say from 8pm BST?

[Jabo]

If I'm free and someone can stream this (Twitch or Steamviewer maybe?) I won't have the game until next week (Thursday) at the earliest though.

[Friar]

happy to hook up when you have it and share what knowledge I have attained - assuming i can get it installed - still having problems.

 

[DD_Arthur]

I will try Friar. Fridays and Saturday  evening have been decreed family lockdown fun evenings by the commander in chief atm. Are you still having trouble getting it going?

[Friar]

ok, no worries.

yes, when I try to install i get and error almost immediately with 0 data down load. the error number says nothing and the link goes to a page that does not exist. packing up work for the day soon and will have another go

[DD_Arthur]

I bought it from Microsoft directly. Everything to do with it’s installation was a pain.  First of all I registered for an XBox for PC account. Then I had to register with Microsoft in order to purchase it. Let’s see...what was next? Oh yeah, I then tried to download it but Microsoft could not find a device to download it to so I had to register my PC with Microsoft- yes really! Then I was able to pre-download it. Only it doesn’t, it only d/l around 900mb which I think must have been the installer before stopping. I was able to download the other 130 odd gig the following morning. To compound matters, none of the above was obvious or straight forward on the various Microsoft web pages I was required to visit.  An absurd process.

[Jabo]

4 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

I bought it from Microsoft directly. Everything to do with it’s installation was a pain.  First of all I registered for an XBox for PC account. Then I had to register with Microsoft in order to purchase it. Let’s see...what was next? Oh yeah, I then tried to download it but Microsoft could not find a device to download it to so I had to register my PC with Microsoft- yes really! Then I was able to pre-download it. Only it doesn’t, it only d/l around 900mb which I think must have been the installer before stopping. I was able to download the other 130 odd gig the following morning. To compound matters, none of the above was obvious or straight forward on the various Microsoft web pages I was required to visit.  An absurd process.

I had a similar issue with Forza Horizon 4. Given that I had to go through the process above for that game, hopefully with installation of this one will be simpler. Will report back.

[Friar]

still no joy after many many attempts trying all sorts of things. At the point of giving up and trying to get my money back. The install process is a joke and simple research on the internet shows how many people are having the same sort of issues.

[Sid]

I agree with the install process. For such a major company and such a big project I am amazed how non intuitive and non supportive ie. lack of hints, it is.

I pre downloaded what was now obviously the installer onto my 'F' drive. I tried to install from the receipt link but it got to the 'Press any key' page and stopped. Only after a lonnng search online and after an uninstall/reinstall, updated windows10 manually to version 2004 (a very long process of almost 2 hours), updated nvidia drivers, did I find out about the xbox app. I didn't have the 'XBox (beta) App' installed - why it didn't say so beats me. So once I had downloaded and installed onto the 'F' drive it then went past the 'Press any key' page and started the process of downloading and installing - all in all about 3 hours. When finished it has started and run fine.

[DD_Arthur]

 Bought the London city buildings expansion as it looks good and it’s an inexpensive way of dipping my toes in the water. I pressed the ‘Buy and Install’ button and went through the payment process and.....er.....where is it? My bank says I’ve paid for it and Microsoft say I own it but.....😱

[Friar]

when i try and install the xbox app it just sits at "making things awesome" and nothing happens.

I have converted my account to a microsoft account to sign onto my pc. still nothing. I have run the various re-sets and cmd promts, still nothing. 

Why is there no check list on how to install.

I am going to have one more go tonight and if I can not do it I am not going to waste any more time when I could be doing other things. It should not be this difficult to install a friggin game for god sake. I get others have done it but there is some process that i am not following or I need to go on some quest on the interweb to find an obscure post that explains that I need to keep my left leg off the floor when clicking run or something.

I made sure my OS is the latest. I have the latest nvidia drivers that are "game ready".  what other hoops must I jump through? 

[Jabo]

PM sent Col.

[Friar]

read - thanks