Xbox PC app is finally getting an update to stop me rushing to Xbox Series X

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Xbox PC app is finally getting an update to stop me rushing to Xbox Series X

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Microsoft's Xbox app on PC hasn't given me the best PC gaming feel, to the extent that I've uninstalled it multiple times from my desktop PC. So it's music to my ears that Microsoft is making the whole experience of using Xbox Game Pass for PC a lot more than like Steam, Valve's platform that'south basically a cornerstone of any gaming PC.

Microsoft announced it has a new Windows version of the Xbox app for Xbox Insiders that allows better access and control over where games are installed and deeper mod support. About. Damn. Time.

This might seem like a trivial update to stoke my PC gaming burn down, but for me it's significant.

Terminal year, thanks to the cross platform ascendancy of Xbox Game Laissez passer Ultimate, a friend and I decided to play our style through Halo: The Master Chief Collection on PC. For the almost part, it was a joy, cheers to the precision of mouse and keyboard control.

Only then Microsoft decided to curl out an update. And something went incorrect. I don't know if it was my PC or my shoddy cyberspace connection or some quirk with the Xbox app, but an update refused to download at a viable speed for its large size. I was getting mere kilobytes-per-second download speeds. I had heard this was a problem on Microsoft'due south side, but in my frustration I uninstalled Halo; my plan was to download the updated game in full on another machine through a faster connection so transfer the game install over.

Annoyingly, I did all this without realizing that I could get admission to the binder where games that use the Xbox app are installed. Somewhen, I ended up playing the rest of the Principal Chief Drove on my Xbox Serial X.

The current Xbox PC app drives me mad! (Image credit: Future)

Non that I was done with Xbox app frustrations. I've run into failed downloads and updates seemingly not working.

And at present every bit I write this, the Xbox app is insisting I install some other software component to get the Xbox app working properly, but for reasons I've yet to figure out, the Xbox app gets stuck on maxim information technology's installing "Game Services." I can't even seem to run an already installed game; I'm not a violent man but the frustration the Xbox app has acquired makes me want to hurl my PC out of a window.

This could all be an issue on my  side, simply afterwards a quick look on diverse support forums it doesn't appear I'thou alone in having Xbox app bug, most notably around installation.

A lot of this trouble could be solved if the Xbox app allowed me to simply copy over a games apps folder like Steam does; if I'm copying game data from an external SSD on to my PC all I demand to do is put it in the common Steam apps folder then tell Steam to install it. Steam will take the smarts to discover that the data is on my PC and not bother trying to download it; the same can't be said for the Xbox app.

So I'm hoping that this update for Xbox Insiders bears fruit and comes to the total release of the Xbox app, every bit I'd love to play more Game Laissez passer games on my PC without wrangling with the irritating and, in my experience, unfriendly nature of the Xbox app and Microsoft Store.

Roland Moore-Colyer is U.Chiliad. Editor at Tom'south Guide with a focus on news, features and opinion manufactures. He ofttimes writes virtually gaming, phones, laptops and other bits of hardware; he'south also got an interest in cars. When non at his desk Roland tin can exist establish wandering around London, often with a expect of curiosity on his face.

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