When I decided it was time to play Arx Fatalis, which is Arkane Studios’ very first game, I figured I might as well utilize Xbox Game Pass. It’s also hard to play certain games on the Xbox app on PC when other platforms are more optimized for mods and add-ons. I never found a way to get around this issue, but it didn’t seem to be something impacting users on other platforms. I’d get an unexpected error about how it couldn’t find the game anymore, and this was another situation where I was only able to fix this by restarting my computer. I also had trouble with Disney's Dreamlight Valley it would launch normally when I first downloaded it, but whenever I quit the application, it refused to launch again. I also get signed out of my Xbox account abruptly, and when I try to sign back in, my whole computer freaks out and once again, I need to restart it. I normally fix this by restarting my computer entirely, but the games only occasionally come back if I restart the application a few times. Sometimes, when I launch the Xbox app, a majority of my games will be missing. The Xbox app’s issues don’t end at some games being unplayable. From what I’d looked into online, it seemed to be another case where these problems are easily fixed by purchasing the game on Steam. But frankly, I am far too stubborn (and cheap) to purchase a game I’m barely interested in when I should have access to it through a subscription I’ve been paying for years now.įallout 76 also would not work for me, as I couldn’t even get past the login screen without it breaking, and once again, I didn’t care enough about the game to troubleshoot further. This happened several times before I decided to give up, and while it might seem like the result of the game itself, I looked online and quickly found out players who faced similar issues resolved that problem by buying the game on Steam.

I’d launch the game, jump into a world, and only get to play for up to five minutes before it crashed. These issues continued with the launch of Grounded, and the problem itself was similar.

A couple of months ago, Halo Infinite finally fixed itself, but for nearly half a year, the game didn’t work and I was unable to play it with my friends. I’d occasionally hop back onto Halo Infinite over the course of several months to see if the game was finally fixed, and it never worked. I uninstalled the game, uninstalled the entire Xbox launcher, and I even swapped out GPUs to see if that was somehow the issue.

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