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Fun fact: on a new X570 motherboard with PCIe Gen4 SSD, I saw sustained read/write speeds of 1.5GB/s for about a minute while Gears 5 installed. You should see a progress bar across the top of the PowerShell screen indicating installation progress. Open a PowerShell prompt (Win+X and then "I" should do it), navigate to the correct folder ("cd $env:USERPROFILE\Downloads"), and then run the PowerShell cmdlet add-appxpackage with the file (so "add-appxpackage Microsoft.HalifaxBaseGame_1.1.56.0_圆4_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixvc" for Gears 5).
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Once the download was finished, I ended up with a single massive file, named "Microsoft.HalifaxBaseGame_1.1.56.0_圆4_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixvc", but what do you do with this? The final step is to install the application via PowerShell. Many games are quite large-Gears of War 5 checks in at 66GB-so this can take a while.
Again, from the Reddit thread, I used Firefox with the DownThemAll extension. Anyway, grab that URL and then you'll probably want to paste it into a file downloading utility. I did this for Gears of War 5 and got a link that was at, but it will vary by region and game. In Fiddler, you should see a bunch of requests show up for a Microsoft URL of some form.
Install Fiddler and get it running, and then start the download of whatever game/app you want on the Windows Store. First, you need an application to monitor network traffic, and the free utility Fiddler is recommended. This old Forza Horizon 3 Reddit thread has the details, which I'll summarize here. That might not be such a horrible thing if you're dealing with Candy Crush Saga, but the bigger games like Forza, Sea of Thieves, and Gears can easily register at more than 50GB.īut! There is a sort of workaround if you haven't yet downloaded the game and you know you want to have it on multiple PCs. Your only option is to download the entire game, again, on another PC. If you've already downloaded a game in the Windows Store, you're pretty much out of luck. The Microsoft Store won't recognize the files and it won't have the appropriate license.
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But even if you do take ownership and give your account full access rights-on both the source and destination PCs-and then copy the files over, there's a problem. The files themselves are initially owned by the TrustedInstaller user, and you probably don't want to take ownership as it can screw things up. Or at least, I couldn't get it to work after much effort.
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Do you want to transfer an existing game download from one PC to another, without downloading the game again? Too bad! You can't do it.
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Microsoft Store: And finally, the black sheep of digital software platforms known as the Microsoft Store (or formerly, Windows Store).
Yes, this is a pain in the butt compared to Uplay or GOG, but at least it's possible. Whether your cloud saves will come along for the ride is another story. It can take several minutes on a slower drive to validate the files, but eventually the game should be available to play. You should see the game begin validation of files-open Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Esc) and look at the Performance tab, and your network connection should show very little activity while your storage drive (C:, D:, or whatever) should show a heavy workload. You want the files and folders from within the game folder, and not the root game folder-so as an example for me, that's the files in "C:\Games\Epic Games\Control" that has 69 items in the root folder, including four folders.įinally, once the file copy is finished, restart the Epic Games Launcher, go to the Library, and click resume on the game. Basically, find the game folder on the new PC where EGS started to download the files, and look for an ".egstore" folder, and then within that should be an "Installation" folder. Now, copy the files from the original PC location (mine are in D:\Games\Epic Games, but the default is in "C:\Program Files"), but the destination folder may vary a bit. Once the install/download process starts, let it grab the first 20MB or so and then pause it, and then exit the Epic Games Launcher. Go to your library, find the game you want to transfer from the other PC, and click the Install button.
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First, get the Epic Games Launcher installed on the new PC, log in, and get the confirmation email code for your account (which can sometimes take several minutes to arrive). Epic Games Launcher: This one will involve more work, but if you're familiar enough with PCs and Windows Explorer, it's possible to skip a full second (or third…) download of any game on EGS.