Games For Windows Live Update Problem (Error: 80070643)

Anonymous
2012-03-13T18:12:31+00:00

Hi,

Just installing this month's updates, and I'm having a problem installing one of them. Games For Windows Software 3.5 doesn't seem to want to update and is giving the error code 80070643. Had a quick search round and can't seem to find anything useful. Not sure what's causing this. Anybody else having this issue?

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-03-14T01:03:09+00:00

    I just got done uninstalling everything MS games for Windows everything and the update went away. I then reinstalled the 3.5 version direct from MS and the update reappeared. Doing the update again it still fails with the same error message.

    Everyone around the other forums are complaining about the Windows Live Gaming Client and I have to agree. It's got to be one of the most worthless pieces of code that was ever written.

    Does anyone else here have net framework 3.5 installed along with net framework 4.0?

    I just checked my desktop and the update isn't even offered to me on it and I've got games for windows on it too, what's up with that?

    Offered to one machine and not the other?

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-03-14T00:46:28+00:00

    Thanks for trying francisrossi.  But the log files does not appear to be the right one.  However, you are looking at the correct location, but it's the wrong log file.  This log files is related to the Fixit tool that you install and ran recently.  Do you have another log file that is recent?

    Regards,

     

    Kim

     

     

    That's the only log file I can find there.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-03-13T23:35:53+00:00

    I've been messing with this all afternoon and I'm ready to pull my hair out.

    I've tried all of the things everyone has suggested and the problem still persists.

    Hopefully MS will sort this out and release an update to correct it

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-03-13T23:11:44+00:00

    Thanks but it does not seem to work for some and I think Microsoft should be able to fix this. Thanks anyway

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  5. Anonymous
    2012-03-13T22:50:59+00:00

    It worked for me also, but if you reinstall anything essential related, it offers you the untested buggy update again!

    which fails... again, even though it is showing as previously installed in update log!

    why not leave it broken like msn online tv?

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