Xbox App keeps asking me to download Gaming Services

Anonymous
2023-02-08T17:18:19+00:00

I just got Game Pass a few days ago and haven't been able to play it once because every single time I hit on Install a screen telling me to Download Gaming Services keeps popping up even though I've already installed it numerous times. I'm turning to this because I have no idea what to do, I've already tried a bunch of different suggestions from people such as: Repairing and Reseting all the apps, I've tried to uninstall and install with Powershell, I've tried to update through the windows store, I've updated everything on Windows, I tried going into the registry and I deleted the GamingServices and GamingServices.net but Nothing works at all, I've completely given up on this, I feel scammed because I just got Game Pass and I haven't been to play a single game.

One weird thing I noticed and I don't know if this is normal is that when I go over to my account settings on the Xbox App on the segment where it says "GameInstall Options" I get some weird error that says "There was a problem loading installation locations. Try Again" But it never gives me that chance to change anything.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-02-24T12:26:11+00:00

    Hi all! I've finally found a solution that fixes the xbox game pass app! All you need to do is download to the windows media creation tool from MS, run it and select "update this pc" it will basically reinstall windows without removing any of your apps/settings etc. it will take a little time to run but after I ran it and rebooted my PC, I opened the game pass app up and all my games were detected again and I could run and download new games again! No errors or endless cycles of asking me to install Gaming Services it just works again! I'm not sure what caused the issue or why it happened in the first place, but this fix 100% worked for me so I would suggest you guys give it a go for yourself.

    I'm running Win10Pro so I'm not sure if this works for Win11, just give it a try! I still can't believe a multi-billion dollar company like MS can't make a solid and stable app and one that once broken requires you to completely reset your PC for it to work again?!

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-28T01:26:19+00:00

    MY FIX:

    Open powershell as admin, run this:

    get-appxpackage Microsoft.GamingServices | remove-AppxPackage -allusers

    It uninstalls Gaming Services completely.

    Then re-install, it will take a few minutes, then bam, games are available again. Just worked for me!

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-28T08:35:21+00:00

    I already tries that a couple of times, didnt work

    My main issue seems to be that Xbox game services wont start, doesnt matter if i uninstall the thing, it's just off. I can see it in services.msc. Apparently the only fix is to clean install windows, fortunately there's an option to keep my files.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-03-12T10:08:01+00:00

    Just want to say that I had this issue and this is the first thing i tried to fix it and it worked.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-03-16T15:42:18+00:00

    This worked for me, thank you very much. Also noticed that the xbox app is kinda buggy in general, opening stuff in the xbox app, openning the app itself... takes ages, somtimes it doesn't even register.

    UPDATE:

    It did not work for long, an hour or two maybe and sometimes I can download but the downloads are borked. Also tried a fresh install of win 11, but kept the apps and files. Unfortunetly with no luck. Tired of this, so im gonna install halo infinite from steam now, but I don't know what to do with FH5 beacuse I own it on xbox not steam.

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