Is Gears of War 4 (PC Version) game fully installed?

Obsessive Power · Jan 30, 2019

Hi,

In late December I built a new gaming PC. I've bought a few digital download games before on the Windows Store, but Forza Horizon 3 was the biggest one prior to Gears of War 4. I'm still pretty new to games downloaded via the Windows Store, the majority
of my PC games are from Steam.

Anyway, I have recently downloaded Gears of War 4. I did this in three parts, .i.e, paused the download, resumed the next time I logged on. On the third part, there looked to be about 2GB to go, but it was downloading really slow. I tried to pause again,
but this time the circle of dots appeared but wouldn't stop, so I closed the Windows Store App down.

Now Gears has stopped downloading, and says the game is 'installed'. How can I be sure of this?

Thanks in advance.

:)

choppyseize

It's a pretty big game file you should be able to see that, If it works when you try to play then you should be good to go. There have been a few people with issues playing that game on PC, I had to download it again so it would work. The first time was
just a black screen.

FreakRoach

Well it's working, so, I'm assuming it's fully installed. I have a decent download speed 170Mb/s, so no biggie. Not sure how it went from 110 or 111GB of 113GB then fully installed though, unless it was caching up.

I'll see how it goes.

If you're able to launch the game and play it as well, as you mentioned, then it means it's fully downloaded. Also, the speed aat which you download a game, also depends on the server.

Obsessive Power

Well it's working, so, I'm assuming it's fully installed. I have a decent download speed 170Mb/s, so no biggie. Not sure how it went from 110 or 111GB of 113GB then fully installed though, unless it was caching up.

I'll see how it goes.

WPAK

Hi there,

the quickest check that I would do is to try and start the game to see what happens.

Even if you close the Windows Store App the download will continue (if it is not Paused) in the background when the PC is powered on. So it could have been the case that the game was downloading when you didn't realise it was doing that.

Mister Beep

Hey there,

Don't fret, all Xbox Play Anywhere games such as Gears of War 4 play on both Xbox One and Windows 10 PC. First, make sure your Windows 10 PC has been fully updated with the Anniversary Update. You can find Windows updates by searching 'Check for updates'
within the Start menu.

Once you've done that, open the Windows Store and navigate to the Gears of War 4 product page to install the game. You must be signed into the same Microsoft Account that owns the Gears of War 4 license to be able to download and install the game on Windows
10.

Keep us posted how it goes!

Is Gears of War 4 (PC Version) game fully installed?