My sea of thieves won't let me in

Gavinrjohnson · Dec 5, 2023

Ok so I've been trying to get my sea of thieves to launch for a few days. I'm on xbox app on my windows 11 pc. But it's absolutely refusing to download into the correct storage. It straight up created a new drive to try to download in amd as you can imagine it won't open when downloading to that drive. I've tried everything I've restarted my pc, Uninstalled and re installed it about a dozen times I've tried changing its download spot but like I said even if I'm selecting my ssd it wants to download into a phantom D drive. And every time I open it it crashes and I get a different error code EVERY SINGLE TIME. HELP

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Tomm_A

Hello Gavinrjohnson,

Greetings!

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

It seems that you are having issue installing the game in different drive of your PC. Let us check and see on what we can do to help resolve your concern in a timely manner.

Games must be installed to drives formatted as an NTFS volume with a 4K cluster size. Install attempts to any other volume type will not be supported. You can allocate a 4K cluster size for drive where you are trying to install the game by formatting the partition and specifying the desired cluster size. Please note that formatting a partition will erase all data on it, so make sure to back up any important files before proceeding.

Press Win + E to open Windows File Explorer.
Right-click on the partition you want to format and select Format.
In the Format window, click on the Allocation Unit Size drop-down menu and select 4096 bytes.
Select Quick Format and click on Start.
A warning message will appear, click on Yes to continue.

For your reference, see: Game installation issues on PC | Xbox Support

On the other hand, see the troubleshooting steps provided by the game support on the link below:

Sea of Thieves - Support - Windows - Sea of Thieves is not Launching

We look forward to your response. Kindly let us know, if there is any misunderstanding or clarifications of our description by sending us a reply.

Sincerely,

Tomm_A

Hello Gavinrjohnson,

We haven't heard from you, so we assume that your issue has already been addressed. We will not be monitoring this thread moving forward so, if you need further assistance, please create a new thread to discuss these concerns by clicking this link: Create a new question (microsoft.com)

Thank you for your understanding.

Respectfully,

WUIJIBOBO

Absolutely negative interest in me for Atlas. Sea of Thieves does a perfect job of scratching my piracy itch, from everything I heard about Ark, and everything I've seen of Atlas, it really won't do the job for me that Sea of Thieves does. It is however
great that there are all these options emerging on the horizon in the pirate genre!

GabrielGolden1

So i went to update destiny 2 and it uninstalled my game.... Then i tried to play sea of thieves and it wouldnt let me get past the loading screen. My wife who is hardlined to the same internet loaded into sea of thieves just fine.... what is going on

Smwutches

This is currently a known issue that is being worked on.

My sea of thieves won't let me in