Unable to play owned PC gamepass games offline.

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If you’re planning on playing offline, you’ll need to prepare your Windows 10/11 device while you have an online connection. It’s important that you do this while you’re online, as once you go offline, you won’t be able to make these changes.

Note You can only change your designated offline device three times per year.

Prepare your device

If you have multiple Windows 10/11 devices, you’ll need to make sure that the device you intend to use offline is set as the designated offline device. You can only have one device as your designated offline device.

To set your device as your designated offline device:

Make sure that you’re online.

Check that your device has the latest Windows updates: Go to Start > Settings > Update & security > Windows Update and see if any relevant updates are available.

Open the Store. You’ll be prompted to sign in if you haven’t already.

Select your profile icon in the upper right corner.

Select App settings, and then under Offline permissions, make sure that the toggle is set to On.

Once you set this, any devices previously designated as offline will be toggled to Off, and you’ll no longer be able to play games offline on those devices.

***Prepare your game or games

Once your device is set up, you’ll need to launch each game you want to play offline while signed in to the Xbox network. You only need to do this once per game, and you’ll need to do this even if you’ve already launched the game on your device.

Make sure that you’re online, and that your device is set as your designated offline device. (See the steps above for details on how to do this.)

Launch the game you want to play offline. When prompted, sign in to Xbox.

Once you’ve started playing the game, you can exit at any time.

Repeat this process for each game you want to play offline. Once completed, you can go offline at any time and launch those games whenever you want to play them, without needing to sign in online each time.

as gears 4 is in gamepass that licence overwrites your own licence whilst subscribed and gamepass games cannot be played offline i believe. also there are a large amount of gold games that require online connection to run.

but there is another option to try as you are not connected.

go to settings, network and select offline. this then tells the console to run in offline mode.

You dont need gold to play on pc, but you do need to own the game or have gamepass for pc.

you own the game and you have gamepass ultimate, this is the issue as gamepass ultimate overrides your licence while you are subscribed, so if you play on the pc then that licence is currently in use on the pc, only one device can use that game licence at a time. the only way around this is have gamepass ultimate on the other account that does not own sea of thieves then you can both play at the same time as it will be 2 seperate licences.

do you own the game on pc, if not you will be trying to download the gamepass version which requires gamepass or ultimate. you need to purchase a copy for each platform you play on.