Xbox Ready To Play and paused Download.

Hello ,

Thank you for posting here on tyhe Xbox forums. We understand that you are looking for a way to pause the download of a game whenever you launch it when it reaches its "Ready to play" mode. While there is no way to set this up to happen automatically, you
should be able to pause the download manually and then launch the game. Just make sure you select Pause and not "Cancel". Let us know the results!

Nope, this unfortunately doesnt work. It allows you to pause it, but when you launch the game it auto resumes. If you have the game launched, then try to pause, same thing, a few seconds later it auto resumes.

I'm not sure if there is a less conventional method. Router port blocking?

Hello FuzzLiteBeard,

Thank you for posting here on tyhe Xbox forums. We understand that you are looking for a way to pause the download of a game whenever you launch it when it reaches its "Ready to play" mode. While there is no way to set this up to happen automatically, you
should be able to pause the download manually and then launch the game. Just make sure you select Pause and not "Cancel". Let us know the results!

Not sure how to help but can I ask why you don't want all of it installed?? Also I think if you press the "start" button on the install I think the option is there

Thanks for the reply. I have a data cap limit. Forza 5 is 40 GB for the whole thing. It's a big download. I had it running perfectly at 35 % with plenty of racing for the Weekend free Play deal. Thus, it's not necessary to blow my data cap on the whole
thing, I'm not a huge race fan. Also, just regarding the "think it's there" ... that's what I thought... 5 hours of searching plus about 183 button click attempts seem to suggest not. Wish these things were "idiot proof" to be honest, hope I'm blind and
it's like right there... but honestly ... it's not.

It's how the Xbox is installing the update in to the original download. Just pause the update until you're ready.