Sorry if I have posted this in the wrong place. I purchased recently Birmingham Cross City https://www.xbox.com/en-gb/games/st...ne-lichfield-bromsgrove-redditch/9p2f50l5fvc3 This was the advert above which states Xbox and PC. My question is if I want Birmingham Cross City to run on TSW3 on my PC do I have to purchase the steam version? I cannot understand why the Microsoft store would sell it for PC as well! If I can transfer it to my PC and run it both on my PC and xbox would be great. Does some kind person know and advice how this is possible or do I have to sell out another £30 to play it on my PC.
If it's a Play Anywhere title, like the core TSW2 game was, then buying it on XBox lets you also install the Windows Store version and play it. Not sure as I have not tried this with TSW3 [[EDIT]] Seems so. Just went and checked on my PC
It's not marked as a play anywhere title, but it works as one. I can't give you much more info than I mentioned before. But no, assuming you already own TSW3 on XBOX and you bought that through the Microsoft Store, you do not need to buy it on Steam. 1) Do you have the XBOX App on your PC? If not go to the Microsoft Store on your PC and download it. 2) Open the XBOX App on your PC, log in with your Gamertag - Same one as on the XBOX. 3) Search for the version of TSW3 that you purchased on the XBOX. 4) Install it. 5) Once installed it should show up in your XBOX Library on the XBOX App (Left hand side about half way down). 6) Click on that and on the main part of the Screen there should be a section 'Add ons for this game'. 7) Click on Show all. 8) Click on each of the ones you already own on XBOX Console and install them. It may still show you the Buy button, you can still click that and it should say you already own it. If it puts up a credit card screen, do not proceed as it didn't recognise you own it and will chanrge you. Microsoft are a pain for refunds. That's the process I did so I hope you can make it work. I no longer buy anything on Steam and don't have it installed, so it definitely works.
That’s very helpful Tigert1966, I have managed to install it but on my C Drive. My steam Train Sim World is on my D Drive as my space on C is low. Not very technically minded. When I installed it from the Microsoft Store I clicked on change drive but nothing happened and it installed a copy of TSW followed by Birmingham XC onto my C drive. It creates a folder xbox games on my c drive with train sim world 3 and Birmingham cross city in on the C drive. Not sure if this is right. Can I transfer the folders to steam or will that damage the game?
In the XBox app on the PC, I think there is an option to move it to another drive. I’ll try and find some instructions but it may be a couple of days before I get to my PC again. Don’t move it to your Steam Folder though. that could mess things up. Just let it create an Xboxgames folder on your D Drive.
When setting up my game install folders I set up a general games folder on the drive I use for them, which then has subdirectories for Steam, Origin, etc. to ensure the various launchers keep their respective game libraries in the same place.
I only play TSW on XBox, yeah, but for all my PC installs, I tell every manager to put its library in one place, so I can always find games regardless of which PC launcher they use.
Sorry it's taken a while to get back to you. To move a game to a different drive you need to be in the XBOX app on your PC. In the Left Column you should see Train Sim World 3 and it should have 2 icons a 'Play' Icon and a circle with 3 vertical dots. Click on the 3 dots then in the Menu that opens click Manage. That should open a new window with 2 options at the top. General and Files. Select Files. Down at the bottom of that page is an option to 'Change Drive'. You can click on this and then select where you would like to move your game to. You can either pick an option for a Drive that already exists or pick a new drive and folder. Then click Move. I can't actually go any further than this as I don't actually want to move my installation, but if you didn't find it already, I hope I could help.
Thank you Tigert1966, I will try that later. I also believe that I need to convert the drive from FAT to NTFS hopefully without losing my data.
I don't think Microsoft and Steam files are compatable. Because if you owned it on Steam and then got say a route off the Epic store they will not work together. So if ypu own the Steam version and download the MS route, the MS route will not work on a Steam base game.
Yeah, you only need FAT for a drive if you're running stuff that requires a particularly old operating system. Like, XBox 360 external USB drives all need to be formatted as FAT for some reason, even though home versions of Windows were using NTFS by default since XP
I know it's been a bit since the last post on this thread, but I have a question. If I play TSW2 on Steam and then get TSW3 on an Xbox series X (game pass), will my DLCs be transferred over to TSW3? This might sound like a silly question, but I really don't want to have to buy TSW3 on Steam, because my PC won't be able to run it. I wish to have my existing TSW2 DLC on Xbox TSW3, but I doubt I'll actually be able to have that happen. I'm just wondering whether or not TSW2 DLC on Steam is compatible with TSW3 on an Xbox console.
No. Steam DLCs are not compatible with Xbox/MS versions. Steam is completely separate from MS/Xbox/Epic. If you wish to play TSW3 with all your DLCs, you need to remain on the platform which you purchased TSW2 from.
