You’ll know if you are, because GFWL will show you an error message. This will also allow you to play GFWL-enabled games if you’re outside one of the 42 supported countries where GFWL and Xbox services are available. This will work for most games, although you’ll have to create an online profile if you want to use multiplayer features. You can avoid online-connectivity and syncing problems that can interfere with your gameplay by creating a local profile (in other words, an offline profile) rather than an online profile in GFWL. The “Tab” and “Enter” keys were essential for navigating the interface. They may not work perfectly, of course. For example, we had to use the keyboard to navigate the GFWL interface in one particular game on Windows 10, as the mouse didn’t work properly.
After you install the latest version, GFWL-enabled games should launch and function. To fix this problem, download the latest version of Games for Windows LIVE from Microsoft’s website and install it.
Rather than attempting to update itself, GFWL will just fail to work properly without giving you any indication of what’s wrong and games won’t even launch or provide an error message.
When you install one of these games on a modern version of Windows, it installs an old version of GFWL that won’t function properly. The problem is that games that require GFWL include their own GFWL installers. Despite Windows 10’s assertion that Games for Windows LIVE isn’t compatible with modern versions of Windows, it can work. If you’re stuck playing a game that requires GFWL on modern versions of Windows and no alternative versions or cracks are available to help you disable them–or if you’d just like to use GFWL anyway–you can make GFWL function.
You may need a file extraction program like 7-Zip to extract these downloads. Follow the instructions in the download’s readme file to learn how to install whichever modification you downloaded and ensure it works properly. The latest versions of this game available on Steam no longer have GFWL, but old product keys for this game can’t be activated on Steam.
If you have a code for one of these games, you can redeem it on Steam. Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition.Publishers and developers haven’t bothered removing GFWL from many older games that didn’t do so well. These are big-name, big-budget games, and that’s no accident. The following games allow you to redeem them on Steam if you have a retail key or one provided by GFWL itself. If you purchased the game in the past–whether you bought a physical retail copy, digital download, or even a copy from Microsoft’s Games for Windows Marketplace–you can often convert that old GFWL-tainted copy to a modern one that will work properly. Many games have migrated away from Microsoft’s PC gaming platform to Steam. RELATED: Why PC Gamers Hated Microsoft's "Games for Windows LIVE"