Microsoft is now permitting testers to entry a brand new Xbox app for Windows that enormously improves the sport set up course of from the Windows retailer. As we reported earlier this month, the up to date app permits PC players to put in titles into any folder of their selection with unrestricted entry to sport information.

It’s an possibility that helps deal with lots of the complications of putting in titles from Xbox Game Pass for PC, and it also needs to imply you possibly can backup sport information and restore them if want be. Previously, Microsoft pressured video games to put in right into a WindowsApps folder on the root of a drive, and it was locked down so that you couldn’t modify information or freely transfer them round.

The up to date Xbox app now allows you to select a location, and, you probably have current video games put in, you possibly can transfer them onto secondary drives. I’ve examined the app and efficiently moved Forza Horizon 5, Gears 5, and Microsoft Flight Simulator onto secondary drives. I can now absolutely entry these information and folders, too.

Windows 10 and Windows 11 customers can check the brand new Xbox app by way of the Xbox Insider Hub app from the shop. You’ll want to affix the “Windows Gaming” preview throughout the Xbox Insider Hub app to get the up to date Xbox app. Microsoft does list a number of known issues for this early launch although, together with points launching some video games on exterior drives and numerous video games that aren’t supported but.

You additionally nonetheless can’t add video games downloaded from the Windows retailer into Steam, as there seems to be a permission problem stopping that. The Xbox app remains to be in preview, in order that might be a bug that will probably be addressed earlier than it’s extensively out there.

Either method, Windows retailer sport installs are lastly getting extra Steam-like, after years of points and bugs for PC customers. If you’ve been avoiding Xbox Game Pass for PC as a result of Windows retailer, this new Xbox app ought to take away a number of the related complications.