Games for Windows Live - Windows 8.1 x64

I'm having some issues with installing Games for Windows Live under Windows 8.1. I'm running a 64 bit OS and I've tried the following steps.

1. Downloaded the gfwlivesetup.exe from Microsoft's Website
2. Set its compatibility to Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows XP SP3, etc all with no luck
3. Tried running it as administrator.

None of this works and no matter what, it ends in an Error Code: 0x80070660. I have no other GFWL clients installed or anything.

I have the following logs available:

My setupexe.log

My xliveinstall-elevated log

If you guys need anymore information I'd be glad to answer. Googling that error code turned up nothing.

2 Answers

The problem is that windows installs games for Windows Live files into a wrong directory (SysWOW64), you will have to move the files to System 32 directory (c:\Windows\System32)After installing Game for Windows Live, Go to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ Find these files

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\xlive.dll

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\xlivefnt.dll

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\xlive.dll.cat

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\xliveinstall.dll

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\xliveinstallhost.exe

And Copy the five files mentioned above to C:\Windows\System32\ And thats it! Any problems with Games for Windows Live must be resolved now!

If you need GFWL for a game (of course, why else would you need it?) and you don't need multiplayer you can download and use a fake xlive.dll from this site. Works for Bioshock 2 on Windows 8.1.