u/Hwy420man

Ok so a couple days ago I posted a "workaround" for the "took to long to launch" error. I've been using it to play games that give me grief on my 10 year old Xbox one Tomb raider bundle. Yes I realize my system is old. Yes I realize that I need to upgrade. I also realize that my newborn son takes precidence over a gaming system.

So tonight I used my workaround to play dragon age inquisition that I recently purchased on the store for 11 dollars. I've been having some real fun playing a "new to me" game. Tonight my last Xbox one controller finally gave up.

I'm not looking to spend a fortune on an Xbox controller, but I don't want a wired one either, so I was hoping that you fine gentleman, ladies, and others could suggest a good third party controller that will get me by for now and could also be a secondary controller for my new Xbox. Hopefully Santa can afford to buy me an Xbox X for Christmas so I can finally play Starfield. 😁

I swear this is the only reason I keep Titanfall 2 installed on my machine.

So we all hate the damn "game took too long to launch" error! All the posted fixes are total bull crap and don't work, or if they do it only fixes the problem once. I however stumbled onto an odd way to fix the issue.

I mainly have this issue with Fallout, Halo Master chief edition, Dragon age, and Witcher 3. It drives me nuts. I just want to play for an hour or two while the baby is asleep, but by the damn time I get them to launch, the baby is awake, or it's time to go to bed. Super frustrating!

The odd thing I noticed was that even if all four of those games fail to launch, Titanfall 2 always will launch. So needless to say I've been playing quite a bit of a game I got tired of years ago. Well three nights ago I couldn't get Dragon age to launch, and just like old faithful, Titanfall launched just like it always does. I got up while it was loading and logging in to get something to drink. I came back and decided that I didn't want to play stupid Titanfall, so without thinking I hit the home button and launched Dragon age from the left popup menu. I didn't return to the home screen, just hit launch from the menu and it actually launched! I was thrilled!

Yesterday I wanted to play Witcher, same error, failed to launch, so I decided what the heck, I'll try the Titanfall trick again. I launched Titanfall 2, waited for it to load to the main menu, tapped the home button and chose Witcher. Boom, loaded right up.

Tonight I didn't even bother trying to launch the game I wanted to play, I turned on my Xbox, waited for it to boot up fully, launched Titanfall, waited until it was in the main menu and then launched Dragon Age from the home menu on the left and boom, loaded right up. No issues, no errors, no frustrating bull crap. Just straight to it as if I had launched it first.

Y'all let me know if this works for you, or if there is any other games out there that never fail to load that get you around the "failed to load" error.

I also think that if Microsoft just added 60 seconds to the failed to load timer in a patch, the error would never happen again. I don't know how many times Ive heard Halo's launch music under the error. Like 2 more seconds and it would have launched.