Errors! Who doesn’t love them, especially when they prevent you from, say,enslaving an entire populace of creaturesfor fun and profit? For Game Pass users, in particular, Xbox error code 0x803f8001 may be familiar, as it’s a relatively common error that many will have already encountered before.
As long as you know what error you’re facing at a given time, your odds of actually resolving the issue are massively increased. In that respect, 0x308f8001 is a known quantity, and in the next two sections, we’ll explain why it might’ve popped up on your end, and how you could go about fixing the bugger. Our experience with 0x308f8001 was that it was (relatively) easily resolved, so we don’t think you’ll have issues with it, either.
Error code 0x803f8001 explained
As per Microsoft’s ownexplanation of the issue, error code 0x803f8001 signifies a rights issue of some sort, wherein the system could not verify whether your account has access to a given game, application, or widget: “[Error code 0x803f8001]may mean that we’re having trouble checking usage rights, or that the game is no longer in the Game Pass catalog,” says the Xbox support page.
In effect, this means that you’re likely experiencing the error 0x803f8001 because there’s an authorization problem somewhere along the application launch pipeline. That may be due to poor Internet connectivity or, in some instances, because one API is unable to communicate with another. 0x803f8001 has, for example, beenknown to pop upwhile attempting to play Xbox games via Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service. The relevant fix was, in this case, to simply keep attempting to reconnect until access authorization could be granted.
Fixing error code 0x803f8001
Yours truly has come across Xbox error code 0x803f8001 as well, and while there are sure to be other fixes that could’ve resolved the problem, the one that helped wasposted on Reddit by the user KurwaCowa while back:
While the fix was posted in relation to being unable to runDead by Daylight, this solution worked withStarfieldas well, and it’s an easy thing to try if you’re facing 0x803f8001 for whatever reason.
In case this doesn’t work, however, the good news is that Xbox has a list of other things you could try:
For disc-based and digital games
For games played via the Xbox Game Pass and other subscription services
This potential fix also comes with the caveat that “Periodically [Xbox] adjust the titles available through subscription services, and a specific title might be removed from the game catalog. If a game has been dropped, it can no longer be played with your subscription.”
In other words, if you’re trying to play a game that’s no longer available via the given subscription service, then you’re likely going to run into 0x803f8001, and you won’t be able to fix it.
