
Why is Genshin Impact’s download speed slow? This means the game’s files weren’t downloaded properly, and your only option here is to redownload and try again. If you get the “Couldn’t Verify Files” error, this apparently means your connection to the game’s server was unstable when it was downloading (probably through no fault of your own). The cause of the problem seems to be the amount of people trying to download Genshin Impact at once, which means your only real option is to wait for miYoHo to fix the server capacity issues. Unfortunately, this doesn’t help much if you’re playing on Xbox One, PS4, or mobile. This problem has many related errors, all of which have the same effect: you can’t play the game. One of the most common connection issues we’ve seen for Genshin Impact is the “ Failed to check for Updates” error on the game launcher. Hopefully they’ll be resolved by the game’s first full weekend, but there is very little official information available about what’s going on behind the scenes. Unfortunately, there are a lot of connection issues currently affecting Genshin Impact.

We’ll dig into a few of the more frequently asked questions we’ve seen around the internet, to save you as much frustrated Googling as possible.įailed to check for Updates – Couldn’t Verify Files – Genshin Impact won’t launch On top of that, we’ve also seen many of the dreaded server and connection issues which plague just about every online game to ever launch.


While the framing of Genshin Impact’s story does have more in common with an anime JRPG than an MMO, there are still some opaque systems which aren’t best explained in an always online environment.

Genshin Impact is Chinese developer miHoYo’s best answer to the question: what if Breath of the Wild, but anime? It plays a lot more like a single-player RPG than its online elements would suggest, and is free-to-play on PC, current-gen consoles, and iOS and Android – with a Switch version forthcoming. By James Billcliffe, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 17:27 GMT
