Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-194.228.18.230-20180213121211/@comment-34830652-20180226175148

Blazing F. wrote: ! ! ! ! ! !      SOLUTION  (for nVIDIA SHIELD TABLET on ANDROID 7.0, anyway)     ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Just bought an incredible blazing-fast (you see what I did there?) nVIDIA Shield EXPLICITLY for RR3. TWO WEEKS smashing my head against this stupid asset download failure brick wall. Always stops dead at 98% progress -- AT EXACTLY THE SAME POINT @ 1953 / 1977 MB.

TRIED EVERY SUGGESTION. Uninstalled. Cleared all the old files. Repeated fresh re-installs. Deleted Google Play Store cache. Deleted Download Manager cache AND data. NO JOY.

So I have this screaming-fast tablet with 5GHz wireless, right next to a 1750Mbps router, connecting to rock solid 125Mbps downstream broadband. Fails over and over again. Same spot. Every time, day or night. NOTHING.

Don't remember where I found this idea now (maybe here, maybe another forum), but I tried one last thing today, in desperation -- CONNECTING THRU MY VPN (instead of straight thru the ISP).

WORKED IMMEDIATELY, THE FIRST TIME !!  That's it. It just worked. Don't know why, don't care, but it wasn't an accident, trust me. My VPN service is PIA (Private Internet Access), but I'm sure it's not them, it's just the different route to the FM servers. Can't (won't) go back and try to force it to fail again to try different VPNs for you guys, but I'm willing to bet if you're suffering the same futile dead-end as I was, ANY VPN that gives you a different path to the Monkeys will cure your pain.

If this works for others, maybe one of the MODS can MAKE THIS A STICKY NOTE up top?

Either way, hope this helps SOMEONE. =)   Cheers all. VPN worked for me as well after nothing else would.  First couple of times I tried the VPN it didn't work however so anyone trying this and not working, try connecting to different VPN server locations, including different countries.  Going through Brazil (I'm in Canada) worked for me but anything from the U.S. wouldn't go through.  Only thing I can figure is FM has multiple cloud servers that don't all get updated or some have issues where others don't and if you hit the right one you get through.  Anyway, kudos to Blazing F. for the suggestion! Thanks.