Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-194.228.18.230-20180213121211/@comment-27506415-20180224211306

! ! ! ! ! !      SOLUTION  (for nVIDIA SHIELD on ANDROID 7.0, anyway)     ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Just bought this incredible blazing-fast (you see what I did there?) tablet EXPLICITLY FOR RR3. Spent TWO WEEKS smashing my head against this stupid asset download failure brick wall. ALWAYS stopped dead at 98% -- that's ALWAYS @ 1953 / 1977 MB. CONNECTION FAIL.

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.

I have rock solid 125Mbps internet service and this screamer 5GHz wireless tablet, right next to a 1750Mbps router. Tried over and over again. Every time of the day or night. NOTHING.

Don't remember where I found it now (maybe here, maybe another forum), but I tried one last thing, in desperation -- CONNECTED the device via VPN, instead of straight thru my 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. I have PIA (Private Internet Access), but I'm sure it's not them, it's just a 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.

HOPE THIS HELPS. Cheers all.