Error when launching game after purchasing dlc (PC Gamepass)

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Hi, I've just purchased the Intrigue dlc for GC3 on pc gamepass/windows store. But now when I launch the game I get a large grey box in the top left of the screen that says: Error: Unable to read data from file. 

With the options to: Continue, Copy to Clipboard Skip or Quit

Continue just produces more of the same grey boxes, quit quits the game. If I choose Skip the game will eventually load but as soon as I colonize a 2nd planet and I'm asked to choose a government, the choose government screen is blank so I can't select anything to progress the game.

 

Things I've tried. I've tried to reset and repair the application from within windows. I've deleted the RebuildData.ini file and then the entire GC3Crusade folder from my documents. I've also tried uninstalling the game and the dlc and reinstalling them. 

None of them work. Please help!

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Looking at the debug file it looks like the game can't read the xmls

Debug Message:  unable to read data from file

Debug Message:  Error occurred while attempting to read xml C:\XboxGames\Galactic Civilizations III- Intrigue\Content\\DLC\EXP3_Intrigue\Core\IntrigueErrorCodeDefs.xml

Debug Message:  unable to read data from file

Debug Message:  unable to read data from file

Debug Message:  Error occurred while attempting to read xml C:\XboxGames\Galactic Civilizations III- Intrigue\Content\\DLC\EXP3_Intrigue\Core\Intrigue_AppearanceDefs.xml

Debug Message:  unable to read data from file

Debug Message:  unable to read data from file

Debug Message:  Error occurred while attempting to read xml C:\XboxGames\Galactic Civilizations III- Intrigue\Content\\DLC\EXP3_Intrigue\English\Text\CommonwealthFlavorText.xml

Debug Message:  unable to read data from file

Debug Message:  unable to read data from file

Debug Message:  Error occurred while attempting to read xml C:\XboxGames\Galactic Civilizations III- Intrigue\Content\\DLC\EXP3_Intrigue\English\Text\EarlyEventsText.xml

 

This repeats for all of the xmls in that folder. I've checked the file permissions on the folder and everything looks ok. System, Admins have full control etc. (I'm launching the game as an admin)

I can't manually open any of the xml's either. It's like they're corrupted even though I've uninstalled and reinstalled the dlc.