Update problem

[davej100]

After every update my game crashes. Each time I verify the local files and find that a couple of them need replacing. After this everything works fine until the next update. This was the case after update 5.0.1 and after I replaced the files it worked ok for two login sessions. Today when I launched the game it is installing the last update again and taking over an hour to do it. Do I need to uninstall the game completely and reinstall or is there a quicker fix?

[Tzunny]

AG devs give us ptsd... there is no "after update" when i do not do a verify files as well & is the only game that i feel forced to do this to can be actually playable.

[Craal]

My update is giving a disk error halfway through.

[Divine Pounding]

Anytime you update a game, you'll likely need to go to your c:\windows\prefech and delete all the files in there while your game is closed.
old temp files in there constantly mess up the games i play.

with some games, i need to uninstall the game, delete prefech, reboot, reinstall, and then the game runs without issues.
it can also help the game run better even if there's not a catastrophic issue.

the main games i do this with is cod:mw3, new world (don't really play it anymore), and Smite.. so it's not just new world.

oddly enough i never had to do any of this on windows 7.. 10 and 11, kinda suck at performance over time.

[vcr]

Originally posted by Craal:

My update is giving a disk error halfway through.

Same. Ever figure it out? I'm not trying to do a full uninstall and download of potentially a few hundred gigs.....Shouldn't be this hard.

[Craal]

Originally posted by vcr:

Originally posted by Craal:

My update is giving a disk error halfway through.

Same. Ever figure it out? I'm not trying to do a full uninstall and download of potentially a few hundred gigs.....Shouldn't be this hard.

No, I just uninstalled it for now.

[Divine Pounding]

Originally posted by vcr:

Originally posted by Craal:

My update is giving a disk error halfway through.

Same. Ever figure it out? I'm not trying to do a full uninstall and download of potentially a few hundred gigs.....Shouldn't be this hard.

might be a bad drive sector.
you can run this command to unmount the drive, scan, and fix issues.

replace the C: with the drive letter the game(s) are installed on.
chkdsk c: /f /r /x

a google search for what the check disk commands do, so you know i'm not trying to harm your pc.
https://www.google.com/search?q=chkdisk+commands&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS945US945&oq=chkdisk+commands&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDUyNjlqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

hope this simple thing fixes your issues.
while you're at it, i'd just run it on all of your drive letters, if you run more than one. (excluding optical drive the cd/bluray/etc, not going to help with disks)