Can't even install

[Noggin']

I pre-loaded in pure excitement to play this game on PC, now, the game has paralyzed my steam client. I can't get the unpacking to move beyond 67.1/67.1 (I know, that's "done" but it's really not) and if I attempt to pause the unpacking or do any other form of troubleshooting, my steam client just freezes then tanks. It's at the point now where I can't open steam and so anything, it just instantly locks up. The ♥♥♥♥ is this?? This is not the first game I've pre-loaded but the first game I have ever had any issue with locking up my client.

[Nekro Silver]

i keep getting the same issue. something about a PDF file...
it's annoying. ho[efully the devs figure it out.

[Noggin']

Originally posted by NekroSilver:

i keep getting the same issue. something about a PDF file...
it's annoying. ho[efully the devs figure it out. [/quote]

I'm not even getting that. It just keeps starting and stopping the unpack but never going anywhere then just locks down my client. What a joke

[Super Bambaspis]

Open your task manager and look at your disk utilization. If your HD busy? Then it's still working on it. Opening/closing steam will only make the process take longer, so just wait it out until your HD is no longer busy and your game is available to play.

[Noggin']

Originally posted by Bilbo Laggins:

Open your task manager and look at your disk utilization. If your HD busy? Then it's still working on it. Opening/closing steam will only make the process take longer.

That still shouldn't cause my client to freeze and not respond though right? Like I said, I've never had this issue with any game ever.

[Zaydin]

I had the same issue. I closed Steam and relaunched it as an Administrator and that seemed to get the download/unpacking working for me.

[Super Bambaspis]

Originally posted by Noggin':

Originally posted by Bilbo Laggins:

Open your task manager and look at your disk utilization. If your HD busy? Then it's still working on it. Opening/closing steam will only make the process take longer.

That still shouldn't cause my client to freeze and not respond though right? Like I said, I've never had this issue with any game ever.

You hard drive being busy? Sure, depends on the drive. Especially if steam is installed on that same drive. I mean, it could easily not be that, but you will find out once you look at your disk utilization in task manager.

[Noggin']

Originally posted by Bilbo Laggins:

Originally posted by Noggin':

That still shouldn't cause my client to freeze and not respond though right? Like I said, I've never had this issue with any game ever.

You hard drive being busy? Sure, depends on the drive. Especially if steam is installed on that same drive. I mean, it could easily not be that, but you will find out once you look at your disk utilization in task manager.

That is true, I do have the client loaded on the same drive, just seems odd that everything would consistently crash, drive is around 85% but it might jump sometimes. Seems to have smoothed out a little though, it's not stopping the unpack anymore. Cheers, didn't think to check drive utilization

[Super Bambaspis]

Originally posted by Noggin':

Originally posted by Bilbo Laggins:

You hard drive being busy? Sure, depends on the drive. Especially if steam is installed on that same drive. I mean, it could easily not be that, but you will find out once you look at your disk utilization in task manager.

That is true, I do have the client loaded on the same drive, just seems odd that everything would consistently crash, drive is around 85% but it might jump sometimes. Seems to have smoothed out a little though, it's not stopping the unpack anymore. Cheers, didn't think to check drive utilization

Yeah, the slowness of the whole process is probably something to do with steam and the unpacking process fighting over HD access. Perhaps other programs as well, such as an antivirus overseeing the whole thing. Mechanical hard drives (which I'm assuming you are using) are very bad at multitasking, and it's easy to cripple their speed to a slow crawl with tasks like this.

So it's best to leave everything alone and keep steam minimized in the tray until the process is complete. It's possible that something is going wrong and it's causing a deadlock. In which case installing the game to another drive might be your best solution. After it's installed you can migrate the installation over to your preferred drive and it shouldn't have this same issue (you do that from the local files section of the games properties in your steam library).

[Noggin']

Originally posted by Bilbo Laggins:

Originally posted by Noggin':

That is true, I do have the client loaded on the same drive, just seems odd that everything would consistently crash, drive is around 85% but it might jump sometimes. Seems to have smoothed out a little though, it's not stopping the unpack anymore. Cheers, didn't think to check drive utilization

Yeah, the slowness of the whole process is probably something to do with steam and the unpacking process fighting over HD access. Perhaps other programs as well, such as an antivirus overseeing the whole thing. Mechanical hard drives (which I'm assuming you are using) are very bad at multitasking, and it's easy to cripple their speed to a slow crawl with tasks like this.

So it's best to leave everything alone and keep steam minimized in the tray until the process is complete.

Yeah, I'll let it go all day. It's the only client I have left sitting on the HDD, haven't gotten an ssd to replace it yet.

Appreciate the help

[focusblade]

So i sorta have the same problem except i was only half way done downloading. The download is stuck at 38.7 gbs and wont move. i try to pause the downloaded and steam get stuck on "stopping". i try to exit steam and it wont close. i started steam in offline mode stopped the download and deleted the files. i started the download again..... 38.7 gbs.

assuming this is on steams side but not sure what to do at this point lol

[Old Skool Raver]

Originally posted by Noggin':

Originally posted by Bilbo Laggins:

Open your task manager and look at your disk utilization. If your HD busy? Then it's still working on it. Opening/closing steam will only make the process take longer.

That still shouldn't cause my client to freeze and not respond though right? Like I said, I've never had this issue with any game ever.

PC Specs?