need help disk write error

[Blue Glaucus]

so ive only been having the disk write error on Outlast Trials ive already done all the common fixes that i could find on the internet and every other game is just fine its only Outlast that im having trouble with. :(

[G'ma Gamer]

Having trouble here too. Hadn't played it for a few weeks. A few weeks ago everything was fine but now it wont work. I tried fixing all issues as well on my end.

[Blue Glaucus]

so come to find out it was the antivirus app that was blocking it hope it works for ya i just deleted the antivirus app and everyhting got fixed

[G'ma Gamer]

Hey, Bet your right but I hate to turn my antivirus off and I wonder why just all of the sudden??

[jp_tyrant]

I also have this issue. It is weird, I emailed support, I will follow up if I get a fix.

I attempted to clean install nvidia driver, windows is up to date so is steam. run as admin, whitelist on avast, whitelist on windows firewall, run from the binary folder executable, I have attempted on 5 different ssd wd black 1tb drives. Verify the files, it says a failed corrupted item, attempts to patch, fails and then gives the disk drive error.

The official error states totclient-shipping.exe failed and returned 2. After fresh install the binary file it states vanishes and a copy paste will not fix the return of the exe. No clue what the issue is.

oh, also, my wifes PC similar hardware and windows, duplicate issue at the same time. We were fine a few weeks back. 111hr on game.

[G'ma Gamer]

I have 480 hours on game and it played fine a couple weeks back. Will update here if I figure anything out and keep an eye to see if anyone here gets it figured out.

[Blue Glaucus]

my issue was the antivirus application was blocking the game for the longest time for some reason.

[Blue Glaucus]

i fixed it by uninstalling the antivirus app

[Blue Glaucus]

since im not planning on searching anything up on the web

[G'ma Gamer]

I can't get rid of my antivirus, I bank, work, play, and well, just do everything on my PC and it is odd b/c this never happened before. Hopefully the devs. will try to fix this I do enjoy playing from time to time. None of my other games have this issue UGH

[Blue Glaucus]

i wish ya the best of luck

[B-Rabbit]

Originally posted by G'ma Gamer:

I can't get rid of my antivirus, I bank, work, play, and well, just do everything on my PC and it is odd b/c this never happened before. Hopefully the devs. will try to fix this I do enjoy playing from time to time. None of my other games have this issue UGH

If you use a third party anti-virus application you can probably uninstall it. I have seen a ton of Steam games get flagged by third-party AV vendors (Avast, kasparsky, etc) and it ended up being a false-positive. Make sure Windows Defender is enabled and updated after doing so (Microsoft's built in AntiVirus), it's pretty good!

[G'ma Gamer]

Originally posted by B-Rabbit:

Originally posted by G'ma Gamer:

I can't get rid of my antivirus, I bank, work, play, and well, just do everything on my PC and it is odd b/c this never happened before. Hopefully the devs. will try to fix this I do enjoy playing from time to time. None of my other games have this issue UGH

If you use a third party anti-virus application you can probably uninstall it. I have seen a ton of Steam games get flagged by third-party AV vendors (Avast, kasparsky, etc) and it ended up being a false-positive. Make sure Windows Defender is enabled and updated after doing so (Microsoft's built in AntiVirus), it's pretty good!

Thanks, I certainly will do this. Didn't realize I had windows defender!

[jp_tyrant]

Originally posted by jp_tyrant:

I also have this issue. It is weird, I emailed support, I will follow up if I get a fix.

I attempted to clean install nvidia driver, windows is up to date so is steam. run as admin, whitelist on avast, whitelist on windows firewall, run from the binary folder executable, I have attempted on 5 different ssd wd black 1tb drives. Verify the files, it says a failed corrupted item, attempts to patch, fails and then gives the disk drive error.

The official error states totclient-shipping.exe failed and returned 2. After fresh install the binary file it states vanishes and a copy paste will not fix the return of the exe. No clue what the issue is.

oh, also, my wifes PC similar hardware and windows, duplicate issue at the same time. We were fine a few weeks back. 111hr on game.

The issue was a bit challenging to sort out but the antivirus concern specifically the app protection on Avast was the culprit.

It started to confuse me that I would run the game from the alternate file selection for the executable and then it would just vanish.

It finally dawned on me that the actual executable was vanishing and there must be a valid reason behind it.

I had to go into app protection on Avast, specifically the quarantined applications menu and create an exemption. This repeated a follow-up time when I installed deep rock galactic with the autumn sale, so now I know to look for this and hopefully this helps anybody else.

The disc write error, had absolutely nothing to do with the solid state drive, it was a factor of trying to repair a file that was immediately placed in quarantine and it would not permit a rewrite of the exact same file name due to the quarantine effect that the antivirus was applying.

[noah4of4]

My 3rd party antivirus software was the cause for me. The launcher executable file for the game was automatically "quarantined" as a suspicious .exe If you launch your antivirus/firewall software there is likely a section where all of these suspicious quarantined applications are held and they can be reinstated from there or you can set it to allow the certain files to be able to make changes on your PC.

Best of luck guys