Can't download the new update on this game palworld, please help!

[Alienware_01]

Can't download the new update on this game palworld, always on pause. I tried to clear cache on my downloads, but it didn't help.
Please help!

[Yaltiaj]

What update?

[BanCee]

Do you have enough room on your hard drive? If you don't then you'll have to uninstall a few games due to steam being difficult.

[Alienware_01]

Originally posted by BanCee:

Do you have enough room on your hard drive? If you don't then you'll have to uninstall a few games due to steam being difficult.

Yes, I do have plenty of room.

[Hound]

If you are downloading it through steam, then it has nothing to do with palworld. Its a steam issue.

Restart steam, restart the comp, and double check that you have at least the size of the game free on disk.

[Alienware_01]

Originally posted by Hound:

If you are downloading it through steam, then it has nothing to do with palworld. Its a steam issue.

Restart steam, restart the comp, and double check that you have at least the size of the game free on disk.

Yes I do have. I have 100 gb on my disk. Done Restart, Done Restart Computer.

[Mcspeedy99]

Same for me, takes ages for it to download a little update of 73mb. The big problem for me is installing the files, it just keeps getting stuck on 0% and doing nothing... I have checked my disk for problems and cleared my Steam cache, but still nothing.

After restarting Steam twice it gave me the error "Missing downloaded files" and restarted downloading the whole game.

[FireBrand]

Originally posted by Mcspeedy99:

Same for me, takes ages for it to download a little update of 73mb. The big problem for me is installing the files, it just keeps getting stuck on 0% and doing nothing... I have checked my disk for problems and cleared my Steam cache, but still nothing.

After restarting Steam twice it gave me the error "Missing downloaded files" and restarted downloading the whole game.

I've had this same exact issue; once on launch day, and now once again just now. Whenever I try to uninstall the game, it gives me a message saying "cannot uninstall, Palworld is busy" or something like that

[Mcspeedy99]

Originally posted by FireBrand:

Originally posted by Mcspeedy99:

Same for me, takes ages for it to download a little update of 73mb. The big problem for me is installing the files, it just keeps getting stuck on 0% and doing nothing... I have checked my disk for problems and cleared my Steam cache, but still nothing.

After restarting Steam twice it gave me the error "Missing downloaded files" and restarted downloading the whole game.

I've had this same exact issue; once on launch day, and now once again just now. Whenever I try to uninstall the game, it gives me a message saying "cannot uninstall, Palworld is busy" or something like that

I just tried to finish the download and once again it got stuck on installing. I tried to restart Steam, but now it has to redownload the whole game again.

[Cliffy]

I had zero problems.
When steam and PC restart not helping i would reinstall the whole game.

[FireBrand]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Palworld/comments/19fnzd0/stuck_on_0_installation/

EDIT: This method still works to be able to play the game, but in my experience I've had to do this twice now since the game launched.

Steps:
1. Let game go through its "download" process.
2. When it tries to "install" the files, it will get stuck at 0%.
3. Right-click the game name --> Manage --> Uninstall
4. wait for the pop-up to say "Cannot uninstall - Palworld is busy"
5. Close the window and shut down Steam. A prompt may pop up and show a "play" button, as if Palworld has already been updated.
6. Restart Steam. Palworld should now be playable.

Seeing this type of thing happen with a lot of players. The "solution" they have on here is also the exact thing that I did (mistakenly) in order to play the game again the first time I encountered these issues - but this doesn't actually solve the issue at large.

[Mcspeedy99]

Originally posted by FireBrand:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Palworld/comments/19fnzd0/stuck_on_0_installation/

EDIT: This method still works to be able to play the game, but in my experience I've had to do this twice now since the game launched.

Steps:
1. Let game go through its "download" process.
2. When it tries to "install" the files, it will get stuck at 0%.
3. Right-click the game name --> Manage --> Uninstall
4. wait for the pop-up to say "Cannot uninstall - Palworld is busy"
5. Close the window and shut down Steam. A prompt may pop up and show a "play" button, as if Palworld has already been updated.
6. Restart Steam. Palworld should now be playable.

Seeing this type of thing happen with a lot of players. The "solution" they have on here is also the exact thing that I did (mistakenly) in order to play the game again the first time I encountered these issues - but this doesn't actually solve the issue at large.

What worked for me is just letting it 'install' on 0% and wait. I clicked on launch the game after the download is complete and it suddenly started.

[Sirc]

Originally posted by FireBrand:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Palworld/comments/19fnzd0/stuck_on_0_installation/

EDIT: This method still works to be able to play the game, but in my experience I've had to do this twice now since the game launched.

Steps:
1. Let game go through its "download" process.
2. When it tries to "install" the files, it will get stuck at 0%.
3. Right-click the game name --> Manage --> Uninstall
4. wait for the pop-up to say "Cannot uninstall - Palworld is busy"
5. Close the window and shut down Steam. A prompt may pop up and show a "play" button, as if Palworld has already been updated.
6. Restart Steam. Palworld should now be playable.

Seeing this type of thing happen with a lot of players. The "solution" they have on here is also the exact thing that I did (mistakenly) in order to play the game again the first time I encountered these issues - but this doesn't actually solve the issue at large.

Not working for me. When I restart it is still stuck at 1%. Its stopping other steam games from loading as well

[Mcspeedy99]

Originally posted by Sirc:

Originally posted by FireBrand:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Palworld/comments/19fnzd0/stuck_on_0_installation/

EDIT: This method still works to be able to play the game, but in my experience I've had to do this twice now since the game launched.

Steps:
1. Let game go through its "download" process.
2. When it tries to "install" the files, it will get stuck at 0%.
3. Right-click the game name --> Manage --> Uninstall
4. wait for the pop-up to say "Cannot uninstall - Palworld is busy"
5. Close the window and shut down Steam. A prompt may pop up and show a "play" button, as if Palworld has already been updated.
6. Restart Steam. Palworld should now be playable.

Seeing this type of thing happen with a lot of players. The "solution" they have on here is also the exact thing that I did (mistakenly) in order to play the game again the first time I encountered these issues - but this doesn't actually solve the issue at large.

Not working for me. When I restart it is still stuck at 1%. Its stopping other steam games from loading as well

The 'fix' for me is just waiting. After 5 minutes it goes from 0/1% to 100%.

[RealMrSmoking]

Had the same on my W11 machine, updated about 2 weeks ago because I didnt trust it to have these kinds of issues but here I am.
I dont know why but I had the same issue and noticed my Steam taking alot of memory through task manager, so i decided to start ending the multiple Steam Client WebHelper one by one and it went from stuck at 1% to fully completed in 2 seconds.
checked the game files beforehand, restarted multiple times but only "end task" on the "Steam Client WebHelper" seemed to work. don't know if that was just luck for me or not. hope someone finds a solution for it.