Do NOT Uninstall. Let The Game Unpack

[Lefty]

The unpacking was taking forever so I thought to just delete and reinstall but the download for this game is currently broken, at least for me on steam. Client will not display download speed or download progress. As soon as I start a fresh download it automatically says 64% completed and 0/Mbs. What the hell.

[Lefty]

Just to confirm. I went to redownload Elden Ring just to test and the ER download works perfectly fine. Dropped 95 USD and cant even download smh

[Lefty]

I have restarted PC, rebooted internet, annnnd nothing.

[StepwisePilot]

Same problem here. I'll probably have to wait a few hours. When I'm back home from work late this evening it'll hopefully be able to start the download.

[Drezdar]

Thanks, I was actually contemplating doing this since unpacking is taking forever. I will refrain.

[Swamp Fox]

Not sure what the thought process was with deleting...You're probably going to need to reconcile the game files now as you probably broke something in steam's database.

[Lefty]

Originally posted by Patrick Swayze's Ghost:

Not sure what the thought process was with deleting...You're probably going to need to reconcile the game files now as you probably broke something in steam's database.

I preisntalled this game in 20 minutes before. The steam download is literally broken. I made the mistake of reading a couple post that said it was faster to just reinstall but its not true

[StepwisePilot]

Originally posted by Patrick Swayze's Ghost:

Not sure what the thought process was with deleting...You're probably going to need to reconcile the game files now as you probably broke something in steam's database.

The thought process was that any other time I have trouble unpacking a pre-loaded game, deleting it and redownloading always worked. I've also seen many people recommend doing so over the years.

[Swamp Fox]

Originally posted by Lefty:

Originally posted by Patrick Swayze's Ghost:

Not sure what the thought process was with deleting...You're probably going to need to reconcile the game files now as you probably broke something in steam's database.

I preisntalled this game in 20 minutes before. The steam download is literally broken. I made the mistake of reading a couple post that said it was faster to just reinstall but its not true

preinstalling isn't the same thing as unpacking. one requires your processor to be pegged at 100% for a long time. Deleting things randomly is never a solution to anything

[Lefty]

Originally posted by Patrick Swayze's Ghost:

Originally posted by Lefty:

I preisntalled this game in 20 minutes before. The steam download is literally broken. I made the mistake of reading a couple post that said it was faster to just reinstall but its not true

preinstalling isn't the same thing as unpacking. one requires your processor to be pegged at 100% for a long time. Deleting things randomly is never a solution to anything

I see your point but if I completely wipe the entire game from my system then I dont see why it cannot just download as normal. The fact that I deleted it still doesnt make sense as to why the download does not work

[Aanjan]

Ran into the same issue - I fixed it by deleting the files in depotcache (SteamLibrary\steamapps\depotcache). It's downloading everything from scratch now.

[Swamp Fox]

Originally posted by Lefty:

Originally posted by Patrick Swayze's Ghost:

preinstalling isn't the same thing as unpacking. one requires your processor to be pegged at 100% for a long time. Deleting things randomly is never a solution to anything

I see your point but if I completely wipe the entire game from my system then I dont see why it cannot just download as normal. The fact that I deleted it still doesnt make sense as to why the download does not work

Because if you delete things out of file explorer etc you are messing up databases within steam. You can't "completely wipe entire game from my system" if you are not deleting it through steam. I don't know what you did

[StepwisePilot]

Originally posted by Aanjan:

Ran into the same issue - I fixed it by deleting the files in depotcache (SteamLibrary\steamapps\depotcache). It's downloading everything from scratch now.

When you say downloading everything from scratch, do you mean redownloading steam itself?

[Aanjan]

Originally posted by StepwisePilot:

Originally posted by Aanjan:

Ran into the same issue - I fixed it by deleting the files in depotcache (SteamLibrary\steamapps\depotcache). It's downloading everything from scratch now.

When you say downloading everything from scratch, do you mean redownloading steam itself?

No, just the game. The depotcache has your pre-downloaded files. Just go to SteamLibrary\steamapps\depotcache and see if you have files with the appid 1680881 or something similar and delete them. There might be a lot depending on where your download got stuck. Mine died at 97 gigs unfortunately, so had a bunch of files in there to delete.

[Lefty]

Originally posted by StepwisePilot:

Originally posted by Aanjan:

Ran into the same issue - I fixed it by deleting the files in depotcache (SteamLibrary\steamapps\depotcache). It's downloading everything from scratch now.

When you say downloading everything from scratch, do you mean redownloading steam itself?

no just the game itself. I first uninstalled off steam client via right click and uninstall. Then i proceeded to go into file explorer and delete the empty "Forspoken" file that was left over. No my download i just bugged

[No]

Well when my game finishes unpacking in about 9 months i'll let u know how it is.