Disk Read Error

[EDGHolyHeadshot]

Purchased on the Spring Sale this week, at 99% download it errors giving a "Disk Read Error". I have tried on multiple drives, both of which have 1 TB free on them. I have reinstalled Steam, cleared my download cache, done everything I can think of an that Google has to offer but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

[cheshirm]

go to folder
...\steam\logs
try content_log.txt
might have a more info on what the problem is

think I read in one of the forums that having multiple steam accounts can cause this error.
new account cannot read/write over former account files

[EDGHolyHeadshot]

Originally posted by cheshirm:

go to folder
...\steam\logs
try content_log.txt
might have a more info on what the problem is

think I read in one of the forums that having multiple steam accounts can cause this error.
new account cannot read/write over former account files

Thanks, here's what I found:
[2024-03-18 19:12:18] AppID 20920 state changed : Update Required,Update Queued,Update Started, (Disk write failure)
[2024-03-18 19:12:18] AppID 20920 state changed : Update Required,Update Paused,Update Started,
[2024-03-18 19:12:18] AppID 20920 scheduler finished : removed from schedule (result Disk write failure, state 0x602)

Don't have multiple steam accounts so that can't be it. I'm constantly playing a shell game with game installs on my hard drive, scanned the drives and there's no errors and no other game installs have done this for me. Very weird.

[cheshirm]

if you have the room go to folder
...\steam\steamapps\common
rename the witcher 2 folder to something else
steam verify game files and see if the new disk location works

a second thought would be game is 99% installed. maybe its the extra "redist" libraries
that are failing at the end: dx9 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86 Redistributable Setup. maybe download them from MS, install manually with admin permission, then steam verify game files. game should not have to install them since they are already installed.

[EDGHolyHeadshot]

Appreciate the help, sadly none of that worked. I even tried running steam in Win8 compat mode and thought it might finally work, but sadly came to the same disk write error msg

I was doing all of this because I wanted my previous/GOG saves to transfer to the Deck where I planned on playing. Took a lot of time and hoops but I found another way. I had really only wanted to do this to import a Witcher 1 save into Witcher 2 to play on Deck and then be carried through to Witcher 3 for NG+

What a convoluted process.

[Deadbeat_Hero]

Run a windows memory diagnostic or memtest86 on your RAM a few times. I had this issue when Downloading a big game when I had a defective stick of RAM.