ETS2 & STEAM always redownload the game with no reason at all.

[Altair (アルタイル)]

Man this is getting a huge hassle yesterday I was able to play ETS2 fine with no issues and today launched steam and and ETS2 after cloud sync it started downloading a small KB file and then all of the sudden re downloads the whole 13GB game with no apparent reason at all.

After doing a clear download cache on steam same thing all over again, right now the game is downloading 4GB out of no where when nothing was changed or removed on the files to begin with, this is the most annoying and hassle of starting the game even if cloud sync is disabled same thing even if the game finishes downloading the whole game "again", it will re verify and re download files again *sigh*.

[kaki_gamet]

Where is installation folder? Do you have permissions to access it, do Steam has the same permissions? Which anti virus are you running? Is it set aggressively? Or maybe it is a Steam-moment and will settle by itself, who knows.

[Wolfgang]

That sounds like you got a lot of corrupted files. How full is your SSD/HDD? You should always have at least 10-20% free space on them to work correctly. And if you use a HDD have you defragmented it recently? If not then you should do this.

[Altair (アルタイル)]

Wolfgang eredeti hozzászólása:

That sounds like you got a lot of corrupted files. How full is your SSD/HDD? You should always have at least 10-20% free space on them to work correctly. And if you use a HDD have you defragmented it recently? If not then you should do this.

It's not corrupted my M.2 has free 30GB space when I verify the game I just get a success message and nothing else. Even tried transferring it over to SSD or HDD same scenario.

[mojo_musica]

Altair (アルタイル) eredeti hozzászólása:

Wolfgang eredeti hozzászólása:

That sounds like you got a lot of corrupted files. How full is your SSD/HDD? You should always have at least 10-20% free space on them to work correctly. And if you use a HDD have you defragmented it recently? If not then you should do this.

It's not corrupted my M.2 has free 30GB space when I verify the game I just get a success message and nothing else. Even tried transferring it over to SSD or HDD same scenario.

This has been commented on a large number of times recently, it is due to the way Steam/SCS games handles downloads and updates, not because the game is re-downloading vast amounts of data.
If you use the Steam beta client (recommended), it is more obvious what is happening. The updates, of any size, are downloaded, then Steam installs them and displays the file size of your game install.
You can watch all this on the manage downloads page, it shows what is happening in real time, the actual data download, then the install. This is just the way that the file structure of the game works, it has to install the new data, then verify the whole game.
The other result of the Steam change was people getting continuous small downloads and patches, on an almost daily basis. This was Shader Pre-Caching data which is probably turned on by default in Steam, but can be turned off safely in the "settings" tab at the top of the Steam page. They also appeared to be huge, but were only 50 - 100 Mb, then patched in to the full game install. They are not needed, turning them off will not affect the game.

There is no need to move the game because of this, I have a dedicated NVme drive for all my Steam games library and I have not seen any degradation of the drive or had problems with trimming (de-fragging) or excessive data access. It all appears to behave normally.

[Altair (アルタイル)]

mojo_musica eredeti hozzászólása:

Altair (アルタイル) eredeti hozzászólása:

It's not corrupted my M.2 has free 30GB space when I verify the game I just get a success message and nothing else. Even tried transferring it over to SSD or HDD same scenario.

This has been commented on a large number of times recently, it is due to the way Steam/SCS games handles downloads and updates, not because the game is re-downloading vast amounts of data.
If you use the Steam beta client (recommended), it is more obvious what is happening. The updates, of any size, are downloaded, then Steam installs them and displays the file size of your game install.
You can watch all this on the manage downloads page, it shows what is happening in real time, the actual data download, then the install. This is just the way that the file structure of the game works, it has to install the new data, then verify the whole game.
The other result of the Steam change was people getting continuous small downloads and patches, on an almost daily basis. This was Shader Pre-Caching data which is probably turned on by default in Steam, but can be turned off safely in the "settings" tab at the top of the Steam page. They also appeared to be huge, but were only 50 - 100 Mb, then patched in to the full game install. They are not needed, turning them off will not affect the game.

There is no need to move the game because of this, I have a dedicated NVme drive for all my Steam games library and I have not seen any degradation of the drive or had problems with trimming (de-fragging) or excessive data access. It all appears to behave normally.

Good for you not for me, I just finished a quick run earlier and after launching ETS2 it won't start and after I re verify the game "Again" it is downloading 1GB file with no reason at all. Even with Shader Pre-Caching data is disabled, which is getting annoying If I was able to play earlier everything should be fine but it doesn't even check the files one by one but all of them are there and intact no changes before when an update shows like 100mb out of 500mb and everything is okay, there are also random instances when after it finished the downloaded size it will stop and then the size of the download will increase. This did not happen before, I am just tired troubleshooting this game over and over again.

It will work once everything is fixed and then after a couple hours or days it will do the same thing over again.

[mojo_musica]

Uninstall Steam and install the Steam beta version, I have been using it since it was released and it is stable and much better than the old version. It will become the default version in the near future, so may as well get used to it now.
I see this as a Steam problem at your end, rather than a game error, as there aren't huge numbers of similar reports on here.
Have you been to the official SCS forums and searched for this problem, or logged a bug complaint with SCS? Have you tried the Steam user forums or been in touch with the Steam admins?

You say it "won't start" but no details on that, could you give any error message or Windows error you see, or does it simply crash? if it does, please do this:
Go to "C:\Users\*your username*\Documents\Euro Truck Simulator 2" after a crash.
Open "game.log.txt" after the crash, (NOT game.crash.txt) in Notepad or other text editor.
Copy it all and then post it to pastebin.com (split in two parts if too big).
Post the link to that page on here.
If pastebin is not available in your country you can use http://rentry.co and post that page link here.

Are you using mods, especially large numbers of mods from the Workshop? Have you tried starting a new, unmodded, vanilla profile and testing the game?
Finally, have the permissions of the Steam game library folder/ (game).exe changed, does it have full read/write permissions and access allowed to all users?

[Altair (アルタイル)]

mojo_musica eredeti hozzászólása:

Uninstall Steam and install the Steam beta version, I have been using it since it was released and it is stable and much better than the old version. It will become the default version in the near future, so may as well get used to it now.
I see this as a Steam problem at your end, rather than a game error, as there aren't huge numbers of similar reports on here.
Have you been to the official SCS forums and searched for this problem, or logged a bug complaint with SCS? Have you tried the Steam user forums or been in touch with the Steam admins?

You say it "won't start" but no details on that, could you give any error message or Windows error you see, or does it simply crash? if it does, please do this:
Go to "C:\Users\*your username*\Documents\Euro Truck Simulator 2" after a crash.
Open "game.log.txt" after the crash, (NOT game.crash.txt) in Notepad or other text editor.
Copy it all and then post it to pastebin.com (split in two parts if too big).
Post the link to that page on here.
If pastebin is not available in your country you can use http://rentry.co and post that page link here.

Are you using mods, especially large numbers of mods from the Workshop? Have you tried starting a new, unmodded, vanilla profile and testing the game?
Finally, have the permissions of the Steam game library folder/ (game).exe changed, does it have full read/write permissions and access allowed to all users?

I have 3 profiles one clean profile and two profiles with workshop mods and the other is external mods, when I click play nothing happens nor the ets2 exe shows up on the task manager, the only way I can fix this is uninstall the whole game and re install it again which is a hassle. The game started to work again after re installing it and clearing the cache download under steam twice.