Installing update stuck >1 YEAR

[Salt]

After downloading for a couple of minutes, it goes "Installing 1%" and it's just stuck there.
I've tried restarting steam, changing download region and resetting windows firewall thinking it was a connection problem.
It's still stuck and now it doesn't even say how much time it'll take.
And I don't even wanna try to clear download cache as I'm 100% sure it'll destroy my game files.
Yes, I have the necessary GBs of space for the update.
What should I do?

[Dred1]

Give it a while, it's most likely still updating, it's just slow for whatever reason. Mine said the same thing about it taking 1 year, so I just left it in the background and played something else for a while. I checked again in an hour or so and it had finished,

[alexQc]

i had to reinstall the game today looks like they are having a big problem updating the game

[Salt]

Originally posted by Dred1:

Give it a while, it's most likely still updating, it's just slow for whatever reason. Mine said the same thing about it taking 1 year, so I just left it in the background and played something else for a while. I checked again in an hour or so and it had finished,

Well I hope that works, gonna be patient for now

[servantOfJESUS]

update for me took 10-15 hours when i could still update

it sticks but is not really frozen, just the update ticker sticks for a long time

now i have to reinstall each time because it requires 300g, and my ssd is 256


the solution for this, to change 10-15 hours update time to 5 min,

is to buy a 1tb+ ssd (i will next month when i can)


in the meantime, know you are not alone

every update this forum floods with these posts, since the beginning

[FlippityDippity]

If you have software monitoring your pc, you can view your read and write on this disk.

i was stuck at 1% as well, when i saw the disk was still writing. Once the disk stopped, it went from 1% to finished. hope this helps

[Seiko]

Originally posted by Salt:

After downloading for a couple of minutes, it goes "Installing 1%" and it's just stuck there.
I've tried restarting steam, changing download region and resetting windows firewall thinking it was a connection problem.
It's still stuck and now it doesn't even say how much time it'll take.
And I don't even wanna try to clear download cache as I'm 100% sure it'll destroy my game files.
Yes, I have the necessary GBs of space for the update.
What should I do?

If your current install drive does not have the space it requires steam will temporarily move the files to another drive during the patching process and this can greatly increase the time needed especially if you have limited space everywhere.

I run the game on a very fast 2TB Nvme of which 1 TB is always free and the game updates and patches very fast with no holdup, so have a look at your free space and maximise it where you can to help with this.

[KornKron]

It always stops at one percent, it is still updating it's just not showing the progress. This has been going on since this game was released. Just wait. It will finish although it shows no progress.

[Salt]

Yeah you guys were right, installing finished. Weird that it doesn't show any progress though.

[𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲]

whenever Ark updates, i always check task manager to make sure Steam is actually installing it. Today my SSD was reading at 6GB/s for around 20 seconds or so when it was at 1%.