Disk Write Error, need help

[Malaria]

I've got a problem with downloading shadow of war, each time I try to download it, no 42GB (more or less) it gives me "Disk Write Error" and repeats it each time I try to continue downloading. I tryed all I could find in internet to fix it, but still, I can't download it. If anybody knows what's the problem, please help, I'll really appreciate it.

[Kid Meatball]

I had the same problem. I downloaded it to a different drive and that solved the problem.

[Malaria]

Originally posted by Kid Meatball:

I had the same problem. I downloaded it to a different drive and that solved the problem.

Didn't try that, hope it works, thanks anyway.

[Flesh Collector]

Are you sure that you have enough space availble for the game to download?
When I downloaded it, it took like 90gb of space

[Malaria]

Originally posted by Rubix:

Are you sure that you have enough space availble for the game to download?
When I downloaded it, it took like 90gb of space

Yeah, I have about 150GB of available space.

[Ancient]

Originally posted by Malaria:

Originally posted by Rubix:

Are you sure that you have enough space availble for the game to download?
When I downloaded it, it took like 90gb of space

Yeah, I have about 150GB of available space.

You may need a lot more than that free. You essentially have to have enough free for both the download archives and the game and the game without optional packs is ~110GB. After the install is complete the download archives will be deleted and that space regained, but you still need enough for them + game install to get the install to complete.

[Malaria]

Originally posted by Ancient:

Originally posted by Malaria:

Yeah, I have about 150GB of available space.

You may need a lot more than that free. You essentially have to have enough free for both the download archives and the game and the game without optional packs is ~110GB. After the install is complete the download archives will be deleted and that space regained, but you still need enough for them + game install to get the install to complete.

Will 206GB be enough? Cuz if not, I don't know what to do. I deleted everything I didn't need and only important files are left.

[Ancient]

Try starting up the download and see if it throws any errors.

You can monitor the contents of ..\Steam\steamapps\downloading\ as well as the game's install folder to see what steam is doing. It varies by game. For some games there are a series of archives and it will extract files to the install folder periodically throughout the download, while for others it's just one large archive that extracts once finished.

I would think 200GB+ should be enough though.

[Malaria]

Originally posted by Ancient:

Try starting up the download and see if it throws any errors.

You can monitor the contents of ..\Steam\steamapps\downloading\ as well as the game's install folder to see what steam is doing. It varies by game. For some games there are a series of archives and it will extract files to the install folder periodically throughout the download, while for others it's just one large archive that extracts once finished.

I would think 200GB+ should be enough though.

It was downloading all night and gave me some errors.
Failed to write chunk in file "game\cinematics\videos\side_missions\RSM_10_20.vib", 1048576 bytes at offset 30408704 (File Not Found)
Failed to write chunk in file "corecharacter_0.arch05", 1048576 bytes at offset 8774108 (File Not Found)
Failed to write chunk in file "game\cinematics\videos\golden_path\05_blade\B_15_10.vib", 1048576 bytes at offset 11534336 (File Not Found)
Failed to write chunk in file "game\cinematics\videos\golden_path\04_shelob\s_10_10.vib", 1048576 bytes at offset 67108864 (File Not Found)
Failed to write chunk in file "game\sound\FrenchFrance\vo.pck", 1048576 bytes at offset 85983232 (File Not Found)

[Malaria]

Originally posted by Ancient:

Try starting up the download and see if it throws any errors.

You can monitor the contents of ..\Steam\steamapps\downloading\ as well as the game's install folder to see what steam is doing. It varies by game. For some games there are a series of archives and it will extract files to the install folder periodically throughout the download, while for others it's just one large archive that extracts once finished.

I would think 200GB+ should be enough though.

Didn't help. Stoped again on 42GB.

[Rdven]

Originally posted by Malaria:

I've got a problem with downloading shadow of war, each time I try to download it, no 42GB (more or less) it gives me "Disk Write Error" and repeats it each time I try to continue downloading. I tryed all I could find in internet to fix it, but still, I can't download it. If anybody knows what's the problem, please help, I'll really appreciate it.

I googled a bit and found


1.(many claim this solved this issue) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9PTrsR0EkU
2. https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2274-IFLV-5334 (steam support)

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/496880203071132599/
(this one is like the 1 pretty much)
and
https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmanager/steam-disk-write-error.html
the last one provides many solutions,I'd advise youtrying the simple ones first

[Malaria]

Fixed it only with downloading a torrent and putting all the files into steam folder.

[Jokery]

its because you guys install games in C or where the windows is installed, run steam as administratior should help too

ive never had this problem for any game since i never install in same drive where the windows installed

[Malaria]

Originally posted by Jokery:

its because you guys install games in C or where the windows is installed, run steam as administratior should help too

ive never had this problem for any game since i never install in same drive where the windows installed

It was in D and steam was run as administrator, didn't help. I already wrote the way I solved this problem.