satisfactory not downloading

[StardustGamer]

so i was playing satisfactory a few days ago and for some reason it wont download so i can play it. i have it installed but it just wont work. so it says "download paused" and it shows the gb download. i click resume and it just goes back to "resume". sometimes itll say "verifying" but when the bar gets full itll go right back to "resume". it was working fine 2 days ago but it started doing this yesterday, the game wont even launch at all. does anyone know whats going on here??
heres a pic of it https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/319656277091287050/921950216972816444/unknown.png

[Uueerdo]

Are any of your drives full or near full?

[StardustGamer]

Originally posted by Uueerdo:

Are any of your drives full or near full?

nope. they are far from full.

[StardustGamer]

i clicked on the download and it says "disc write error" and i have no idea what that means or what to do.

[cywizz]

I would uninstall first. Run a check on your disk to ensure there aren't any issues, as sometimes the above error is an indication of a disk failing. If all is fine, reinstall the game.

[Lil Puppy]

F:\Games\Steam\steamapps\downloading

Find your steam install location, go to the folder above (just an example)
Exit steam
Delete the downloading folder (it's become corrupted)

Play the game.

[StardustGamer]

Originally posted by cywizz:

I would uninstall first. Run a check on your disk to ensure there aren't any issues, as sometimes the above error is an indication of a disk failing. If all is fine, reinstall the game.

i checked my HDD and it said its running fine with no errors. i tried uninstalling and reinstalling and nothing. satisfactory is the only game this is happening to.

[StardustGamer]

Originally posted by Lil Puppy:

F:\Games\Steam\steamapps\downloading

Find your steam install location, go to the folder above (just an example)
Exit steam
Delete the downloading folder (it's become corrupted)

Play the game.

what?? i have no idea what your getting at. do i unistall steam and reinstall?

[sansee]

Normally within the realm of computers;

"Delete" means you need to manually navigate to a specific folder/file, and use the "del" button on the keyboard, or right-click with the mouse and select "delete", or by using the command line.

"Uninstall" means you properly (and more completely) remove the program from the system (files, folders, settings, register nodes), and either let a launcher or a program (like Steam or geekuninstaller) do it for you, or by using the one that comes with the OS, in this case Windows.

But yes, Steam is the problem here and this can happen from time to time.

[StardustGamer]

Originally posted by sansee:

Normally within the realm of computers;

"Delete" means you need to manually navigate to a specific folder/file, and use the "del" button on the keyboard, or right-click with the mouse and select "delete", or by using the command line.

"Uninstall" means you properly (and more completely) remove the program from the system (files, folders, settings, register nodes), and either let a launcher or a program (like Steam or geekuninstaller) do it for you, or by using the one that comes with the OS, in this case Windows.

But yes, Steam is the problem here and this can happen from time to time.

ok so what do i do? i have no idea on what to do. should i uninstall steam and redownload it or do i delete a specific folder? idk what to do, i dont know alot on what to do or how to fix problems on computers lol.

[StardustGamer]

bump. can anyone help me?

[Lil Puppy]

Ok.

Go to the Start Button
type the word: file
hit enter key on keyboard
This file explorer window has a bunch of things on the left
you will have to navigate (click on the appropriate ones) to find where you installed STEAM.
The default location is
C:\Program Files\Steam

Go to: Steam\steamapps\downloading

Using your mouse, select everything in that folder (the right side of the window) drag your mouse with the left button down across all the items in that folder.
OR press the following keys at the same time: CTRL-A
That is Select All in computers.

Now that everything is highlighted in a blue color or light gray color (depends on your system settings light or dark mode).
Press the DEL key on your keyboard or right click on the highlighted items and select DELETE.

The reason your install wont work is because the steam downloads cache is corrupted. Deleting it will fix your problem.
YOU NEVER WANT TO UNINSTALL STEAM. You will destroy many of your saves and all your screenshots if you do that.

[StardustGamer]

Originally posted by Lil Puppy:

Ok.

Go to the Start Button
type the word: file
hit enter key on keyboard
This file explorer window has a bunch of things on the left
you will have to navigate (click on the appropriate ones) to find where you installed STEAM.
The default location is
C:\Program Files\Steam

Go to: Steam\steamapps\downloading

Using your mouse, select everything in that folder (the right side of the window) drag your mouse with the left button down across all the items in that folder.
OR press the following keys at the same time: CTRL-A
That is Select All in computers.

Now that everything is highlighted in a blue color or light gray color (depends on your system settings light or dark mode).
Press the DEL key on your keyboard or right click on the highlighted items and select DELETE.

The reason your install wont work is because the steam downloads cache is corrupted. Deleting it will fix your problem.
YOU NEVER WANT TO UNINSTALL STEAM. You will destroy many of your saves and all your screenshots if you do that.

didnt work either, i tried messaging the support team for satisfactory and they said it was a steam issue. but everything ive tried doesnt seem to fix the issue. ill order another hard drive and see if i can transfer my game to that one and get it to work. but its odd that it was working 1 minute then the next day it just broke. makes no sense. thanks for the help though.

[Lil Puppy]

If you want to leave it at that, we can stop, there are plenty of other things you can do though.
1. We can trick Steam into thinking the game isn't installed so you have to start over from scratch.
2. Satisfactory might not be completely uninstalled, we should clear out all the files.
3. We can manually uninstall Steam the proper way so you don't lose anything and then make steam to install again and fix its corrupted files.

Option #1:
Exit Steam.
Open explorer.exe again (file explorer - yellow folder icon on your task bar)
go to your steam install location
default is C:\Program Files\Steam
go into the steamapps folder
find the file called: appmanifest_526870.acf
Delete it (right click on it and select delete), confirm you want to delete it.
Start Steam, go to Satisfactory and click the install button. It should start downloading it properly.

Option #2:
Exit Steam.
Clear out the downloads cache again as in previous post.
Open explorer.exe again
go to your steam install location
default is C:\Program Files\Steam
Go into steamapps folder then to the common folder
If the Satisfactory folder exists, delete it (right click on it, select delete)
Now, in the address bar type: %localappdata%\FactoryGame
If you want to back up the saves, if you have any, copy and paste the Saved folder anywhere else you want. You can put the saves back later.
Select everything in the FactoryGame folder and delete it (CTRL-A, press DEL key OR right click on each and select delete).
Start Steam and reinstall the game.

Option 3 requires deleting a lot of files and you want to be careful not to select the wrong ones, we'll do that if option 1&2 doesn't work.

[StardustGamer]

Originally posted by Lil Puppy:

If you want to leave it at that, we can stop, there are plenty of other things you can do though.
1. We can trick Steam into thinking the game isn't installed so you have to start over from scratch.
2. Satisfactory might not be completely uninstalled, we should clear out all the files.
3. We can manually uninstall Steam the proper way so you don't lose anything and then make steam to install again and fix its corrupted files.

Option #1:
Exit Steam.
Open explorer.exe again (file explorer - yellow folder icon on your task bar)
go to your steam install location
default is C:\Program Files\Steam
go into the steamapps folder
find the file called: appmanifest_526870.acf
Delete it (right click on it and select delete), confirm you want to delete it.
Start Steam, go to Satisfactory and click the install button. It should start downloading it properly.

Option #2:
Exit Steam.
Clear out the downloads cache again as in previous post.
Open explorer.exe again
go to your steam install location
default is C:\Program Files\Steam
Go into steamapps folder then to the common folder
If the Satisfactory folder exists, delete it (right click on it, select delete)
Now, in the address bar type: %localappdata%\FactoryGame
If you want to back up the saves, if you have any, copy and paste the Saved folder anywhere else you want. You can put the saves back later.
Select everything in the FactoryGame folder and delete it (CTRL-A, press DEL key OR right click on each and select delete).
Start Steam and reinstall the game.

Option 3 requires deleting a lot of files and you want to be careful not to select the wrong ones, we'll do that if option 1&2 doesn't work.

im currently downloading factory to a different hard drive and seeing if that works. sorry for the late reply. if not ill try the steps you have there.

[vortex]

I had same problem, Steam crashed when i tried to download Satisfactory. I removed "downloading" folder when steam was down. Started it up again and it worked. Thx for help