pak01.vpk is corrupt

[panda-butt]

Ever since the 7.36 update, I've experienced a crash about every 20 games or so. The error message I get says "pak01.vpk is corrupt. Verify integrity of game files". Every time it results in an abandon because dota will refuse to launch for about 20 minutes afterwards. I've tried reinstalling the game, and that didn't help. I even bought new ram and tested it with memtest (passed with 0 errors). Didn't help. When I contacted steam support about the issue, I was just told "Upgrade your hardware. I'm now closing this ticket". I have a Ryzen 7 7800x3d, rtx 4080, and 32gb of ddr5 ram. I don't think my hardware is the issue. Dota is the only game that crashes. Does anyone have any advice on how to fix this?

[schizophrenia patient]

check ur disk where installed dota

[panda-butt]

I've performed a diagnostic scan using Samsung Magician. Is there another software you'd suggest to test it?

[Nomad]

u can try to repair library through steam, i still dont have a solution though

[76561198321567671]

try downclock your RAM or disable docp/xmp profile

[panda-butt]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

try downclock your RAM or disable docp/xmp profile

I have tried disabling the expo profile, and that didn't help

[Dogologist]

I doubt your hard disk is corrupted so don't be surprised if you see your windows scanning and repairing the drive where you installed dota during starting up

[panda-butt]

Originally posted by Dogologist:

I doubt your hard disk is corrupted so don't be surprised if you see your windows scanning and repairing the drive where you installed dota during starting up

Windows hasn't tried repairing anything because as far as I can tell, nothing is actually wrong.

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by panda-butt:

Originally posted by Dogologist:

I doubt your hard disk is corrupted so don't be surprised if you see your windows scanning and repairing the drive where you installed dota during starting up

Windows hasn't tried repairing anything because as far as I can tell, nothing is actually wrong.

Check your disk's SMART data. Make sure everything is in the order.
If Dota is installed on an HDD, and not an SSD, then I recommend try doing a checkdisk, so see if any dead sectors are present. When HDDs are dying, they often produce big "blobs" of dead sectors. When that happens, HDD's "dead sectors" often grow over time, corrupting even more data, and you can see a distinct slowness in access to this disk.
Any case of impact on your PC case can also produce dead sectors, but that usually doesn't make the damage "grow" like when it dies on its own. So all you need is to move your Dota off that sector. That'll fix it.

[Nightcore 34tb of 2b hentai]

I had this error and no one could help FOREVER. I ended up down clocking my ram and still had the problem. I down clocked the freq even further from like 3,800mhz down to 3,200 mhz and I added slight DRAM voltage like 0.10. It ended up fixing it and I been enjoying the game again for the last few months without that crash or error anymore.

[Dogologist]

Originally posted by Nightcore 33gb of 2b Hentai:

I had this error and no one could help FOREVER. I ended up down clocking my ram and still had the problem. I down clocked the freq even further from like 3,800mhz down to 3,200 mhz and I added slight DRAM voltage like 0.10. It ended up fixing it and I been enjoying the game again for the last few months without that crash or error anymore.

Uninstall the game then reinstall it back in a ssd rather than hdd

[Nightcore 34tb of 2b hentai]

Originally posted by Dogologist:

Uninstall the game then reinstall it back in a ssd rather than hdd

I don't need help with my dota. I was replying to OP.

[panda-butt]

Originally posted by SiEgE:

Originally posted by panda-butt:

Windows hasn't tried repairing anything because as far as I can tell, nothing is actually wrong.

Check your disk's SMART data. Make sure everything is in the order.
If Dota is installed on an HDD, and not an SSD, then I recommend try doing a checkdisk, so see if any dead sectors are present. When HDDs are dying, they often produce big "blobs" of dead sectors. When that happens, HDD's "dead sectors" often grow over time, corrupting even more data, and you can see a distinct slowness in access to this disk.
Any case of impact on your PC case can also produce dead sectors, but that usually doesn't make the damage "grow" like when it dies on its own. So all you need is to move your Dota off that sector. That'll fix it.

I have dota installed on an ssd and it seems to be in perfect health

[panda-butt]

Originally posted by Nightcore 33gb of 2b Hentai:

I had this error and no one could help FOREVER. I ended up down clocking my ram and still had the problem. I down clocked the freq even further from like 3,800mhz down to 3,200 mhz and I added slight DRAM voltage like 0.10. It ended up fixing it and I been enjoying the game again for the last few months without that crash or error anymore.

I'll try this and see if it works

[No-Face]

same issue here. ryzen7 7800x3d rtx4070tisuper ddr5 6400Mhz ram
have done memtest86 with 0 error.
have disabled expo mode.
And “pak01.vpk is corrupt” just normally arose again.

[panda-butt]

Originally posted by No-Face:

same issue here. ryzen7 7800x3d rtx4070tisuper ddr5 6400Mhz ram
have done memtest86 with 0 error.
have disabled expo mode.
And “pak01.vpk is corrupt” just normally arose again.

I never found a fix