worst case steam disk write error in the history of this ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ client

[Papa Bless]

this client is beyond the worse ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing i have ever used. this steam disk write error is the most frustrating thing I have ever dealt with. i have 2 SSDs, and i cant download a single ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game on either of them.

I have tried clearing download cache
i have tried changing the region
i have done some stupid command prompt ♥♥♥♥ selecting the disk and changing it to readonly
i have tried deleting the 0kb game folders that for some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reason appear in common
i have tried reinstalling and installing steam
i have done "disk repairs" on a... ssd???
i have gone as far as downloading games on battlenet just to truly see if its my "disk" and had no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ problems re-downloading that garbage ass game bo4

this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, if anyone can help me i'd appreciate it i am beyond mald.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Did you format them as ntfs on windows?

Note: Format deletes all files on a drive

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by Papa Bless:

i have done some stupid command prompt ♥♥♥♥ selecting the disk and changing it to readonly

Why should preventing writing help?

[Papa Bless]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Originally posted by Papa Bless:

i have done some stupid command prompt ♥♥♥♥ selecting the disk and changing it to readonly

Why should preventing writing help?

bro idk i went through guides and said that was one of the "solutions"

[Papa Bless]

theyre both NTFS on disk management

[ShelLuser]

Sounds more plausible that you're suffering from severe hardware problems and you're now blaming the messenger: Steam. I'd suggest to carefully verify your hardware status and overal system integrity.

[Papa Bless]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

Sounds more plausible that you're suffering from severe hardware problems and you're now blaming the messenger: Steam. I'd suggest to carefully verify your hardware status and overal system integrity.

okay, so i have severe enough hardware problems that i can download a game from any other launcher but steam and im not supposed to blame the one launcher that is incapable of downloading a game?

[Muppet among Puppets]

What i would do now:

Move all files of one of the ssd to another place.
Setting it up as when it was new. Especially removing the read only setting etc.

They should run fine as they come. Test it with that drive then.
If still not working, trying another sata slot. (Maybe setting up fresh again)

Be carefull to handle the target ssd only, not deleting something else.

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by Papa Bless:

okay, so i have severe enough hardware problems that i can download a game from any other launcher but steam and im not supposed to blame the one launcher that is incapable of downloading a game?

I can easily come up with scenarios that would definitely fit that situation.

For example... Steam applies caching, so if the client has already occupied some problematic storage sections then this could easily happen.

And of course... how large are the files you try to download using Steam vs. the files you tried to download from other areas? Size differences could also explain this.

Another one: temporary files vs. regular files.

There are dozens of scenarios which could explain this behavior. Most of all: if this were a bug within the Steam client itself then we should have seen a lot more reports like these. Yet.. nothing.

[Satoru]

Disk write errors are generally

1) your anti-virus killing the download
2) your anti-virus heuristics is killing it

[SUPP or Feed]

I'm having the same issue. Tried everything, except for the whole command prompt thing, and resetting my windows from scratch. I checked anti-virus as well, and turning them all off. In any case, I'm having trouble installing monster hunter world RIGHT AFTER i downloaded it completely (did it SEVERAL times). Also having trouble with witcher 3. I was ABLE to download and install DOTA 2 though. (forgot to mention that this all started with a 270 mb update on MHW just this 08/07/2020. I remembered having a steam update too recently, but can't remember if it came before or not.

[SUPP or Feed]

I just found something out for avast anti-virus users. Something with disabling file shield or maybe the core shield in the settings. It looks like it's working out?? (Though still skeptical)

[vexviron]

Steam is not your problem. Millions of users use Steam daily and your issue "Papa Bless" seems to be "just your issue". My suggestion, format your hard drive, re-installed win10, fully update windows and your video card drivers; plus anything extra hardware you added to the system. Then install Steam, then install your games. If you have an issue after that, then its not Steam or Win10, its your PC. Software normally doesn't work when hardware fails.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by How to Feed (Fred):

I just found something out for avast anti-virus users. Something with disabling file shield or maybe the core shield in the settings. It looks like it's working out?? (Though still skeptical)

Note that many antivirus have 2 modes

1) standard scrubbing of antivirus based on known signatures
2) a 'hueristics' model which guesses if something is a virus. These things guess wrong 99% of the time

Likely your 'shield' module is one that is 'guessing' the steam download is a virus and kills the download.

Honestly nearly all consumer level anti-virus is utter garbage. You're honestly better off using MS Defender which is free and does pretty much everything most other anti-virus does anyway and doesnt contain ad-ware or other nag-ware nonsense.