Corrupt downloads

[Ignatius]

Hey, so I have a question. How come every time I try to download something, it always either says "An error occurred while updating ____ (download corrupt)," or as soon as I start downloading, less than five seconds later, it reschedules, and never downloads? I noticed that as soon as I downloaded Assassin's Creed Black Flag, this started happening. Everything was great until then. Get back to me on this, because even uninstalling steam and getting rid of all of its files had no effect on this problem whatsoever. I also have a perfect internet connection.

[HIgh_Amperage21]

because internet isnt the issue your files for the game is
something didnt download or your computer blocked some content and thought it was a virus try and uninstall all files and redownload ty for your question.

[Ignatius]

read the whole thing. that was the first thing i tried. already tried deleting EVERY steam file i had

[ric]

same here. Cant download says its corrupt. Auto-downloads dont work it keeps rescheduling them 8 mins after. WTF this started happening Monday.
Googled the problem and came up with these links

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2wffjw/why_does_steam_keep_scheduling_my_downloads/

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/611696927907574027/

nothing worked

[Ignatius]

Originally posted by ric:

same here. Cant download says its corrupt. Auto-downloads dont work it keeps rescheduling them 8 mins after. WTF this started happening Monday.
Googled the problem and came up with these links

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2wffjw/why_does_steam_keep_scheduling_my_downloads/

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/611696927907574027/

nothing worked

Unfortunately, it seems nobody has had our problem. Only mine started IMMEDIATELY AFTER I bought Assassin's Creed Black Flag. I'm not sure if anyone else has had this issue right after installing that particular game...

[Ignatius]

Well, It seems as though I've fixed my problem, though I'm still in the process of testing it. What i did was went into my files, onto "My PC," and searched steam. After everything appeared, I highlighted everything and deleted it all, including steam, which inevitably deleted all game files on steam itself (had over 2-300 GB worth of games downloaded perhaps). However, in the end, the downloads that were corrupt when I tried downloading them are now starting to download fine (starting to because I haven't been able to fully download anything yet). If it works or not, I'll update this post to say so.

[Ignatius]

unfortunately, it didn't work at all. If anything, It's worse than before.... PLEASE HELP! :(

[ric]

yea nothing works..just gotta keep pressing download now...steam aint gonna help lol

[Ignatius]

Originally posted by ric:

yea nothing works..just gotta keep pressing download now...steam aint gonna help lol

I figured out 2 ways to fix the problem: 1, you can either just hook up your computer to the modem, or 2, you put steam in big picture mode and for some reason you will no longer have download problems. Very weird, but I'll take any solution I can get.

[ric]

Originally posted by Lost Shadows:

Originally posted by ric:

yea nothing works..just gotta keep pressing download now...steam aint gonna help lol

I figured out 2 ways to fix the problem: 1, you can either just hook up your computer to the modem, or 2, you put steam in big picture mode and for some reason you will no longer have download problems. Very weird, but I'll take any solution I can get.

thank you!

[The Giving One]

Quick way and easy way to test if there is a problem such as software that does not like Steam causing the "download corrupt" error is to do the following...

Boot your computer into safe mode with networking and use Steam there. If you can download fine that way, then start with this list...

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

Usually or very often, it is your antivirus program not properly configured for Steam or just a bad one in general, according to the list.

Yes, even if you use this software before for a long time without issues. Pay that no attention. Just troubleshoot the problem in a step-by-step manner.

[El Inca Peruano ツ]

:(

[Crossfire]

I am seeing this behavior intermittently where on some days every download is "corrupted" after 100 MB get downloaded. Since Steam is not printing out any useful error logs, and there are no reliable methods to fix this bug, I did this workaround:

- install ptfbpro or similar macro recorder
- record a macro that clicks on the error dialog's "Ok" button and then clicks on the game's "Play" button

Keep this macro looping until the game is completely downloaded.

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Crossfire:

I did this workaround:
- install ptfbpro or similar macro recorder
- record a macro that clicks on the error dialog's "Ok" button and then clicks on the game's "Play" button

Keep this macro looping until the game is completely downloaded.

This seems like a bit of a headache. Why not find and fix the actual issue that is causing this ?

What is your antivirus program ? Do you have any other anti-intrusion software such as antispyware on your PC also ?

Check this list carefully.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

EDIT...

Originally posted by Crossfire:

and there are no reliable methods to fix this bug,

How can you know that ? I don't see where you have posted asking for help about this before.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Crossfire_/posthistory/

[Crossfire]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

This seems like a bit of a headache. Why not find and fix the actual issue that is causing this ?

Because that's not possible when "Download corrupted" is the only information available. If Valve were to print out what exactly caused the download to be aborted there would be a chance to diagnose the problem.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

Been there, done that.

How can you know that ? I don't see where you have posted asking for help about this before.

First rule of discussion boards: search before posting.

There are a number of threads dedicated to this catch-all error. The typical suggestions are to disable incompatible software (none on the list), hardlining the PC (not going to pull wires across 2 floors), rebooting PC (done), disabling firewall (done), disabling anti-virus (done), checking for disk errors (done), deleting all or part of the Steamapps folder (done). For some people these suggestions work, for some they work temporarily, and for others they don't work at all.
For me the problem is intermittent- I have not had Steam download problems for 5 weeks, but today the "corrupted downloads" are back without any major configuration changes.

Hence the workaround I suggest above which took about 1/10th the time compared to going through all the so-called fixes.

[The Giving One]

@Crossfire

I don't see where you have tried to use safe mode with networking to troubleshoot your Steam client and downloads that way.

If you have only searched but not asked for help, then you have not done all you can do there. If you want to explore actually fixing that issue that you have, I suggest that you please make a new thread about it and my profile is open for comments.

You can leave the link to it on my profile and I promise you that I will try to help you, as well as others in the community that wish to post and give advice.

What you do is up to you. It CAN be fixed. I have NEVER in 8 years from XP to Windows 7 had a download corrupt error. Yes I know that does not necessarily mean anything, but I will be glad to help you if you wish.