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Apathetic Long Pig Jan 21, 2023 @ 11:59am

Corrupt update files

please help! all games over 20gb have a corrupt update files error in downloads and my smaller games keep crashing. I've tried everything i a quick google search.

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zidn Jan 21, 2023 @ 12:49pm

Apathetic Long Pig Jan 21, 2023 @ 9:00pm

Help me 76561199471333759
You're my only hope

no154370 Jan 21, 2023 @ 9:32pm

SSD or HDD failing is the most likely cause of it.

Apathetic Long Pig Jan 21, 2023 @ 9:48pm

Originally posted by no154370:
SSD or HDD failing is the most likely cause of it.

My ssd is brand new. I can play wow just fine. But steam has this stupid corrupt files error every time.

no154370 Jan 21, 2023 @ 9:54pm

Originally posted by Apathetic Long Pig:
Originally posted by no154370:
SSD or HDD failing is the most likely cause of it.
My ssd is brand new. I can play wow just fine. But steam has this stupid corrupt files error every time.

did you even check to make sure that your SSD is being installed properly.

did you even checked to make sure that there is no problems with your SSD as well??????

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i have seen people pushing the blame to Steam without bothering to check thoroughly whether the issue is on their Computers or not.

there are hundreds of thousands of people 24/7 using Steam Platform and they don't have "corrupt files" problem like you.

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there is also a possibility that the issue you facing can be cause by your anti virus program.

1) your anti virus program anyhow remove your Game Files without notifying you

this is called False Positives.

Apathetic Long Pig Jan 21, 2023 @ 10:07pm

Originally posted by no154370:
Originally posted by Apathetic Long Pig:
My ssd is brand new. I can play wow just fine. But steam has this stupid corrupt files error every time.

did you even check to make sure that your SSD is being installed properly.

did you even checked to make sure that there is no problems with your SSD as well??????

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i have seen people pushing the blame to Steam without bothering to check thoroughly whether the issue is on their Computers or not.

there are hundreds of thousands of people 24/7 using Steam Platform and they don't have "corrupt files" problem like you.

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there is also a possibility that the issue you facing can be cause by your anti virus program.

1) your anti virus program anyhow remove your Game Files without notifying you

this is called False Positives.

so i have installed fire fox, discord, WoW, even a few games from steam under 5gb like dawn of man, and space haven, all of this is on my ssd working just fine. but steam won't move the games out of the downloading folder and into their own folders. i've checked the folders after steam fails to verrify the integrity of the game files. there area a lot of files in the downloading folder and the games folder will be empty.
as for the anti virus i don't have any except windows defender. please don't hack me i just wanna play the witcher3 ;n;

Apathetic Long Pig Jan 21, 2023 @ 10:33pm

I'm so desperate I'm copy pasta the dl folder with all the Witcher files into the Witcher folder

Apathetic Long Pig Jan 21, 2023 @ 10:35pm

Originally posted by Apathetic Long Pig:
I'm so desperate I'm copy pasta the dl folder with all the Witcher files into the Witcher folder

This didn't work

Dr.Shadowds 🐉 Jan 21, 2023 @ 10:56pm

Are you using any 3rd party app that manages incoming data, file & permission, or scanning files?

If yes ensure that the 3rd party app isn't messing with Steam, or files in the folder.

If no, and all your Steam games are corrupted, just uninstall Steam, ensure that Steam folder is gone 100%, as don't want it left behind, and reinstall Steam, then redownload all your games.

Ensure your Storage drive is not having problems, even if you say it new, just verify it using crystaldisk info to check it health just in case.

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Apathetic Long Pig Jan 22, 2023 @ 1:14pm

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:
Are you using any 3rd party app that manages incoming data, file & permission, or scanning files?

If yes ensure that the 3rd party app isn't messing with Steam, or files in the folder.

If no, and all your Steam games are corrupted, just uninstall Steam, ensure that Steam folder is gone 100%, as don't want it left behind, and reinstall Steam, then redownload all your games.

Ensure your Storage drive is not having problems, even if you say it new, just verify it using crystaldisk info to check it health just in case.

This is a brand new install of windows 10 on this computer so there aren't any 3rd party apps yet but I will check when I get home tonight. I used checkdisk on my SSD and it was fine but I'll try crystal disk tonight. I even got a new SSD and put windows and steam on there. I've uninstalled steam and reinstalled it. I've tried reinstalling windows more than thrice. I do plan to completely remove my m.2 SSD tonight just to see but I haven't yet cuz I have to unscrew a heat sink to get to it

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Apathetic Long Pig Jan 22, 2023 @ 7:10pm

Originally posted by nullable:
New hardware can be defective, so don't dismiss it because you find it inconvenient. Most other users aren't having this issue, so looking at your system is reasonable.

For example I bought the wife new RAM a few years ago. And she could use her system most of the time without issue, but eventually she'd get a blue screen, and there was a a bad address in the RAM and trying it in memtest86 revealed one of the new sticks was faulty.

Would have done no good to say the RAM is new, or that the system (usually) only crashes when running Adobe Illustrator.

So windows just straight up told me finally that it is in fact a memory issue. Could have used that pop-up sooner.

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