Got another disk write error and I'm absolutely over it

[Panzer]

I WAS looking forward to playing something tonight. I get to my pc, and the game's got an update. Should be no problem. But steam and I say ONLY STEAM has this thing where specific games will get either a disk WRITE error, a disk READ error, or a "corrupt disk" error. I've checked all my drives and there was no problems with them, I did a windows memory diagnostic thing, there wasn't any memory problems. I've repeatedly gone through the steam app's permissions and ticked EVERYTHING for ALL users (I'm the only one who uses this pc though). It shouldn't be anything wrong with my drives, because one of them is very new, and like I said, it is ONLY STEAM which does this. I don't recall this occuring for the epic launcher, battlenet, even EA's silly little "origin" launcher. And it is only specific games which will get these errors, and I believe it's only when updating. Specifically: Marvel Rivals, Snowrunner, and Call Of Duty.

What do I do? I've asked multiple times and got nothing, I NEED a fix, I can't keep reinstalling games every time they update because I'm in australia (trash internet speeds).
I'm not the best with technology, my PC was assembled by a friend, so I've got no idea on what I should do.

[nullable]

Well what are your PC specs?

AT any rate I'm skeptical this is a Steam issue for a couple of reasons. First personally I've been using Steam for over twenty years across a dozen different PC's and maybe two dozen different drives. I can't say I've experienced disk write issues using Steam. Two, it's not a problem most users experience. Three, Steam reporting an error it encountered doesn't necessarily make Steam responsible for that error. And there's plenty of plausible explanations "only Steam" encounters an error writing to disk. Namely I'd be willing to bet it's using the most space on the drive and is frequently used.

You did gt a little vague when discussing the diagnostics. You claim you've checked all your drives and they were fine. How did you check them? And you did a windows memory diagnostic (which why be specific about non-disk tests you've done but not the disk tests?). Since you're self-admitted not the best with technology I think there may still be a little wiggle room in troubleshooting.

If the issue is your drive, then the fix would be a replacement drive. If the issue is something else on your system, you kinda need to find the root cause before you can address it. The fix may not involve Steam at all at any rate. And I'm not aware of any Steam meddling that can be done to prevent Steam from failing due to disk write errors and it doesn't seem terribly plausible at the moment that they're phantom disk write errors.

[Panzer]

Publicado originalmente por nullable:

Well what are your PC specs?

AT any rate I'm skeptical this is a Steam issue for a couple of reasons. First personally I've been using Steam for over twenty years across a dozen different PC's and maybe two dozen different drives. I can't say I've experienced disk write issues using Steam. Two, it's not a problem most users experience. Three, Steam reporting an error it encountered doesn't necessarily make Steam responsible for that error. And there's plenty of plausible explanations "only Steam" encounters an error writing to disk. Namely I'd be willing to bet it's using the most space on the drive and is frequently used.

You did gt a little vague when discussing the diagnostics. You claim you've checked all your drives and they were fine. How did you check them? And you did a windows memory diagnostic (which why be specific about non-disk tests you've done but not the disk tests?). Since you're self-admitted not the best with technology I think there may still be a little wiggle room in troubleshooting.

If the issue is your drive, then the fix would be a replacement drive. If the issue is something else on your system, you kinda need to find the root cause before you can address it. The fix may not involve Steam at all at any rate. And I'm not aware of any Steam meddling that can be done to prevent Steam from failing due to disk write errors and it doesn't seem terribly plausible at the moment that they're phantom disk write errors.

Apologies for the late reply, I did manage to get past it without reinstalling the game, though it involved reinstalling steam itself, and when I reinstalled, it uninstalled I believe ALL of the games installed on the same drive steam was installed on. Here are the pc specs, idk why I didn't think of posting them before sorry.

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
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No Touch Input Detected
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6 physical processors
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FCMOV: Supported
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SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
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SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported
BMI1: Supported
BMI2: Supported
F16C: Supported
FMA: Supported
Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
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Browser GPU Acceleration Status: Enabled
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Browser Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
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Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
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Driver Version: 32.0.15.6636
DirectX Driver Version: 32.0.15.6636
Driver Date: 12 3 2024
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Monitor Refresh Rate: 74 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
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No SLI or Crossfire Detected
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Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (Logitech G733 Gaming
Memory:
RAM: 16334 Mb
VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected
Miscellaneous:
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Media Type: DVD
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OS Install Date: Nov 01 2020
Game Controller: Xbox One Controller detected
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Storage:
Disk serial number hash: 7caac2d3
Number of SSDs: 2
SSD sizes: 1000G,480G
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HDD sizes: 2000G
Number of removable drives: 0

[Capt Jack Doicy]

I am having this same issue. For one drive it won't finish the installation at all. On another drive there are certain games Total Warhammer III, Indiana Jones etc where if it updates them it fails to finish the update (gets to 100% then has a disk write error) the only way to solve it is to uninstall the game and reinstall it.

[raysny57]

You're not alone on the "Disk Write Failure" error. I have an issue with the Ark Ascended load. Gets as far as the ArkAscended.exe and then throws a failure every time. Nothing wrong with the SSD but for whatever reason it is failing. I've uninstalled and tried reinstall twice now and failed. I've uninstalled and installed in admin mode once and it failed. Deleted the cache. I haven't tried reinstalling steam but may end up there.

[Satoru]

Note disk write errors are not a steam problem. Its because steam cannot write to the files

1) Steam does not have permission . This can generally be fixed by running steam as an administrator

2) your antivirus. Nearly all consumer level anti-virus is trash. Uninstall whatever you're running and use Windows Defender. Its free. It works just as well as all the other anti-virus trash. And gives almost no false positives. And doesn't have massive amounts of bloat to slow down your system because it wants to constantly lock files steam is trying to update