Make Verification of Game Files After Instillation Optional

[Primordial Disco]

The last thing most people want to do is sit for 3 hours waiting for a three hundred GB game to verify after a 1 gb update or worse having to verify it before after some files went wrong, due to odd circumstances. Ive spent more time in the last week trying to verifying ARK than actually playing it and its absolutely frustrating that this change to verifying has resulted in such a exhausting experience .

Edit: I have also just now learned that if you pause the validation, it restarts all progress back to where it began. Meaning the installation of the DLC.

[Gwarsbane]

If the game has to verify your files for a game that means something is wrong on your end that keeps causing them to need to be verified.

More then likely you have a hard drive issue or maybe its an overactive antivirus issue or something else.


To be able to play the game, you need the same files as everyone else, because you don't the game has to check to see what ones are broken, and download them again.

Check to see if its exes that you are missing or having issues with, if it is, its more then likely an overactive antivirus. If its not it might be something else. Either way, its not a Steam problem, its something on your end problem and you need to track it down.

[Primordial Disco]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

If the game has to verify your files for a game that means something is wrong on your end that keeps causing them to need to be verified.

More then likely you have a hard drive issue or maybe its an overactive antivirus issue or something else.


To be able to play the game, you need the same files as everyone else, because you don't the game has to check to see what ones are broken, and download them again.

Check to see if its exes that you are missing or having issues with, if it is, its more then likely an overactive antivirus. If its not it might be something else. Either way, its not a Steam problem, its something on your end problem and you need to track it down.

The furthest I use for antivirus is the defualt windows one, gonna be real. How would I get it to chill so that it'd verify at a reasonable pace?

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by Lil Mo:

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

If the game has to verify your files for a game that means something is wrong on your end that keeps causing them to need to be verified.

More then likely you have a hard drive issue or maybe its an overactive antivirus issue or something else.


To be able to play the game, you need the same files as everyone else, because you don't the game has to check to see what ones are broken, and download them again.

Check to see if its exes that you are missing or having issues with, if it is, its more then likely an overactive antivirus. If its not it might be something else. Either way, its not a Steam problem, its something on your end problem and you need to track it down.

The furthest I use for antivirus is the defualt windows one, gonna be real. How would I get it to chill so that it'd verify at a reasonable pace?

You can tell it to exclude certain folders.

Double click the little shield down in the right corner.
Click on Virus & Threat Protection
Click on Manage Settings under Virus & Threat Protection settings
Scroll down to where you see Exclusions
Click on add or remove exclusion.

A little popup should ask you if you are ok if it does something to windows, say yes.

Click on add an exclusion, then click on folder and add the steam folder or folders where you have games installed.

I'm not saying this is the issue. It could be something else, but without being in front of your system and seeing exactly whats going on I can only point you in this direction as this is what it seems like.

I personally haven't had this issue, but every system is different. I'm on windows 10, you could be on windows 11 which could be the difference.

[Primordial Disco]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Originally posted by Lil Mo:

The furthest I use for antivirus is the defualt windows one, gonna be real. How would I get it to chill so that it'd verify at a reasonable pace?

You can tell it to exclude certain folders.

Double click the little shield down in the right corner.
Click on Virus & Threat Protection
Click on Manage Settings under Virus & Threat Protection settings
Scroll down to where you see Exclusions
Click on add or remove exclusion.

A little popup should ask you if you are ok if it does something to windows, say yes.

Click on add an exclusion, then click on folder and add the steam folder or folders where you have games installed.

I'm not saying this is the issue. It could be something else, but without being in front of your system and seeing exactly whats going on I can only point you in this direction as this is what it seems like.

I personally haven't had this issue, but every system is different. I'm on windows 10, you could be on windows 11 which could be the difference.

Nah Im also on 10,I added the exception. Sometimes it'll go up to 142 MB/s but most of the time it stays down to 9MB/s, which is a bummer.

[The End]

Originally posted by Lil Mo:

The last thing most people want to do is sit for 3 hours waiting for a three hundred GB game to verify after a 1 gb update or worse having to verify it before after some files went wrong,

That is to be sure everything is ok after installing/updating the game.

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

If the game has to verify your files for a game that means something is wrong on your end that keeps causing them to need to be verified.

Steam is actually verifying after updates/installation of games.
Nothing to do with the users computer.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by The End:

Originally posted by Lil Mo:

The last thing most people want to do is sit for 3 hours waiting for a three hundred GB game to verify after a 1 gb update or worse having to verify it before after some files went wrong,

That is to be sure everything is ok after installing/updating the game.

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

If the game has to verify your files for a game that means something is wrong on your end that keeps causing them to need to be verified.

Steam is actually verifying after updates/installation of games.
Nothing to do with the users computer.

It was this part that makes me think its the antivirus...

Ive spent more time in the last week trying to verifying ARK than actually playing it

Which makes it sound like they have installed it and then over the course of a week tried to play the game but could not because it kept needing to be verified.

If it was just because of a slow download and then slow install, well there is nothing Valve can do as you say it needs to be verified after it downloads.


But if they have to keep verifying it time after time well then thats an antivirus or system problem. I can only go by what is said, I would know more if I had the system in front of me and could see what its doing.

[The End]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

It was this part that makes me think its the antivirus...

Ive spent more time in the last week trying to verifying ARK than actually playing it

Which makes it sound like they have installed it and then over the course of a week tried to play the game but could not because it kept needing to be verified.

If it was just because of a slow download and then slow install, well there is nothing Valve can do as you say it needs to be verified after it downloads.


But if they have to keep verifying it time after time well then thats an antivirus or system problem. I can only go by what is said, I would know more if I had the system in front of me and could see what its doing.

That I have to agree too, sounds like something really is wrong, if he actually used a week just verifying the game. Sorry, that part slipped by my attention.

[Primordial Disco]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Originally posted by The End:

That is to be sure everything is ok after installing/updating the game.


Steam is actually verifying after updates/installation of games.
Nothing to do with the users computer.

It was this part that makes me think its the antivirus...

Ive spent more time in the last week trying to verifying ARK than actually playing it

Which makes it sound like they have installed it and then over the course of a week tried to play the game but could not because it kept needing to be verified.

If it was just because of a slow download and then slow install, well there is nothing Valve can do as you say it needs to be verified after it downloads.


But if they have to keep verifying it time after time well then thats an antivirus or system problem.

No like right now, there was a disk write error due to low space because of dlc, I have now finished verifying. I luckily have remembered to make room for it, but now once its done downloading I will be forced to verify once again., Previously its when I downloaded dlc like say Ragnarok and valegero that it verifies each time

[Gwarsbane]

Well there seems to be your problem... low disk space.

Thats not something Valve can solve. Thats only something you can do by either freeing up space or by getting a new much larger hard drive.

Always try to keep at least 10% of the drive space free.

[Primordial Disco]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Well there seems to be your problem... low disk space.

Thats not something Valve can solve. Thats only something you can do by either freeing up space or by getting a new much larger hard drive.

Always try to keep at least 10% of the drive space free.

Got a second hard drive but I need it to finish installing the dlc to be able to move it. I'm out here struggling, but this possess would be sooo much faster without all th verifying.

[Gwarsbane]

If you can't move it because you can't verify it because you don't have enough room, then what you should do is uninstall it and then reinstall it on the new drive.

[Primordial Disco]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

If you can't move it because you can't verify it because you don't have enough room, then what you should do is uninstall it and then reinstall it on the new drive.

Im not reinstalling a 300 gb game if I dont absolutely positively have to. Just stop verifying at every nonsense reason.

[Primordial Disco]

Bro my verifying has gone to 108%