Game stuck in Updating/Validating/Patching loop

[Himouto! End My Life-Chan!]

Downloading an update for NMS, but it keeps on pausing the update, validating the files, continuing the update, validating files over and over again until it gets to the patching phase. Once it gets to the patching phase, it reaches 99% and then keeps getting into a patching/validating loop and not making any progress.

I've restarted steam, restarted my PC, made sure I have enough space on the drive, verified the game cache, cleared the downloads folder in steam, repaired steam library folders, cleared the download cache. Nothing seems to be working.

[MacMarkov]

Same here for Mius Front.

[Himouto! End My Life-Chan!]

Still having this issue. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling another game that had this issue and now it won't reinstall, so I really don't want to do this with NMS. Other games update and install fine.

It may potentially be file size. I've got plenty of space on my drive, however, smaller installs work fine. The other game I tried reinstalling was 32gb. This update is 20gb. I have also reinstalled another game which was 7gb and that one reinstalled fine.

[Himouto! End My Life-Chan!]

Ok, I've just been able to install the update. Here's what I did:

1. Open the folder where steam is installed

2. Open the "logs" folder

3. Open the content_log.txt file

4. Search for "failed". I found a entry that said
"Failed updating depot 275851 while reading chunk "e8603a78c0d8887c8e729037abcb1c99cf28be0f" (Device Corrupt) (Corrupt game files) "F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\GAMEDATA\PCBANKS\NMSARC.TexBiomesSCORCHED.pak"

5. Open the file location listed in your failed entry and delete the listed file.

6. Try updating again.

[OptimusP]

Originally posted by Himouto! End My Life-Chan!:

Ok, I've just been able to install the update. Here's what I did:

1. Open the folder where steam is installed

2. Open the "logs" folder

3. Open the content_log.txt file

4. Search for "failed". I found a entry that said
"Failed updating depot 275851 while reading chunk "e8603a78c0d8887c8e729037abcb1c99cf28be0f" (Device Corrupt) (Corrupt game files) "F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\GAMEDATA\PCBANKS\NMSARC.TexBiomesSCORCHED.pak"

5. Open the file location listed in your failed entry and delete the listed file.

6. Try updating again.

Amazing. This is the ONLY solution I've ever come across to this issue that actually worked.

I've had a few games in my library that I've been unable to update for years due to this problem. I tried absolutely everything others recommended all over the internet, including fully wiping Steam and all my games completely from my PC and starting over from scratch, and all solutions failed. I can't believe I finally found something that worked.

Just wanted to chime in for others having this problem.

[Himouto! End My Life-Chan!]

Originally posted by OptimusP:

Amazing. This is the ONLY solution I've ever come across to this issue that actually worked.

I've had a few games in my library that I've been unable to update for years due to this problem. I tried absolutely everything others recommended all over the internet, including fully wiping Steam and all my games completely from my PC and starting over from scratch, and all solutions failed. I can't believe I finally found something that worked.

Just wanted to chime in for others having this problem.

Glad I could help. I found one website suggesting this and it wasn't easy to find.

[Legend]

I've had this problem with several games and this was the only solution I found that actually worked. Thank you!

[(415!)Fle@B@gL@ne]

My Far Cry 3 does install validate installs missing files and all over again

Other than that I must say not many issues with steam for my 70+ games since 2009

[wiwum]

Originally posted by Himouto! End My Life-Chan!:

Ok, I've just been able to install the update. Here's what I did:

1. Open the folder where steam is installed

2. Open the "logs" folder

3. Open the content_log.txt file

4. Search for "failed". I found a entry that said
"Failed updating depot 275851 while reading chunk "e8603a78c0d8887c8e729037abcb1c99cf28be0f" (Device Corrupt) (Corrupt game files) "F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\GAMEDATA\PCBANKS\NMSARC.TexBiomesSCORCHED.pak"

5. Open the file location listed in your failed entry and delete the listed file.

6. Try updating again.

This worked! Thank you!

[Chamros]

Originally posted by Himouto! End My Life-Chan!:

Ok, I've just been able to install the update. Here's what I did:

1. Open the folder where steam is installed

2. Open the "logs" folder

3. Open the content_log.txt file

4. Search for "failed". I found a entry that said
"Failed updating depot 275851 while reading chunk "e8603a78c0d8887c8e729037abcb1c99cf28be0f" (Device Corrupt) (Corrupt game files) "F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\GAMEDATA\PCBANKS\NMSARC.TexBiomesSCORCHED.pak"

5. Open the file location listed in your failed entry and delete the listed file.

6. Try updating again.

Just wanted to say this worked for me when my civ 6 was stuck! I deleted the one file mentioned, tried again, it got stuck again, checked the log again, turned out there was a second file popping up in the logs. Deleted that one too, and then it worked! A lot more helpful than most guides on google that only say to restart or reinstall :)

[HC]

Originally posted by Himouto! End My Life-Chan!:

Ok, I've just been able to install the update. Here's what I did:

1. Open the folder where steam is installed

2. Open the "logs" folder

3. Open the content_log.txt file

4. Search for "failed". I found a entry that said
"Failed updating depot 275851 while reading chunk "e8603a78c0d8887c8e729037abcb1c99cf28be0f" (Device Corrupt) (Corrupt game files) "F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\GAMEDATA\PCBANKS\NMSARC.TexBiomesSCORCHED.pak"

5. Open the file location listed in your failed entry and delete the listed file.

6. Try updating again.

Thanks this actually worked it was looping for hours

[elocthered]

Thank you for the Tech Help! this worked for me i had a few files that were corrupt. I had a similar issue with a game in the past that would constantly crash and when you would verify the files it would find something to download, repair, then play but randomly crash. The root cause of that was a bad data sector on my adata hard drive. I had to uninstall the game, go to disk management and check the hard drive and it found errors and quarantined the sectors. Reinstalled the game and worked great. I think the root cause of this problem is bad sectors on a hard drive which are corrupting game files. So a complete uninstall should work as well as long as you do a disk check in between

[D 3 I M O S]

Originally posted by Himouto! End My Life-Chan!:

Ok, I've just been able to install the update. Here's what I did:

1. Open the folder where steam is installed

2. Open the "logs" folder

3. Open the content_log.txt file

4. Search for "failed". I found a entry that said
"Failed updating depot 275851 while reading chunk "e8603a78c0d8887c8e729037abcb1c99cf28be0f" (Device Corrupt) (Corrupt game files) "F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\GAMEDATA\PCBANKS\NMSARC.TexBiomesSCORCHED.pak"

5. Open the file location listed in your failed entry and delete the listed file.

6. Try updating again.

I just want to let you know, I've had this issue for the past 2 years with Steam. It's caused me gigantic headaches.. This is the only fix I've found after searching for 2 years that has fixed the issue for me. This should be pinned at the top of the support page because this is a widespread issue for people.. Especially those with multiple systems (laptop + pc with cloud saves).

Thank you for updating the post and letting us know. You're a legend.

[UdderJuice]

Originally posted by Himouto! End My Life-Chan!:

Ok, I've just been able to install the update. Here's what I did:

1. Open the folder where steam is installed

2. Open the "logs" folder

3. Open the content_log.txt file

4. Search for "failed". I found a entry that said
"Failed updating depot 275851 while reading chunk "e8603a78c0d8887c8e729037abcb1c99cf28be0f" (Device Corrupt) (Corrupt game files) "F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\GAMEDATA\PCBANKS\NMSARC.TexBiomesSCORCHED.pak"

5. Open the file location listed in your failed entry and delete the listed file.

6. Try updating again.

Wow. So let me tell you. A few months ago, I was having this issue with a game. As you say, nothing worked. I finally just uninstalled it because it was a game I rarely played anyway. A few days later it started doing it with another game that I actually do play. By the time I was done trying to resolve the issue I had uninstalled Steam (along with a large portion of my game library) and done a fresh install of Windows. Things have been running pretty smooth since then and I mostly game on my Steam Deck now anyway.

Well, just now it started doing it again with yet another game. Somehow, I found this post tonight and this helped me clear the issue and got my game updated. You sir are indeed a legend.

I will just add that if your log file is full of the word "failed" like mine was, you can also search for the name of the specific game you are having an issue with and track down the offending file that way.

Thanks again!

[Ryan]

Originally posted by Himouto! End My Life-Chan!:

Ok, I've just been able to install the update. Here's what I did:

1. Open the folder where steam is installed

2. Open the "logs" folder

3. Open the content_log.txt file

4. Search for "failed". I found a entry that said
"Failed updating depot 275851 while reading chunk "e8603a78c0d8887c8e729037abcb1c99cf28be0f" (Device Corrupt) (Corrupt game files) "F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\GAMEDATA\PCBANKS\NMSARC.TexBiomesSCORCHED.pak"

5. Open the file location listed in your failed entry and delete the listed file.

6. Try updating again.

Holy crap and to think the last few times I reinstalled entire games over this, this issue seems to strike me a lot thank you for giving me this

[freeLancer]

Hey Thanks for posting this solution Himouto! I had the same problem with War Thunder and it kept validating then updating. Tried all the fixes: download cache, fix folder, verify...none worked.

So I looked in the log file, found the "Failed" file (was a german ship) deleted that and restarted and whole patch worked. Thanks again for finding this solution and posting!