Corrupt Update Files FIX w/ Guide

This guide is intended to fix the issue some players may have when updating/installing a game that gives you the error "Corrupt Update Files". There may be other fixes that people know about that worked for them and if so i encourage you to share your method on this guide.

I would like to point out that this guide was written as the steps involved helped me to correct this issue for myself and hopefully for those reading it in future.

Because i have recently had this issue affect me on CSGO, where the game closes itself and returns me to desktop after several minutes, there have been very little guides or help on this subject that actually work and i have had to try many different methods to find a fix. Finally i was able to find a way to correct this issue and it worked.

If you are suffering from this issue when downloading a game, try these steps as this worked for me the 1st time i tried it so i decided to make a guide that hopefully can help others.

STEPS:
1. Uninstall Game (Any game that gives you the error of corrupt update files)

2. Navigate to > View > Settings > Downloads

3. Firstly, Clear Download Cache which is located at the bottom

4. MOST IMPORTANT STEP
Change the Download Region to another location

Because i am from the UK and set it to Manchester, i changed it to US Boston, the difference in download speed wasnt that big of a difference, only 0.1-0.3MB/s which is miniscule, pick a location that is closer and more suitable for you for better speeds.

This step is VERY important since the game file location (UK in this case) where we are downloading the files from wont change and get corrupted everytime, meaning you can reinstall CSGO 10 times (like i did) but still get the error everytime. We have to switch the region to anything besides where yours is currently set.

5. Once changed, Steam should prompt you for a restart

6. Before redownloading the game again, ensure none of the previous files are lurking in folders because we want a fresh install of the game files: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common

Your game location may be different depending on what drive you installed it on.

I deleted the CSGO folder on my drive completely before starting another download but by this point you should have no other files for CSGO when you are in \steamapps\common.

7. Download the game fully (once your download region has been changed ofcourse) and let it download. Once finished, you should no longer see the error "Corrupt Update Files" meaning the download has been successful.

8. Navigate to "Verify Integrity of Game Files"

This will do a final check for any missing files in game. At this point it should be 100% and you will also no longer receieve the "Corrupt Update Files" error that appears when you previously downloaded the game.

9. Change the Download Region back to where it was originally and run the game like normal.


I hope this guide was able to help folks in resovling this issue because i had to go through forums upon forums, reddit and several other sites to find a fix for the problem before i found the one that really worked.

DISCLAIMER*
I am not saying this is the only guide out there that solves this issue, this was created because i didnt see other guides providing a FIX which hopefully i have provided.


My sincerest thanks for reading!

[DrKnowledge89]

"Wait... What?!", gave me the solution after i spent and entire night downloading the games to different drives and all kinds of other shit, thankyou, you absolute godsend

[Kim Jong Clinton]

Worked for me! Thanks fo sharing. I had this issue with Cod Blops 6 and follow these steps exacttly and it worked.

[Hey! it's me... Goku!]

for everyone with an external hard drive who has this ''corrupt uptade files'' issue! : i tried every Fuckn step that was listed on the internet and steam and nothing worked. everytime i scanned my disk for errors it said there was no problems with it but the problem was the external hard drive in the end... maybe some internal failure or something else. then i deinstalled steam and installed it again on the external hard drive and set my C: driver as default. then i tried to install Elden Ring again and Fck me!!! it worked!! i started it and played for 5 mins to check if it would crash or show me any failure massage but since then... it worked! I've had my external for maybe 2-3 years and that just shows that u are in better hands with internal drives! i hope that i could at least help 1 guy with this tip! just try to use another drive for ur games maybe the usual one is fcked... much love! and let me know if this did the trick for u

[DavidBOSS21]

if its the exact same issue as me then there should be nothing wrong with that cache and steam is being stupid

[DavidBOSS21]

YO I FOUND A FIX THAT WORKED FOR ME.
i had to manually go to the game download cache, cut and paste it somewhere else,
uninstall the game, redownload a small bit of it and then pause the download, shutdown steam,
re-paste the cache back into the cache folder, and restart steam.

if this didnt work take that game cache and paste it into the main game folder.

[DavidBOSS21]

scratch that it worked only once now it wont fix it anymore

[DavidBOSS21]

oh wow this actually worked. (i had to make sure that i was on a different download region cause steam is iffy sometimes)
thank you so much!

[W3ST3RN INFID3L]

It still happens far too often on steam. What you were playing last night, you to start the next day and bam... the game crashes, you verify, then 1 file missing, you download and verify again and "Corrupt update files". You can sometimes spend up to an hour doing rinse/repeat until it finally works instead of gaming. I don't get any of this crap with any of the other platforms, its really putting me off buying anything new on Steam.

[FREE PALESTINE 🍉]

i'ts kinda work but i installed on another drive (ssd) so i don't know if this method fix this or not.
have to wait another 3 month on new seaon maybe i tried to install to my old hdd

[Blueberry Yum Yum ˚¬˚]

@thecarmiearmy

Glad it helped!