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June 20, 2014 5:01:05 PM

I've recently started having the issue of games on Steam, during the download, being forced into the Update Required (Not Queued) list where they rarely come out and start downloading, if they do it last about 10 seconds or less where it then returns to the list. This has become a huge problem due to not being to download ANY game so Steam is pretty much useless. I've also noticed that some installers I download usually are corrupt and do not work the first time I install it so I have to install it for the second time for it to actually work.

If I try to click 'Play' to download the game in the Download list then it stops after a few seconds then shows the error 'An error occurred while updating Team Fortress 2 () (Image will be below) then it returns to the previous state and waits a bit to attempt to download again.

It is only recently this has started happening as before about the start of this month games would download fine. I have tried pretty much every solution. multiple uninstall and reinstalls (I have tried to Revo Uninstaller but I get error 'Running the applications uninstaller failed! Possible invalid uninstall command!' which means it did not uninstall at all.

Something that did make me wonder was that this started happening after I changed the case for my custom PC but I do not see how that could affect the download of a game.

I have uninstalled all kinds of programmes that could potentially interfere with Steam but nothing has solved the issue. I contacted Steam support and ran an 'MSINFO32' report for them but they came back saying that the issue was that the 'Disk was too busy' which I am certain it is not as I ran the download after turning off everything at start up besides steam so it was just that alone attempting to do anything on the computer and it just did the same thing.

Another issue which I have had ever since I first got the computer was that the images for the Steam programme are messed up, I am still not sure why this happens.

Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated as I have no idea what else to do now.

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June 20, 2014 5:36:40 PM

hmm, not saying steam is always right but they are not exactly noob either.

go into your task manager and check out your disk usage.
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June 20, 2014 5:43:30 PM

iron8orn said:
hmm, not saying steam is always right but they are not exactly noob either.

go into your task manager and check out your disk usage.


I opened up Resource monitor to check out the disk usage but I have no idea what any of this means, sorry
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June 20, 2014 8:51:13 PM

something is not properly using your system resources..

it could be mail ware or a virus and even sometimes windows update can cause issues.

get the free version of this and run it https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/

also run a virus scan and if nothing shows take screen shots of your cpu, disk and memory info in the resource monitor.

honestly... sometimes it is best to just format the your drive and reinstall windows so the choice is yours.
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June 21, 2014 4:23:19 AM

iron8orn said:
something is not properly using your system resources..

it could be mail ware or a virus and even sometimes windows update can cause issues.

get the free version of this and run it https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/

also run a virus scan and if nothing shows take screen shots of your cpu, disk and memory info in the resource monitor.

honestly... sometimes it is best to just format the your drive and reinstall windows so the choice is yours.


I tried both of those things in the past and it found nothing that affected it.

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I was thinking of formatting the HDD but I wasn't sure if it was worth it all but if it comes to it then it may be the best option
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