Arma 3 - writing error disk

[Nick Roosen]

I had to redownload my arma because there was something weird with battleye. When it's downloading it stop and an error pops up from steam saying : writing error disk

 

[Vladic Ka]

Disk full?

 

[Nick Roosen]

765 GB free space so i don't think so, i already deleted arma again and redownload didn't work, delete steam and downloading steam and arma , didn't work

 

[Zeito]

Disk permissions perhaps stopping you from writing to the disk?

 

[Nick Roosen]

But if it's stop letting me writing on the disk, why does the download stop half way and not in the start?

 

[Samatlewis]

Have you partitioned the drive/ do you have a different drive you could install it on?

@Zeito don't slack here!

 

 

[Nick Roosen]

I only have 1 drive in my PC and don't have another one :s

 

[Nick Roosen]

I think i fixed it, DAMN i'm so happy, was busy on it for around 5 HOURS

 

[lionel]

@CantHandleMySwag

well spread the tech love, what did you do to fix it, if somebody else searches for the issue they then have a solution that they can try.

 

[Nick Roosen]

Deleted steam and redownloaded it on a diffrent partition(D than redownload arma 3 and it worked

 

[lionel]

suggest you run a dskchk

 

[Doohicky]

suggest you run a dskchk

nah...

his HDD was partitioned (likely OS and "Free space")... He probably had Steam installed on C: and didn't change it to install it's payloads on D:...

C: filled... D: was lonely...   chkdsk (never seen it used as dskchk ;D) would be a waste of time...

**Glances over to the other screen...** 51% complete stage 5 of 5.... Chkdsk progress over the last hour: 1%....  Fuck my life.   Arma is telling me I need a 3.6GB update before I can play... don't see any patches since the last time I played... something's fucky :'(.    Been trying to get all day.  There's a special place in hell reserved for the executives that have stifled broadband growth in the name of profit.

 

[lionel]

its always worth doing a diskcheck when errors occour lol, I would always suggest keeping backups when possible as well.

chkdsk, my only defence is alcohol, thank fuck for spellcheck