Steam game downloads not starting correctly

[Dorkenstein]

For some reason when I go to install Half Life 2 and Ep 1 and 2, the download always starts around 74%. I've uninstalled and re-installed steam, deleted cache, blob files etc. and it keeps happening. I can only think of one reason this might happen, and that's because I have TF2 installed, but I can't be sure. Anyone else have this problem? Thanks.

 

[zerocool84]

Have you just let it finish trying to download? I've had that happen before but things have downloaded fine.

 

[Red Storm]

Were you only having this problem just now? The Steam servers are currently down.

Edit: Oh wait, I thought you said you had trouble with the downloads starting/finishing. Fox5 is right (below).

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: Dorkenstein
For some reason when I go to install Half Life 2 and Ep 1 and 2, the download always starts around 74%. I've uninstalled and re-installed steam, deleted cache, blob files etc. and it keeps happening. I can only think of one reason this might happen, and that's because I have TF2 installed, but I can't be sure. Anyone else have this problem? Thanks.

That's correct. All the Valve games share assets, so if you have anyone of them installed, you have the majority of any other installed.

 

[Dorkenstein]

I let it finish, and now when I try to run the game, it takes an age before it finally decides to do something. Which in this case is to start updating, and then usually steam stops responding. I probably shouldn't have copied my former steamapps folder back in, but that's the recommended method by the valve wiki for keeping/moving your steam install.

 

[Dorkenstein]

Okay, I got past that hurdle, but now Half Life 2 stops responding on launch. I've never had this much trouble with steam ever.

 

[Fox5]

Have steam validate your game files. It's an option if you right click on the games.

 

[JTsyo]

Also under the games' properties there's an option to defrag. That might help with the speed since you have files that were copied at different times.

 

[Dorkenstein]

Thanks. I've defragged, checked integrity etc. and it still does it. I've posted on the steam forums but no reply yet. Thanks for the advice here.