2026-11-01 22:19 UTC
Replies (6)
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@who@feddit.org 2026-11-01 23:31
How did you arrive at that count?
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@chillxjr@lemmy.world 2026-11-01 22:27
I mean, what more do you want from the error? Time? Location? Directory that failed the write? Sector count? It’s pretty straightforward. Every error steam has given me was easily figured out in the logs. Just like every program.
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@ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2026-11-01 23:12
Over 6300 pages when you search for “woke”. And talk on the Steam forums using that word has made the forums unusable. Also talk about Steam charts for games where it doesn’t matter, but I’d blame live service developers for that more than Valve.
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@hperrin@lemmy.ca 2026-11-02 04:04
How is “disk write error” not a meaningful message? It means there was an error writing data to the disk.
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@atkdef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-11-02 04:04
One of the “disk write error” I encountered, is the absence of symbolic link in a file system. I pluged a used TF card (formatted as exFAT) into my Steam Deck. It works most of the time, but one day I installed a game packed by AppImage, and Steam reported “disk write error”. Turned out exFAT doesn’t support symbolic links, and AppImage uses symbolic links to resolve DLL dependencies.
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@BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 2026-11-02 03:50
Disk Write Error is very much more likely to be a Windows (+/- Linux) error rather than a Steam error. If Steam can’t write to the disk for any reason, all it can say is there is a disk write error. It’s unlikely to know whether that’s due to the hard-drive failing or the hard drive going offline for some reason or even just a permissions error. I’m not surprised there are 2000 pages, because hard drive write failures are very common, and as the OS has responsibility for that, then the information available to steam is going to be limited. In fairness Steam and many games do provide quite detailed logs. But they can only really log things they can control. If they get a message from the OS (like “disk write error"), all they can do is log that. It just doesn’t necessarily even have the permissions or access to that level of the OS to provide the “why”, just that essentially “computer said no”.