Problem: Game crashes randomly(mostly after you die as every screenshot i found in the forum is from dead players) and indicates a file gets corrupted mostly "...\game\citadel\pak01.vpk"
Sure no problem lets just try to repair game or relaunch:
Steam does not respond after you try to relaunch game even after 5 mins, at this point i force close the process with task manager and reopen steam and try to repair which then takes alot of time, in some cases i resorted to deleting the file and it is faster to reaquire it then having to scan and repair, this however has not fixed anything and the game crashes constantly.
-Due to all posts saying it was due to ram or actual hardrive/storage solutions being faulty i made sure to run multiple stress tests this morning, everything ran smoothly and no crashes ever, checked crystal mark just in case all 3 of the ssds i used worked fine and are not damaged whatsoever, game crashed after third game and got banned for an hour
Research indicates this has been happening for months atleast since end of June:
-https://www.reddit.com/r/DeadlockTheGame/comments/1exzuwx/corrupted_file_citadelpak01vpk_crashes_game/
-https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/content-file-f-game-citadel-pak01-vpk-is-corrupt.11389/
-https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/mid-game-crash-corrupted-file.12488/
-https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/pak01-vpk-corrupt-file.18676/
-https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/client-crashes-vpk-corrupted.18919/
-https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/content-file-f-game-citadel-pak01-vpk-is-corrupt.11389/
and on discord people ask for help with no real solutions confirmed:
Solutions attempted as found in other posts:
-Repair game Via Steam r/ Obviously first thing that was done
- Reinstall game r/ Second solution attempted
-Moved game to a different drive /r Nothing changed game still randomly corrupts
- Lower your ram speed r/ Disabled XMP and have ram at default speed 2667MHz hence not related to ram speed
-Disable any overclocks r/ Did that too(went as far as diabling the autoclock manager in bios) did not help, and game now runs like shit because virtually any new cpu has auto overclocking
-Changed Render API- r/ Crashes in both DX 11 and Vulkan regardless of the render API
-No undervolting or any funny buiseness going on with gpu /r found a post saying this could affect it(pure nonsense as you cant corrupt a file from this but w/e)
PC specs:
The reddit post has an intel i7 so am taking cpu incompatibility out all toguether, same for gpu as others have had this issue with other graphics cards, and Ram frequency seems to vary on all the different posts mine being the lowest and still experiencing the issue
Because it takes atleast 5 minutes to even repair the game as steam takes a massive dump i have started to get banned for "leaving the game" so am here requesting help
Sure no problem lets just try to repair game or relaunch:
Steam does not respond after you try to relaunch game even after 5 mins, at this point i force close the process with task manager and reopen steam and try to repair which then takes alot of time, in some cases i resorted to deleting the file and it is faster to reaquire it then having to scan and repair, this however has not fixed anything and the game crashes constantly.
-Due to all posts saying it was due to ram or actual hardrive/storage solutions being faulty i made sure to run multiple stress tests this morning, everything ran smoothly and no crashes ever, checked crystal mark just in case all 3 of the ssds i used worked fine and are not damaged whatsoever, game crashed after third game and got banned for an hour
Research indicates this has been happening for months atleast since end of June:
-https://www.reddit.com/r/DeadlockTheGame/comments/1exzuwx/corrupted_file_citadelpak01vpk_crashes_game/
-https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/content-file-f-game-citadel-pak01-vpk-is-corrupt.11389/
-https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/mid-game-crash-corrupted-file.12488/
-https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/pak01-vpk-corrupt-file.18676/
-https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/client-crashes-vpk-corrupted.18919/
-https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/content-file-f-game-citadel-pak01-vpk-is-corrupt.11389/
and on discord people ask for help with no real solutions confirmed:
Solutions attempted as found in other posts:
-Repair game Via Steam r/ Obviously first thing that was done
- Reinstall game r/ Second solution attempted
-Moved game to a different drive /r Nothing changed game still randomly corrupts
- Lower your ram speed r/ Disabled XMP and have ram at default speed 2667MHz hence not related to ram speed
-Disable any overclocks r/ Did that too(went as far as diabling the autoclock manager in bios) did not help, and game now runs like shit because virtually any new cpu has auto overclocking
-Changed Render API- r/ Crashes in both DX 11 and Vulkan regardless of the render API
-No undervolting or any funny buiseness going on with gpu /r found a post saying this could affect it(pure nonsense as you cant corrupt a file from this but w/e)
PC specs:
The reddit post has an intel i7 so am taking cpu incompatibility out all toguether, same for gpu as others have had this issue with other graphics cards, and Ram frequency seems to vary on all the different posts mine being the lowest and still experiencing the issue
Because it takes atleast 5 minutes to even repair the game as steam takes a massive dump i have started to get banned for "leaving the game" so am here requesting help
