Game keeps crashing with pak01.vpk is corrupt

[owenhamburger]

Have been running into the "\common\deadlock\game\citadel\pak01.vpk is corrupt. Verify integrity of game files." so frequently that I have been put in low priority queue and banned from playing for a while. Is there any way to check my logs and see that the game was in fact crashing and I was not maliciously leaving the game? Also I would provide logs in order to help fix this issue if possible. I have tried validating my cache on steam but run into the same error regardless.

I have just reviewed: https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/pak01-vpk-corruption-workaround.67321/ and will attempt this as a workaround when I am unbanned but I'd love to be taken out of low priority as this was a game issue and not a user issue.

Let me know if there are any logs you'd like to see.

 

[An Unoriginal Name]

Hi, I made a post about this the other day since I see this issue crop up somewhat infrequently. Check it out and let us know what you find out.

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Post in thread 'Unfair ban due to pak error bug'

Jul 24, 2025

The only conclusive solution I have ever found on this issue in my research is to reduce the speed your system's RAM is running at (do you overclock? Is your system factory overclocked? Do you have an active XMP/EXPO profile in use in the BIOS/UEFI?), or replacing RAM modules that turned out to be faulty despite stability testing. It is not exclusive to Deadlock.

• An Unoriginal Name