pak01 vpk error, is there a way to prevent this?

[carlos.rivera0224]

Every now and then ill play the game and ill get this "pak01 vpk error" it tells me to verify game files. And its a 50/50 toss up that verifying these files will work. I tried playing tonight, got into the pregame lobby got this error, tried verifying nothing happened so I restart my PC uninstall and reinstalled only to find out im temporarily banned. Is there a way to fix this?

 

[n8opot8o]

I moved the game from my D:/ drive to my C:/ drive and haven't experienced any of the VPK crashes since doing this. Might not be applicable to you, but... Maybe?

The vpk bug is total BS tho, definitely needs to be fixed.

 

[carlos.rivera0224]

I moved the game from my D:/ drive to my C:/ drive and haven't experienced any of the VPK crashes since doing this. Might not be applicable to you, but... Maybe?

The vpk bug is total BS tho, definitely needs to be fixed.

I'll try this out. I got the error 2 nights in a row and have been put in low priority matchmaking for like 10 games. It takes forever to queue and then when I finally get in it's the laggiest matches ever and it's the most toxic people I've played with too.
According to a redditor the .vpk file was a way to import custom maps into CS2 before steam workshop was a thing but there ain't a fix yet.

 

[gamadar]

Every now and then ill play the game and ill get this "pak01 vpk error" it tells me to verify game files. And its a 50/50 toss up that verifying these files will work. I tried playing tonight, got into the pregame lobby got this error, tried verifying nothing happened so I restart my PC uninstall and reinstalled only to find out im temporarily banned. Is there a way to fix this?

I was getting this error fairly regularly and I did a few things to help alleviate it(I haven't seen it in a few weeks).

1. Moved the game to a separate hard drive.
2. Disabled steam shader cache.
3. Verify files before launching the game.
4. Queue up into a private bot match and make sure the game can get me to lane.

If you encounter this issue again, an idea to quickly remediate it that I haven't been able to test out - maybe try logging out of your steam and logging back in? After a few of us were digging into this issue in another thread, we saw that steam is intentionally blocking updates for a few minutes which means any attempt to verify will stall and not be able to do anything in time to avoid the ban. My theory is logging in and logging out will clear whatever local state is there and hopefully let you verify quicker...

 

[gamadar]

I was getting this error fairly regularly and I did a few things to help alleviate it(I haven't seen it in a few weeks).

1. Moved the game to a separate hard drive.
2. Disabled steam shader cache.
3. Verify files before launching the game.
4. Queue up into a private bot match and make sure the game can get me to lane.

If you encounter this issue again, an idea to quickly remediate it that I haven't been able to test out - maybe try logging out of your steam and logging back in? After a few of us were digging into this issue in another thread, we saw that steam is intentionally blocking updates for a few minutes which means any attempt to verify will stall and not be able to do anything in time to avoid the ban. My theory is logging in and logging out will clear whatever local state is there and hopefully let you verify quicker...

Fwiw, if you want to skip the verify step, you could probably just queue into a bot round really quickly and this should suss out the issue where you crash as soon as the match starts.

 

[carlos.rivera0224]

Fwiw, if you want to skip the verify step, you could probably just queue into a bot round really quickly and this should suss out the issue where you crash as soon as the match starts.

I have switched drives and so far that seems to have help because I havent had it come up. Ive had to slog my way from 10 low priortiy matchmaking WINS, on 160+ ping. The issue didnt always start at the start of the match, it would be random. But I got it like 2 or 3 times in a row.

 

[gamadar]

I have switched drives and so far that seems to have help because I havent had it come up. Ive had to slog my way from 10 low priortiy matchmaking WINS, on 160+ ping. The issue didnt always start at the start of the match, it would be random. But I got it like 2 or 3 times in a row.

My theory is that the crash is happening when a certain asset on the map gets loaded. To try to load everything.. I usually queue up, and try making a path that covers most of the map, i.e.

1. start on the left lane
2. get to lane
3. cut through mid across the map
4. head to the enemy base

 

[n8opot8o]

Happened to me again. Why is this garbage file still corrupting? At least this time it happened after a game ended and didn't happen mid-game.