Steam stuck in "Downloading content" when launching the game after it's crash.

[Cherser-s]

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When I crash from the game during map loading, steam doesn't allow to launch the game immediately and starts "Downloading content', it works fine if crashed from casual, but when I crash from competitive matchmaking, the client just hangs on "Downloading content 0%" for several minutes, until I get temporarily banned from matchmaking, and then proceeds to verify the game content as in previous case.

For competitive I only crashed when loading de_inferno map 2 times.

[Cherser-s]

Great, just received a 24 hour ban. The "Downloading content" """task""" is only starting to progress forward after the player is kicked from the game completely (resulting in a ban). It looks like this issue appeared recently, around two or three days ago, since there are no earlier mentions of it in the discussions section.

[DeRp-DaWg]

Just left the game to restart and encountered the same bug. Also resulted in a loss of 1000 mmr after the match had concluded.

[AntonioBriPerez]

Happened this in WIndows, right click on the Game Properties > DlC, uncheck Counter-Strike 2 Workshop Tools if your problem comes from the game

[Cherser-s]

Content being marked corrupt.  bMissingFilesOnly = false, pFile specified as '~/steamlibrary/steamapps/common/counter-strike global offensive/game/csgo/pak01.vpk', reason: 'NULL'

Thx for -1000MMR ...

This happens randomly but usually it happened with de_inferno.vpk file. And for some reason workshop tools got magically enabled on their own, despite I disabled it earlier.

[artav4]

I have the same, just happened now on Vertigo. A .vpk file was apparently not proper for the game and I once again got a penalty. Not 'unplayable' but very unfair for something where there is apparently no solution. However, I do not have workshop tools enabled in the DLC tab.

[Cherser-s]

@artav4 actually to avoid getting banned you can create a second account and perform integrity checks there as a temporary solution

Apparently the integrity check in the game itself is bugged, as:

1. it happens randomly, so you can load the same map successfully within the first attempt, and it will crash next time
2. I don't have any issues regarding integrity of data on SSD for other games stored on the same device, only happens in this very game.

[ianwijma]

Just got this error, Cheers @Cherser-s! your suggestion fixed it for me.. Though not ideal It's a good work around :D

[Cherser-s]

I solved it by downclocking my RAM, seems like sometimes it corrupted the memory under higher frequencies, but it didn't cause any issue in-game aside from the game crashing during internal integrity checks. Things like that didn't ever happen in older source 1 games.