Content Write Error - Cannot download PTS

MLGProPlayer

dustin_ESO4 wrote: »

Actually, I'm seeing a huge increase in speed right now.

@ZOS
I'm also seeing DNS return one IP instead of two for the PTS patcher. DNS is google's public, so something may have been cached as the TTL was 24h. For a CDN on a virtual environment such as Akamai's CDN, I'd suggest lowering the TTL to something like 6 hours since you guys are probably just running a PTR to Akamai's DNS name and it was resolving both.

My speed was fine now too (download completed in about 30 minutes), but I still got the content write error (trying to repair now to see if it fixes anything). Looking forward to seeing if it works for you.

MLGProPlayer

Repair did nothing. Still getting content write error. That was the third time I tried downloading the file.

I have a 1 TB SSD with over 500 GB of space left. I've participated in most past PTS cycles, including Dragon Bones. Never had this issue.

I found another thread from a few years ago where people were reporting this issue. It seems ZOS needed to fix things with a patch.

And another thread here, with the same outcome (ZOS needing to fix via patch).

So with that said, paging @ZOS_GinaBruno

dustin_ESO4

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

My speed was fine now too (download completed in about 30 minutes), but I still got the content write error (trying to repair now to see if it fixes anything). Looking forward to seeing if it works for you.

I've hit the content write error at 3.4GB left twice now. I can't do anything other than restart the download entirely. Here's to 3 nearly complete downloads in an hour... maybe I should call it quits instead of wasting all of these SSD writes for something that's obviously broken.

MLGProPlayer

dustin_ESO4 wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

My speed was fine now too (download completed in about 30 minutes), but I still got the content write error (trying to repair now to see if it fixes anything). Looking forward to seeing if it works for you.

I've hit the content write error at 3.4GB left twice now. I can't do anything other than restart the download entirely. Here's to 3 nearly complete downloads in an hour... maybe I should call it quits instead of wasting all of these SSD writes for something that's obviously broken.

3 downloads for me as well, all ending in content write error at 2-3 GB left. I'm done for tonight. It's obviously an issue on ZOS' end.

I found these 2 threads from 2016 with the same issue:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2926854/#Comment_2926854

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2926099/#Comment_2926099

ZOS needed to release a patch to fix both times.

dustin_ESO4

So, a bit more information.

The patch is broken up into a multi part zip file. They're downloaded in order.

I'm able to get full parts of everything up to Z30. The download went down to 2.6ish GB left, and then reverted back to 4.4GB.

I'm assuming that Z30 is failing a checksum validation.

AlienatedGoat

Yup, I'm getting a content write fail at 3GB left. 300GB of space left on the drive.

Gythral

Content Write Failure @24%
after almost 12hrs of dial-up era download speeds

& then BT has a hic-up and my internet is out every 5 mins for the last 20

Not sure that this is ZOS CDN or BT (UK Monopoly supplier )

MLGProPlayer

Gythral wrote: »

Content Write Failure @24%
after almost 12hrs of dial-up era download speeds

& then BT has a hic-up and my internet is out every 5 mins for the last 20

Not sure that this is ZOS CDN or BT (UK Monopoly supplier )

I would imagine it's ZOS CDN since I'm having the same issue in NA.

Gythral

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Gythral wrote: »

Content Write Failure @24%
after almost 12hrs of dial-up era download speeds

& then BT has a hic-up and my internet is out every 5 mins for the last 20

Not sure that this is ZOS CDN or BT (UK Monopoly supplier )

I would imagine it's ZOS CDN since I'm having the same issue in NA.

Just does not help when 2 seperate issues occur about the same time, but given that ZOS' CDN has always made dial-up look good, I'm guessing that is the cause...

Quantum_Knight

I've been getting the same error. It went to 24%, gave me the Content Write Error, then started reverting the download, or so it seemed. Went from 24500ish GB left, back to 25, 26, 27, etc. I stopped the download and restarted and walked away, then looked at it after after a while...12%. Looking good. About an hour later, I was at 9%. At this point. I give up for now. Installing the PTS from scratch, if that makes a difference.

MLGProPlayer

Quantum_Knight wrote: »

I've been getting the same error. It went to 24%, gave me the Content Write Error, then started reverting the download, or so it seemed. Went from 24500ish GB left, back to 25, 26, 27, etc. I stopped the download and restarted and walked away, then looked at it after after a while...12%. Looking good. About an hour later, I was at 9%. At this point. I give up for now. Installing the PTS from scratch, if that makes a difference.

I tried installing from scratch and repairing. Neither worked.

Maryanne

I didn't get error message, but after 12 hours download, the progress was 7%... so I gave up.
(I have high-speed internet)

HereKittehKitteh

Left pc on overnight to download. 8 hours later was only 11% downloaded. I have 200mbp internet -.-

Now the speed is fine for me but consistently getting content write error at various points. Tried repairing three times. I give up

BennyButton

RainaLionheart wrote: »

Left pc on overnight to download. 8 hours later was only 11% downloaded. I have 200mbp internet -.-

Now the speed is fine for me but consistently getting content write error at various points. Tried repairing three times. I give up

Literally the same thing happened to me

a_salty_pirate

Getting the same content write error at 24%
Tried several supposed fixes to no avail.
Trying a complete restart of the download now

AJTC5000

Yep, left mine overnight (about 11 hours) and only did about 12%. Got the content write error at 24%. Trying to repair now to see if anything changes.

@ZOS_GinaBruno

HereKittehKitteh

Update: "Sucessfully" repaired without any errors. Crashes when trying to start. Another repair later, and another content write error

Gythral

past 25% now on this attempt...

MLGProPlayer

Gythral wrote: »

past 25% now on this attempt...

After repairing I was able to get to 92% or so, but the remaining file size was the same (2.6 GB) when I got the error. It seems the launcher doesn't report the proper download percentage since I had the same file size remaining when it failed at ~24%. At least that was my experience. Maybe yours will be different.

Gythral

I have yet to see a repair option...

MLGProPlayer

Gythral wrote: »

I have yet to see a repair option...

You have to click the little gear that says "game options" and select repair.

It didn't do anything for me (just showed the proper percentages, but still got the error). It's sonething else you can try if it fails again though.

Ajaxcat

Horrible download. Beta will probably be over by the time it completes. Keeps rolling back to around 12 %. Even when downloading I get about 3MB/s and various errors.

I'm on a fiber 75/75 network uncapped with hardwired gigabit network.

zombi3h3art

keep getting 'Content write error' @ZOS_GinaBruno

eso encountered a fatal error. (Error 12)
Description: Client Fatal Error
====================================================================

[reporter]
version = 0.01


[extra]
ProductName = eso
Version = eso.rc.4.0.0.1589737
branch = rc
client.executablebits = 64
client.mode = startup
client.renderertype = D3D11
client.session_start_timestamp = 2018-04-17T12:39:41.620-05:00
client.timestamp = 2018-04-17T12:39:41.784-05:00 -frme 0-
computer.name = DESKTOP-7PPDH1J
computer.user = Owner
cpu.arch = 9
cpu.count = 4
cpu.level = 6
cpu.type = 8664
exe.buildnum = 1589737
exe.opt = release
exe.reltype = public
exe.type = client
fe.code = 12
fe.descrip = Client Fatal Error
gfx.description = 23.21.13.9135
gfx.deviceid = 5121.694696002.161
gfx.driver = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
gfx.vendorid = 4318
mem.system_physical = 16317
os.osbits = 64
os.platform = windows
os.version = 10.0.16299.
ptime = 240
reportfield.ver = 3
version.major = 4
version.patch = 0
version.subpatch = 0

Ajaxcat

dustin_ESO4 wrote: »

So, a bit more information.

The patch is broken up into a multi part zip file. They're downloaded in order.

I'm able to get full parts of everything up to Z30. The download went down to 2.6ish GB left, and then reverted back to 4.4GB.

I'm assuming that Z30 is failing a checksum validation.

I see a partial for z30 as well as 31 & 32 31 and 32 happened last night 30 happened this morning

Gythral

@ZOS_GinaBruno - any info on this issue?

Not much point in retrying this after a day and 6 attempts, now

aaisoaho

I got 3 times Error 210 (?) when trying to update PTS trough the launcher. The fix that worked for me: I downloaded patch manifest from ZOS's website and ran the launcher as system adminstrator.

EDIT: https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22414/~/what-do-i-do-if-i-get-error-210-patchmanifesterror_downloadfail-when-trying I DLed the file from this site.

Aebaradath

I daresay ESO has one of the worst launchers I've had to deal with.

They should've fixed this back in 2016.

Ajaxcat

Gythral wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno - any info on this issue?

Not much point in retrying this after a day and 6 attempts, now

So for me what I did is cancel repair try fail, cancel repair - then it looked like 32 was the actual problem so I deleted the zip and the partial, did another repair. Looks like it is trying 32 again. Seems the progress we see is for each individual zip because most everything is already on disk but right now it says 6% (I assume of z32).

Pretty funky stuff - this is my first time with the PTS so I may sound like a loon to vets.

NewBlacksmurf

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

I stopped last night....restarted not to long ago and IT DOES start over at 0% but it first runs the verification of files.

I'm now at 23% and only 13.68 MB/s on a wired Google Fiber 1 gig connection so its better than yesterday which hit a max of 2 to 5 MB/s before stopping

Google Fiber Speed test results:
Ping 4.9 ms
Download 829 Mbps
Upload 896 Mbps

Since the post above 20 mins ago I've gone from 13.68 MB/s down to 200 KB/s - 0/0 KB/s @ZOS_GinaBruno stuck at 24%

NewBlacksmurf

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

I stopped last night....restarted not to long ago and IT DOES start over at 0% but it first runs the verification of files.

I'm now at 23% and only 13.68 MB/s on a wired Google Fiber 1 gig connection so its better than yesterday which hit a max of 2 to 5 MB/s before stopping

Google Fiber Speed test results:
Ping 4.9 ms
Download 829 Mbps
Upload 896 Mbps

Since the post above 20 mins ago I've gone from 13.68 MB/s down to 200 KB/s - 0/0 KB/s @ZOS_GinaBruno stuck at 24%

ANd its now started over form 0% on its own with no errors....it never went past 24%