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An Error Occurred While Updating Steam Games: 6 Fixes to Use
Get Steam update running in minutes with our solutions
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Updated onNovember 6, 2023
updated onNovember 6, 2023
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Steam offers automatic updates for the installed games. However, you may sometimes encounter an error while installing or updating a game, and Steam will display the following message:An error occurs while updating [game title].
Even though there are a few variations to this exact error, the underlying message is the same: you will not be able to run the game. So, let’s find out how to fix things when an error occurs while updating Steam games.
Why is Steam failing to update?
Here are some of the reasons you may encounter the error:
Some of the games affected by the error are:
How can I fix the error while updating on Steam?
Before we move to the slightly complex solutions, let’s first try a few quick tricks:
If none of these did the trick, try the solutions listed next.
1. Terminate related processes
That’s it! The easiest way to fix issues updating a game in Steam is to terminate the game itself and any related Windows process.
2. Quit Steam
3. Clear the Download Cache
Now, check whether theAn error occurred while updating invalid platformmessage in Steam disappears. If not, head to the next method.
4. Change the download Region
In some cases, you get theAn error occurred while updatingmessage in Steam, when there are issues with the download region. The one currently selected could be down or overloaded, and changing it should do the trick.
5. Repair the library
In case you are getting theAn error occurred while updating (disk write error)message in Steam, it could be a problem with the library, and repairing it would work for most. Also, verify the drive storing Steam files doesn’t haveWrite Protectionenabled.
6. Verify the integrity of game files
If nothing worked till now, you might want to check our guide onSteam disk write errorfor more solutions.
That’s all there is to the problem! By now, you should have gotten things up and running, and theAn error occurred while updatingmessage in Steam shouldn’t appear anymore.
If you have any questions or want to share another solution, please comment in the section below.
Tashreef Shareef
Tashreef Shareef is a software developer turned tech writer. He discovered his interest in technology after reading a tech magazine accidentally. Now he writes about everything tech from Windows to iOS and streaming services to IoT at WindowsReport.
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