If I had a wish for christmas from GabeN or Valve in general, it would be actually meaningful error messages from steam.
If I had two wishes, I would like a community tool to share configs to make games work that require tweaking.
But I’d be very happy if I got better error messages.
How is “disk write error” not a meaningful message? It means there was an error writing data to the disk.
Because there’s no error code attached or any details about what specific error it was, what file it happened on, what mount it happened on, etc…
So what the issue with my car?
Well it doesn’t start up
Not bashing on Steam, to be clear, but this error will not help fix the issue, user actually needs to investigate one of the many reasons this could be.
A meaningful error may be: write failed because files are locked by process xy.
I dont think Windows gives that information to Steam.
Just reboot and try again. It fixes it 90% of the time.
The messages can be improved without modifying the operating system.
What is the software currently attempting invoke/execute? Have that information included with any errors from the OS.
This is a very easy thing for a developer and gives context to the error. The hard part is going through all the code, deciding which operations should have additional messaging and adding god knows how many new lines of code.