Apex Legends "Error Reading Pak File: Short Read"

Something similar is happening to me except with a different file. Its a legendary octane skin. I believe that short read means that the file isn't the size it should be. Uninstalling or verifying the integrity of the game files won't work

I tried re-switching to Origin and it was running all the way until I attempted to link my steam profile then I constantly started getting the same error message.

Hey, @Electr0101  @PaubloEscobaro make sure that all drivers for windows are up to date, also worth to reinstall the GPU drivers for your PC.

You can also try to do a clean boot to see if there any programs messing with APEX and turn off any overlay programs for example Discord or Nvidia experience.

Can you add a Dxdiag so we can see what hardware and drivers you have? 

Let me know if this works or not for you. 🙂

/Atic

@EA_Atic 

Heres my Dxdiag Info. Hope this helps. I've factory reset my pc and make sure that I had all my drivers updated before and after the issue and so far no fix yet.

Also have the same issue. have read online that you have to delete a corrupted file. But that file doesn't exist in my apex folder. 

I had the same problem with a file, i followed the file path in the given error and i deleted the file, the weird thing was that the steam integrity check didn't notice that the file was missing but now the game works just fine. The file path was " C:\Users\<YourUsernameHere>\Saved Games/Respawn/Apex/assets/11/store/dl_store_s08_r97_s02e01_legendary_01.rpak "

I also have the same problem, how to fix this? I already follow the steps and it not solve anything.

Delete said file. Literally just read this thread and then decided to delete the file since nothing else worked, and it stopped crashing. If it's a big file then I don't recommend it, but the file that stopped me from playing was only like 300 kb, so I went and did it.