Downloading Issues

[[R°] Dork-a-Saurus]

So I just bought the game and went to install it. It's going to take 8 days to install a 14GB game apparently. I have tried restarting steam, restarting my computer, clearing the download cache, and tried several different download server locations. Anyone know what the heck is going on and how to fix it?

[[R°] Dork-a-Saurus]

Should also note, internet speed test results in 600+ Mbps, other games download and install in a reasonable time, it's just this one.

[Gumpo]

I assume you've already confirmed you have at least twice as much storage as its asking for?
(It downloads the game to a temp folder compressed, then extracts it. If there inst enough storage to download the whole thing compressed and decompress it, it has to do it in pieces which greatly slows things down.)

And that you have done a speed test to confirm your download speed is up to the task?

[[R°] Dork-a-Saurus]

Originally posted by Gumpo:

I assume you've already confirmed you have at least twice as much storage as its asking for?
(It downloads the game to a temp folder compressed, then extracts it. If there inst enough storage to download the whole thing compressed and decompress it, it has to do it in pieces which greatly slows things down.)

And that you have done a speed test to confirm your download speed is up to the task?

Yes, I have 500GB free. And yes, speed test already done, see my other post.

[Rhapsody]

Could try installing on a different disk or partition, using different network to download or to try downloading the game on another device in the same network and see if there's any improvement.

[Gumpo]

Originally posted by R° Dork-a-Saurus:

Yes, I have 500GB free. And yes, speed test already done, see my other post.

Was writing that post when your wrote yours, so, didn't see that.

Seem's like you covered all your bases really.

Only thing I can think of then would be anti-virus doing something strange. Which I wouldn't blame on the antivirus if it were the case, since, Civ VII has Denuvo in it, heh.

[Gumpo]

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

Could try installing on a different disk or partition, using different network to download or to try downloading the game on another device in the same network and see if there's any improvement.

A different disk would make sense, so long as its an SSD.

I know steam likes to download the cache to the same place as it is installed to, which by default would be your windows OS partition. Most people just plop everything down on one drive, but since Rhapsody mentioned other partitions, it could be from the cache being on one partition that doesnt have enough storage while you are trying to install it to one that does.

[[R°] Dork-a-Saurus]

Well, the issue seems to have resolved itself, somewhat. It no longer says days, but rather an hour, which is still asininely slow, but I'll put up with that.

In response to y'all's comments: I downloaded a larger game just before this one (paused this one to do so in fact) on the same network and to the same drive partition and it was much faster, went as expected. If it was an issue with my network or this partition, all downloads on this network and to this partition would be effected, which is not the case.

And there is no antivirus to blame, not even MS Defender; Running on Linux, no antivirus to speak of lol

Likely just a hiccup with the host server I guess? Chalk it up to bad timing on my part, probably wouldn't be an issue had I waited until tomorrow.

[[R°] Dork-a-Saurus]

Originally posted by Gumpo:

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

Could try installing on a different disk or partition, using different network to download or to try downloading the game on another device in the same network and see if there's any improvement.

A different disk would make sense, so long as its an SSD.

I know steam likes to download the cache to the same place as it is installed to, which by default would be your windows OS partition. Most people just plop everything down on one drive, but since Rhapsody mentioned other partitions, it could be from the cache being on one partition that doesnt have enough storage while you are trying to install it to one that does.

I cleared the download cache already, didn't solve the issue.

[[R°] Dork-a-Saurus]

Scratch my previous response, went back to being over 8 hours to download. I just cancelled it and requested a refund, it's not worth it.

[Qoojo]

Sometimes steam download locations have speed issues. Switching to different location can help sometimes. Like east location to west.