Extremely Slow Download

[xXFrostTempestVikingXx]

Ive had Ark redownloading since early this morning, over 12 hours. I have 500gb internet and its only downloading at 5mbps. Ive went through all of my settings, the download speed setting has no restrictions. Anyone have any idea why its taking so long?

[william_es]

Yeah, steam has download restrictions itself. Has nothing to do with your connection at all.

There can be other issues with storage space on your system throttling it too. If the place your downloading it to is an actual hard drive (not an ssd), that's a well known issue that can drastically slow it down.

And there's another possible issue. All downloads have to pass through your master steam folder, even if you've installed ark to another drive/folder. If the drive where you have your master steam folder is full, then steam will have massive issue downloading anything. It goes to the master steam folder, then apparently gets movedddddd to the other drive. Why it does this, steam only knows. Make sure you have lots and lots and lots of empty space on the drive where the main steam folder is installed.

[xXFrostTempestVikingXx]

I have a 4tb external hard drive that I use to hold all my steam games cuz my main HD is only like 250gb. So that may be whats causing the slow down then. Thanks!

[Dead Potato]

I'm having the same issue, Will download for 5MB/s for maybe 10 seconds, then stop, then start up, and stop, and it repeats. Every other game will hit 200MB/s. But this game does nothing. Attempted different Steam Download Locations. :(

[el potato 123]

is super slow