Why only Conan Exiles slow downloading?

[Ankido]

Every game updates and downloads fast. There is a small file being downloaded right now and it's taken so far an hour. Why is it only Conan that takes forever to update?

[PapiCrow]

I have the same issue, it keeps stopping at 75.4 mb of a 96 mb download. I tried restarting Steam, but I keep getting the same result.

[eram]

used to have this issue until i upgraded to a very fast m.2 hard drive. now it unpacks that stupid large file in seconds.

the update may only be 90 something mb but its unpacking a huge file.

[PapiCrow]

Originally posted by PapiCrow:

I have the same issue, it keeps stopping at 75.4 mb of a 96 mb download. I tried restarting Steam, but I keep getting the same result.

[Ankido]

Why are messages not showing up? 3 comments in the last hour and all i see is

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[Mister Sanity Claus]

Sorry for necro:ing, but I have this kind of problem too and this seems to be the most recent post dealing with slow downloads. I decided to take the game up again, but I had uninstalled it. So I start up the download and... Start-stop-start-stop-start-stop...

For some reason, Conan Exiles downloads really, really slowly. On every other game I download, I get upwards of 300 Mbps (I have a 500 Mbps connection, so it's definitely acceptable), but Conan gets stuck at a maximum of about 100 Mbps, and keeps dropping to 0 Mbps over and over. I have no problems whatsoever with games bigger than this (no dropping to 0 Mbps even in games pushing 200 GB downloads).

It's only Conan, and I do know I've had this problem before. I switched to another game, just to try it out, and I got a steady 250 Mbps download. Back to Conan, and it goes start-stop-start-stop-start-stop, and maxes out at about 100-150, with the typical load chunk hitting about 50-60.

I'm getting estimations of EIGHT HOURS download time, on a 60 GB download. There is something seriously wrong here.

[Estevan Valladares]

If you were doing 300 or so Mbps it would take obviously 45 minutes to 1h tops to download it. That is true.

However, there are two things:
- The specific time it is downloading and the specific time it is installing, which makes up for the times it gets back to 0mbps.
- The files are served by steam, but the process of installations varies from game to game. Some games are ready to install after they download, some make installations while downloading, others do not require installation and run directly from the downloaded files.

So the "other games dont have the same problem" thing kinda a truism. Obviously some stuff is specific to what game you are talking about.

Games with heavy graphical assets and little to no code, running on the generic runtimes, they download faster because they dont need to install stuff and then install another stuff, and so on.

Updates made while installing games also make them install slower.

Several things can influence the speed of download.
Including how much you download compacted or how much downloaded content does not actually remain as part of the game.

[Mister Sanity Claus]

Originally posted by Estevan Valladares:

If you were doing 300 or so Mbps it would take obviously 45 minutes to 1h tops to download it. That is true.

However, there are two things:
- The specific time it is downloading and the specific time it is installing, which makes up for the times it gets back to 0mbps.
- The files are served by steam, but the process of installations varies from game to game. Some games are ready to install after they download, some make installations while downloading, others do not require installation and run directly from the downloaded files.

So the "other games dont have the same problem" thing kinda a truism. Obviously some stuff is specific to what game you are talking about.

Games with heavy graphical assets and little to no code, running on the generic runtimes, they download faster because they dont need to install stuff and then install another stuff, and so on.

Updates made while installing games also make them install slower.

Several things can influence the speed of download.
Including how much you download compacted or how much downloaded content does not actually remain as part of the game.

See, I just noticed something about the download for Conan - about ten minutes ago:
When I have an active connection on something else, like a live stream or something, the download doesn't start and stop all the time, but stays active. If I stop having an active connection on something else, the Steam download reverts to starting and stopping.
It's still not quick (about 150 Mbps), but it keeps downloading the whole time.

And again, this doesn't happen with any other game. Just Conan.

If you can explain that one, I'll be very interested to hear it; because I'm drawing a complete blank...🤯😁

[Estevan Valladares]

Your network will make assumptions about priorities of network based on things you set or dont. You can have set something to assume priority, or not, or got a program to reserve itself Bandwidth or not, and influences which programs can use how much of band.
To consider a connection active, the computer needs a signal called "keep alive" among other things, which is not present in "data" band, but in the "connection layer", and if that signal delays to come, the computer consider the connection dead.

It is not surprising that a "mbps" connection will have problems keeping a download and other things using the connection. While it might seem "much", you have to remember that a lot of things use WAY more than that.

While the streaming itself for example will use between 3 to 5 mbps, the act of streaming is a direct connection, unlike the browsing for example which is a async connection that might stop and resume in fractions of second. That influences the whole control stuff and the interval allowed for the keep alive signal.

A lot might influence how the connection is treated, and Steam itself only gets the metrics and act accordingly.

As to "only game", it does not mean much if you dont say specific games.
I am sure you wont be downloading Horizon Zero or Baldur's Gate 3 any faster by what you are saying, in the same circumstances.

[Mister Sanity Claus]

Originally posted by Estevan Valladares:

As to "only game", it does not mean much if you dont say specific games.
I am sure you wont be downloading Horizon Zero or Baldur's Gate 3 any faster by what you are saying, in the same circumstances.

I definitely did download BG3 faster than Conan (higher download speed, that is). Same with RDR2.
When I downloaded those, the download didn't keep dropping to 0, for instance.

Again: Conan Exiles is the only game I have ever had this experience with.