download speed!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[Duck Norris]

why is it i can download escape from tarkov in less than 20 min but if i download a game on steam thats the same size it takes me hours??????? stop throttling my download speed i have it set to no limit so can someone explain this to me?

[breadman]

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[Mad Scientist]

They don't throttle downloads, but anyone between you and your ISP can. However, Steam downloads are compressed/encrypted, and may take longer to download if the cpu isn't good at those tasks.

[Satoru]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1082209554

Steam can obliterate 1gbps connectsion

Your downloads are limited by

1) your cpu
2) your disk
3) your anti-virus
4) your ISP

Pick one

[crunchyfrog]

Steam does no throttle downloads but it does work differently and people get that round their necks.

Steam downloads games both encrypted and compressed. So it'll download a chunk, then stop downloading, while it sorts and unpacks the data before writing it to it's final destination on your drive. Then it starts up again with the next chunk and so on.

For this very reason, it ain't your net connection that sets the speed necessarily. It's your RAM, CPU, I/O, hard drive and more as ALL of them are working at unplacking and sorting the data.

Here's what you do - find out what's giving you issues.

You can go to the downloads page and look at the graph. You'll note where the net connection is working and when your disk is working. Also open your Windows Task Manager, and watch your system resources.

Hopefully you'll see one or more things are bottlenecking. So if it's something like RAM, close some processes or programs. Otherwise get some new parts?