No Disk usage

[Beener Schnitzel]

Okay so I got a few games today as alot of things are on sale. One of my SSDs is full so i tried to put the download to a new SSD. The download starts off strong at 5Mb/s, then at the same point over and over it just drops the disk usage to 0 and then stops the download all together. Is anyone else experiencing this? This is the 3rd time ive tried downloading a game just for it to stop.

Is it because Im not downloading where steam is installed? What is even going on? Ive never had issues downloading anything from steam.

[The Giving One]

Please also check everything linked in blue here.

Solving Download and Game Install Issues

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6966-IADH-1503

[Beener Schnitzel]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Please also check everything linked in blue here.

Solving Download and Game Install Issues

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6966-IADH-1503

So i reformatted the SSD in question, and I am just downloading it in the file where steam is downloaded on. Its downloading with no changes to anything in that link. I use norton, and I have never ran into issues. I think Ill just download them into the file im using for steam, and then migrate them as suggested here:

http://www.tomsguide.com/answers/id-1974084/moving-steam-games-ssd.html

I havent had an issue until today. Maybe there was something on that SSD that was causing issues? I mean there were torrented movies on there. *shrugs*

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Beener Schnitzel:

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Please also check everything linked in blue here.

Solving Download and Game Install Issues

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6966-IADH-1503

So i reformatted the SSD in question, and I am just downloading it in the file where steam is downloaded on. Its downloading with no changed to anything in that link. I use norton,

I stopped reading right here.

Norton, as well as child processes of Norton can be toxic for Steam and games.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

More posts about Norton...

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/348292957936793818/?tscn=1476505156#c348293073006152613
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/392183857628513359/#c392184289304621591
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/458607518209700397/?tscn=1453942737#c458607518210063348
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/392184289304843029/?tscn=1458633705#c392184342868920447

[Beener Schnitzel]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Originally posted by Beener Schnitzel:

So i reformatted the SSD in question, and I am just downloading it in the file where steam is downloaded on. Its downloading with no changed to anything in that link. I use norton,

I stopped reading right here.

Norton, as well as child processes of Norton can be toxic for Steam and games.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

More posts about Norton...

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/348292957936793818/?tscn=1476505156#c348293073006152613
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/392183857628513359/#c392184289304621591
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/458607518209700397/?tscn=1453942737#c458607518210063348
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/392184289304843029/?tscn=1458633705#c392184342868920447

Well I have never had issues with it. Ever. I am currently downloading Fallout 4 @ 5MB/s with no issues; Norton is running. I play ESO through steam with Norton on, no issues. I really just think it was the fact that i was trying to download the games on an SSD that doesnt have steam installed, or there was something else on the SSD that was causing the issues.

Ive had this computer for over 6 months now, I built it myself: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/GGWXsY

and never once have i had my disk usage just drop to zero 5 seconds into the download.

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Beener Schnitzel:

Well I have never had issues with it. Ever..

I knew that this would be your reply, as it usually is in cases like this with others as well.

"But I never had a problem with that antivirus before..."
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/9/357288572126129212/?ctp=2#c357288572128593748
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/364040961444986179/#c364040961449364808
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/392184289303449855/?tscn=1458512553#c392184289303484833
http://steamcommunity.com/app/730/discussions/0/364042063114127030/

EDIT..I never said it was the problem here, but to troubleshoot correctly, it must be considered suspect to the problem, including child processes of it and not only the parent program.

"Norton"

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/search/?gidforum=882959061466924237&include_deleted=1&q=%22Norton%22

[Beener Schnitzel]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Originally posted by Beener Schnitzel:

Well I have never had issues with it. Ever..

I knew that this would be your reply, as it usually is in cases like this with others as well.

"But I never had a problem with that antivirus before..."
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/9/357288572126129212/?ctp=2#c357288572128593748
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/364040961444986179/#c364040961449364808
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/392184289303449855/?tscn=1458512553#c392184289303484833
http://steamcommunity.com/app/730/discussions/0/364042063114127030/

I made sure that all iterations of steam were allowed in the firewall settings, same with all of my games too. I didnt change any of my Norton settings, only the download path for the game and it is working now...

[The Giving One]

You said above you made no changes according to my first link. So after all, the symptoms that you mention seem to suggest that changing download regions may in fact have actually helped you on this. But apparently, you did not try that, from what you said about not changing anything.

If you have it solved, then that is good news.

[Beener Schnitzel]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

You said above you made no changes according to my first link. So after all, the symptoms that you mention seem to suggest that changing download regions may in fact have actually helped you on this. But apparently, you did not try that, from what you said about not changing anything.

If you have it solved, then that is good news.

Well my main issue was i had no space on one of my SSDs. So i was like, well, ill just download this game, but choose the other SSD. And it wouldnt work for some reason. It would download 300 Mb and then stop. and the disk useage would drop from 4.5MB to 0 in a few seconds. then i would try to pause it and steam would crash, both of my monitors would turn white and i had to hard shut down my computer a bunch of times.

I was getting ready to wipe my computer and fresh install windows and everything.

But I deleted a few games, and now its currently downloading Fallout 4, no changes to anything other than download path on my computer

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Beener Schnitzel:

Well my main issue was i had no space on one of my SSDs.

You should never fill up a drive like that, or even nearly full that is. Drives need plenty of free space to perform disk operations and caching and whatnot, so that can cause drive issues right there.

[Beener Schnitzel]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Originally posted by Beener Schnitzel:

Well my main issue was i had no space on one of my SSDs.

You should never fill up a drive like that, or even nearly full that is. Drives need plenty of free space to perform disk operations and caching and whatnot, so that can cause drive issues right there.

I see that now, this is my first build, and I will probably be buying another SSD since its black friday and all. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to talk!

[FMP]

Unless it's changed, Steam will download to the Steam installed drive then move the game over to the required location. So if the SSD that steam is installed to is full, that is what I'd expect to see.

Valve might have changed that however.

[Beener Schnitzel]

Originally posted by GDL:

Unless it's changed, Steam will download to the Steam installed drive then move the game over to the required location. So if the SSD that steam is installed to is full, that is what I'd expect to see.

Valve might have changed that however.

Well it gives me an option where i want to download the game to. If I chose an SSD that doesnt have steam installed, it asks me to make a steam library folder, i do that and then all hell breaks loose on my end.

This happened before i deleted games, and it happened after. I havent tried downloading anything to the reformatted SSD after i formatted it

[WESTLERRR]

me too 0 byts during installation :/

[Beener Schnitzel]

Originally posted by BurteN:

me too 0 byts during installation :/

Went onto the windows 10 forums (because i thought it might be a virus or something that would require a fresh install of windows)

and it was determined that i have a bad SSD, because i can make a new folder on my C drive and it downloaded and saved games right to it no problem. My 850 pro was unused BRAND NEW and was doing this.

Thank Samsung for the 10 year warrenty.

[Tressand]

a oc.