Can't download "big" games like payday 2, only smaller games

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Patler²³ Nov 2, 2018 @ 2:55am

Good day everyone,
I don't know if my problem is right here but i have been trying to solve it for 4 days straight and i just don't know what to do.
Basically i can download smaller games on Steam, like hotline miami 1/2, bloons and so on that only have about 500mb but i can't download bigger games like for example payday 2 with 24gb or theHunter with 14gb.
In a little bit more detail when i download a small game to my hdd or ssd the active time of the harddrive is quite low, maybe about 10% and the download goes well, staying at about 10mb/s for the whole download.
As soon as i download a bigger game the active time of either one of these harddrives jumps to 100% and after a few seconds of normal download speed it just goes to to literally 0 bytes/s.
I have searched around google alot and seen that some people have similar problems but haven't read that these problems are only for bigger games.
I have already tried:
-Stop DiagTrack
-Disable the FireWall
-Reinstall Steam
-Change the Steam Download Region to basically every region available
-Clear download cache
-repair install folder
-And probably some more i can't remember right now

My Setup:
Intel i7 950 3.07 GHz
12 GB Ram
64bit
Nividia 750
SSD : Sandisk SDSSDHII240G
HDD : Seagate ST2000DM008-2FR102 (Brand new, bought a few days ago since the old hdd was starting to get broken and i thought a new one might fix the problems)
GPU : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB

If you guys need any more information just write it down there, haven't posted much in the Community before so i don't now which information is needed.
Already thanks in advance and i hope we can find the problem!

Also what i wanted to add is that both my harddrives have by far enough space for the games, the hdd has about 1.8TB free and the ssd at least 140gb

Last edited by rotNdude; Nov 2, 2018 @ 9:06am

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_I_ Nov 2, 2018 @ 3:03am

make sure you have a steam library on the correct drive
and when you download it will ask which library to install it
be sure to pick the hdd for larger games

Bad 💀 Motha Nov 2, 2018 @ 3:07am

Going to 0 bytes is normal, the client has to stop and handle the files a certain way; with regards to unpacking, injecting updates into current game files, etc.

For games like TF2, CSGO, Payday2, its usually faster to just uninstall the whole game and redownload it fresh. If your ISP speed plan is fast enough.

Last edited by Bad 💀 Motha; Nov 2, 2018 @ 3:08am

Patler²³ Nov 2, 2018 @ 3:18am

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:
Going to 0 bytes is normal, the client has to stop and handle the files a certain way; with regards to unpacking, injecting updates into current game files, etc.

For games like TF2, CSGO, Payday2, its usually faster to just uninstall the whole game and redownload it fresh. If your ISP speed plan is fast enough.

Yeah the problem i have happens when installing games fresh, i have 100Mbit/s download and so even bigger games normally dont take very long to download either, the only problem is that when freshly installing smaller games all goes well, but when i try to freshly install bigger games, it just doesn't do anything as the download is stuck at 0bytes/s only sometimes "jumping" to like 200kb/s which is still basically nothing.

Bad 💀 Motha Nov 2, 2018 @ 3:38am

That means the Client has to do something with the files before it can go any further, it is normal. There is nothing to fix, cause nothing is broken. It's just how it is, period.

Try a different download server in Steam Client settings; regardless of your real world location you are free to try any of those download servers. The closest one might not always be the best.

_I_ Nov 2, 2018 @ 3:48am

steam downlod page graph shows internet and hdd usage
if the hdd is pegged its waiting working on decompressing or moving files

Patler²³ Nov 2, 2018 @ 3:55am

Ok thank you guys for the fast answers! if it sometimes just be like that i am gonna try to just keep downloading until something happens.

_I_ Nov 2, 2018 @ 4:04am

steam downloads in stages
1. allocate space on the drive
2. populate files (downoad)
3. unpack
4. move to steamapps\gamename
5. clean up download folder

Bad 💀 Motha Nov 2, 2018 @ 4:05am

You can also try this:
> Install the game to C Drive SSD
> When it has completed, right click GameName in Steam Library > Properties > Local Files > Move and then select your other HDD based Steam Library Folder.