Allocating time estimates 1 hour for only 1 GB update

[Felixxian]

So, title kinda explains it. At some points it said it would only take a couple minutes, at other points it stayed around 20 minutes. It even got to the point where it said it will take an hour. Its actual time was probably 30 minutes or so (i just gave up and did other ♥♥♥♥).My Steam and steam games are on a 5TB hard drive and i still have 3TB left so it shouldnt take that long. Also, I can download at 25 mb/s but frequently it will drop down to 0 mb/s for a lil bit

[mgurak]

I'm having a similar problem. Some games, notably KurtzPel, tale 45 to 60 seconds to Preallocate when I start the update. The game then takes the typical amount of time to download. But then it's stuck in Updating for literally 4 to 5 minutes no matter how big or small the update was. The "time remaining" changes literally every second from 1hour+ to 10-15 minutes before finally settling down just before it finishes. It's the same small handful of games that do this every time. Is this a bug or bizarrely working as intended? I have a 300Mbps connection and plenty of RAM and disk space.

[rawWwRrr]

Game updates come in different ways. Some are a straight download, some download in chunks, others require decrypting, some require unpacking, others do all of the above. It all depends on the developer. I've had small MB size updates that take longer that GB updates. Updates go faster on SSD than spinning HDD as they are slower overall.

[Iceira]

covid-19 issue, not a pre-allocation issue, you both complain over DL after pre-allocations.
this is called congestions even before covid-19, and network in as we say in primetime region zone can affect such, im not sure you even can say 14:00 to 23:00 is primetime anymore but that was primetime before covid-19 ( call it after school then kids get home to kids got to bed )
i know i did not have to explan this, but many did not know what primetime was back then, and i bet even then some countrys start to open again, i bet there is still many at home.

best advice is as pinned down say's set client to update then not need ( dont update games you dont play in main hours )

sure go ahead check for bad packet and reboot router and pc 3minute after, but i doubt it will help.

see steam connection in help menu, but imo off peak hours, chance for better connection should be there.

just because i say this, dont mean you cant have a real problem, but in this times next day you might not have a issue at all.

[mgurak]

Thanks rawWwRrr. I guess I'll just have to keep updating those games last. Oh well.