Install Steam
login
|
language
简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)
繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese)
日本語 (Japanese)
한국어 (Korean)
ไทย (Thai)
Български (Bulgarian)
Čeština (Czech)
Dansk (Danish)
Deutsch (German)
Español - España (Spanish - Spain)
Español - Latinoamérica (Spanish - Latin America)
Ελληνικά (Greek)
Français (French)
Italiano (Italian)
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
Magyar (Hungarian)
Nederlands (Dutch)
Norsk (Norwegian)
Polski (Polish)
Português (Portuguese - Portugal)
Português - Brasil (Portuguese - Brazil)
Română (Romanian)
Русский (Russian)
Suomi (Finnish)
Svenska (Swedish)
Türkçe (Turkish)
Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
Українська (Ukrainian)
Report a translation problem
For a start are you SURE this is behaving wrongly? Because many games SHOULD download a bit, stop, unpack and decrypt, write, then start again, and so on. If you have a slower drive or a more "tired" drive, then more so.
Generally speaking, the limiting speed of Steam downloads IS the hard drive itself, not the internet because of this. Games like Payday 2 and Ark SE are notorious for this stop/start behaviour.
Also, hard drive space. You're supposed to run any drive with Steam on it NO MORE THAN 90% full. On top of this, when you download a game, you should allow up to THREE TIMES the total file size because it needs to uncompress and decrypt before writing the final data (Workspace in other words).
I metnion this because many people fall foul of this problem, where they may have a 1TB drive say, and have 850GB used, and go to download a 50GB game thinking they're fine, but they won't be.
And when you get too full guess what typically happens? Downloads stop, or get confused, or start writing in another place.
I know these might seem obvious points, but I have to ask.
For the HDD, it was completely empty, formatted, and had 1 TB (911 GB) when downloading. After trying to install Steam into the HDD directly and then downloading, it still had around 910 GB left
I know you said you've tested it, but tests don't always show stuff. If you've got sectors failing, that's normally pretty indicative, but if you just have a slowly failing board in there, it often doesn't get reported.
Assuming you've addressed the very things I spoke of because your answer didn't say anything about them.
Did you read either answer?
Because you haven't responded STILL to my first one, and you haven't answered the second as I addressed that. I CLEARLY said failures of the kind I mentioned typically won't (or might not) show up.
The fact remains that there is one common denominator in downloading and playing - the drive itself. Not Steam. Steam is only used at the start for DRM purposes.
There's a couple of ways.
Perhaps the easiest is to get another drive to swap it out with. If it's your OS drive, you'll have to clone it,. undoubtedly. Then see if things change.
You can do more intensive scans which will likely take a few hours,but even then it can be sometimes difficult to find errors like the one I suspect you are maybe suffering from.
So you can do either I guess, but swapping out would be more of a definitive result.
And note, the problem I suspect doesn't mean there's any errors or anything that you can pick up as I don't think there's anything wrong with the platter or read/write head. My concern is in the circuitry. If something is going bad, that could be slowing things down. Bad onboard cache for example.
Lastly, can you just confirm you understood the point about disk usage under Steam in my first post?
I think I understand. For the part about that a game can take upwards of 3 times its size to download, I think I should be fine. I have 711 Free GB on the HDD and the largest game I have is 100 GB.
For the part about certain games may start and stop when downloading, I acknowledge that but games that are even just 10 GB or around that, would be downloading for over a day even on 50 Mbps for Internet speed, which should download it at around an hour or so.
Maybe I'm looking at any of this right. I don't know.
do note OP complain over time spend on it,
it will be downloading for very long time with 0 Mbs
thats sounds like Antivirus blocking issue ( make steam.exe to allow rule. ) reboot pc require.
dont get me wrong here OP, this is a common mistake many steam user do.
and you can find several argued debat on this. ( you will even seen some as me got enough of this, if you cant DL then is possible AV app = ANTIVIRUS APPS or proxy settings
or your ISP has VIP portal that need to open traffic, but either Way if you have disk issue
simple test make a huge test copy if you can get past 40-60mb/s on own disk write on same deisk with read /write. then you have a issue with the disk.
rest is unpacking as crunchyfrog point out and do have free room enough.
i hve a 10 yeard old laptop thats faster then yours. ( if that is not proof enough, nothing will help you, to understand there is alot of bad choise, Laptop owners can do that reduce speed on disk. )
do note ( seen from a Laptop point of view if we can call it that )
do not have task that take CPU power m do not have things running write at disk all the time.
do not have Multi access , such as have game installed same place as OS or partition disk so you do access same harddisk with app or OS (only Laptop with 1 disk have no choise in this)
well that was best show case. ( try get ride of preinstall apps you dont use or need, some laptop is filled with it )
all this still end up with is laptop update and most new laptop has automatic check for Driver and Bios.
then all this is done
Try Iobits Driver booster, this is to show you how bad our Brand Support is.
we have so many onboard device that they have newer optimized drivers that manufatory dont care about. its like they focus on Stability, and give a ratts butt about new improved Drivers
just because i have no issue with it, dont mean you cant get into trouble with it.
ps.
dont feel bad about the smacking in a nice way im doing here.
you need to be a very educated and skilled person with alot of experience, you can find alot of diffrent tech person that dont agree with me , and i burn them all, so do get a own friend that has tech skill, this is complaicated and same time walk ina park, then you know what you are doing. a standard pc support will solved this within 1 hour.
do note there is a diffrence in Laptop experts and desktop experts.
and desktop experts, seem to think they are same, and they are not.
Laptop is build for max power saveing , and desktop is not.
even I/O on disk is effect by laptop, the performance mode is part of this.
or scematic option if you change them.
I already made the antivirus allow steam.exe. I also did in the firewall and vpn. I've tried disconnecting vpn and connecting vpn to see that the results are largely the same with or without vpn connected.
For the bloatware and unused apps, I deleted them day one. For the secondary hard drive I am installing them on, there is no apps on there expect steam. For steam I've tried having it installed on the primary drive and installing games on secondary drive and also tried installing steam on secondary drive and installing games on the secondary drive.
I've tried closing all programs and any unnecessary processes during installing to make sure it doesn't take away CPU power during installing.
I have updated my OS, drivers via driver booster 8 and checked manually on device manager and properties, and also updated BIOS.
I've encountered an issue on my laptop as soon as I got it, and oddly enough my youngest daughter got it on her laptop too.
There seems to be a problem with Windows 10 where some computers that have power saving settings (so especially laptops) will royally ♥♥♥♥ up the disk usage, so it maxes out even when it's not in use.
So you could first check to see what's happening by bringing up your task manager when you're trying to donwload. If it sits at rock solid 100% on disk usage without fluctuating, then this IS likely to be it.
There's a registry settings to fix this and if this is the case, I can dig it out for you.
The one I'm referring to is step 6 of this guide.
https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/100-disk-usage-windows-10-fixed/#g
Though if it still persists (and note from personal experience it took a couple of reboots of Windows for it to work), the other methods are worth checking too as they will impact performance.
Best of luck.
As i recall last time cruncy aient that a specific MSI issue.
but i bet OP will reply to MSI , and give hes warm friendly complain to them if thats the case.
Until I realised my daughter's Lenovo laptop had it as well, and then started seeing more people with different laptops suffer it as well. There may have even been a desktop too though I can 't be sure.