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Downloading? Yes. Decompressing, decrypting and processing? No.
works for me, speed went up from the usual 2 - 2.2mb/s (tested servers around the freakin globe to be precise) up to reliable, constant ~8.5mb/s - which is the max I pay for
and it all lands on the very same disk...DRAM cache or not
found one, maybe two reliable servers...rest was always capped at around 2mb/s, some even below that
then sucked something elsewhere from the www = full speed, Frankfurt, New York, Tokyo...
it´s STEAM that causes those issues, not the ISP per se... I have a budget subscription fyi and Steam is the only place I had issues until I had the data sent around the world instead of getting bearable DL speeds from the servers in or around my country - radius <1000km
But ISP's can throttle speeds. It has been proven they do it quite often, and even around holidays even more. If steam is slowing down speeds, then throttling ISP's can cause it to even be more slower. If you can prove 100% it is not the ISP throttling, please provide evidence on here, as that is what i believe. Every ISP does it, and even post it in their contracts when you sign up for their service if you actually read the contracts.
https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/how-can-i-tell-if-my-internet-is-being-throttled-by-my-isp
Have you ever read fully a contract or just sign it? Same thing with TOS on steam. I bet OP is one of those people who just clicks the "I AGREE" button. One of the main evidence that ISP is throttling is if internet speed varies and slows down when it is fast before. For example, if the speed was fast in the past, ISP throttling could of slowed it down.
There are other things that can also slow down speed, but unless it is fully tested, OP and other posters cannot prove 100% that their OP's ISP is not throttling their internet.
It's not because your SSD lacks a DRAM at least. Yes it does impact potentially its performance, but modern SSDs are so fast it would be hard to notice.
Modern SSDs without DRAM are still fast; sometimes faster than older SSDs with dram. (I noticed a DRAMless ssd outperform the S980 pro on all fronts)
really not the issue lol.
Windows 11 has a number of systems constantly running that can influence how quick writing data to the SSD goes.
One of them is Windows Defender, which actively keeps an eye on the activity and also scans the file anew as bytes are being written to it.
That is, if it is enabled to do so.
The same goes for Telemetry, Search Indexing, stuff like that.
I recommend at least trying to optimize your OS first before considering other things. Look up guides on how to disable Search, ssds don't need it due to their vast speed anyway,
See if that helps a bit.
Also look through Task Scheduler and prevent defender from scanning while your PC isn't idling. (I mean it can just wait till you're doing nothing before scanning the file)
When you download on Steam files are both compressed and encrypted, so there's a lot of work that needs to go on, more so than from other places. You can see evidence of this on the donwloads screen by watching the graph. See how it downloads a chunk, then the net speed drops to nil, but the hard drive is active? THat's because it's unpacking and doing work.
So what actually limits your speed is a combination of you hard drive, RAM, CPU, net connection, I/O and more. ANY one of them being a bottlneck will limit the speed.
You can get a handle on what's limiting things by simply bringing up Windows Task Manager while downloading as well as the downloads page and see whcih resources are being hit the hardest. If one or more things are, then that's your bottleneck.