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NIKRAX Apr 24, 2024 @ 10:28am
Disk usage very unstable
Hi!

So every time I try and download a game in Steam no matter the size of it my disk usage keeps just decreasing and increasing very randomly even getting to 0mb/s, does anyone have any tips?
I tried changing download regions and clearing cache
I got a 476GB XPG SPECTRIX S40G and a 931GB Western Digital WD Blue SN570 1TB which is the one where I download games at
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Tristin Apr 24, 2024 @ 10:30am 
It's normal. Steam game downloads comes in compressed pieces. Decompressing requires extra disk performance. Disk usage fluctuates due to accessing multiple compressed files.
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Supafly Apr 24, 2024 @ 10:33am 
Steam downloads in compressed chunks, once a chunk is down it gets decompressed and installed. Thus the disk and cpu usage will fluctuate as it decompresses and installs whilst it is still downloading the next chunk
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NIKRAX Apr 24, 2024 @ 10:38am 
Originally posted by Tristin:
It's normal. Steam game downloads comes in compressed pieces. Decompressing requires extra disk performance. Disk usage fluctuates due to accessing multiple compressed files.


I say this cause I have a friend who was just downloading the same game as me and he has a steady 300mb/s disk usage
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Tristin Apr 24, 2024 @ 10:40am 
Originally posted by NIKRAX:
Originally posted by Tristin:
It's normal. Steam game downloads comes in compressed pieces. Decompressing requires extra disk performance. Disk usage fluctuates due to accessing multiple compressed files.


I say this cause I have a friend who was just downloading the same game as me and he has a steady 300mb/s disk usage
Does he use SSD? SSD improves significantly on download/install speeds.
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NIKRAX Apr 24, 2024 @ 10:43am 
Originally posted by Tristin:
Originally posted by NIKRAX:


I say this cause I have a friend who was just downloading the same game as me and he has a steady 300mb/s disk usage
Does he use SSD? SSD improves significantly on download/install speeds.

He does use an SSD and so do I, both my storage devices are M.2 SSD's and they are "superior" to his, and this only happens on steam, I can download same size games or bigger in epic games for example and it takes less then half the time
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