Im having Download problem!!!
While you can download games using Ubisoft or other applications, the download speed drops to 1 on Steam and does not work.
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Elucidator Sep 22, 2024 @ 1:21pm 
With technical things you have to be specific about the experience, its details and what you want to solve.

Saying you have a download problem is, kinda like telling someone you're angry about the pizza guy avoiding your house even though you ordered pizza. The question you need to ask is 'why', right? Is he afraid of people. Is the floor dirty, etc. Once you figure out why, you can figure out what can be done done to fix it.

So we wonder, why is it a problem? Does it only happen today?
Is the cable good? Is your Wi Fi good?
Is your PC good? Is your electricity good?
Are the internal parts okay?
Is software okay? Is there any setting causing less download speed with steam specifically active maybe? etc.

Also, I have added your thread to a list I recently made here:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/3/6655846466491940045/

Some may have an answer you're looking for, no clue.
but download speed issues pop up daily basically and I miss most of them.
I changed my network settings
I changed my download region
I cleared the cache
I reset the modem
My internet speed is very fast in other applications
Elucidator Sep 22, 2024 @ 2:52pm 
Its always just Steam.
and the reason for that is because rather than downloading a file, the way the download is done is by pretending to be a mediastream, as if you're watching a video on daily motion or something.

Its not the same as a download task you start by the browser at all. First, the download is booted by the Steam Client Service, a background program that launches when you launch steam.
This program doesn't use the same use rights as you, the current user.
Thanks to that all windows thinks it is not an important task to worry about and resources are better spend on other things, including saving power.

Most modern hardware have all kinds of green power, power saving settings in them, and most network interface controllers will by default offload a lot of tasks to the CPU, which of course, has more power saving settings in itself. (not just those efficiency cores, but the cpu lowers its own power usage and slows down the clock to save power).

It is the combination of everything that makes your download slower, especially on Steam.

Aside this, the drive by default is encrypted by bitlocker, which slows down writing to it.
there are other things windows does that slow down the network basically.



Edit:
Here:
https://helpdesk.flexradio.com/hc/en-us/articles/202118518-Optimizing-Ethernet-Adapter-Settings-for-Maximum-Performance

https://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
(at least disable the networkthrottlingindex with this)

https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol/

Put Power Management Plan on Performce instead of balanced.
Last edited by Elucidator; Sep 22, 2024 @ 2:55pm
Lithurge Sep 23, 2024 @ 12:19am 
If you're downloading to a SSD try turning the write cache off for that drive whilst downloading through Steam.
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