Steam sending downloads to queue

[whiskeygiant]

As the title says, Steam refuses to keep a game in the downloader. It will download for about 1 second, then send it to the queue and keep it there. Every little while it will download for about a second then back into the queue.

I have tried every help article on related issues that I could find, have reset steam, deleted teh appcache, gone as far to reinstall and still cannot get any games to download.

Has anyone had this issue and successfully solved it?

[Burzum]

Issue has not been solved, waiting for ticket response. Also change region that kinda work for me.

[Uru_Buru]

Hey there,
i've got the same problem since 3 or 4 days! Im also tried everything, and nothing happend.
Is there anybody who could help? The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ isn't writing back!

THANKS

[Ford]

I found that, if you can afford to babysit the downloads, you can keep clicking the "move to top of queue" button to force it to download.

After I finished all my downloads, I started derping around here and learned about a region change trick as a workaround. I'll have to try that later.

[AbsoluteKermit]

I've had this issues for months, nothing has worked.

[Ursonis]

I've had this issue for almost 2 months, and finally found a solution. For me, it ended up being a driver issue with my Linksys Network Adapter. To fix the issue, all I had to do was roll back the driver to an earlier version. To do that:

1. Go to your Device Manager (open Start menu, type Device Manager, should come up in program list).
2. Under "Network Adapters" find your primary network adapter (ex: Linksys WMP600N, D-Link Wireless, etc.). Right-click it and select "Properties".
3. Click the "Driver" tab at the top of the Properties window.
4. There are several options here, as well as information about your driver. If available, click "Roll Back Driver". Accept/Ignore any pop-up messages you may see.
5. Click "OK", then restart your computer.
6. Test Steam to see if it will download games. If so, hurray!


If "Roll Back Driver" is grayed out, you may try completely uninstalling the driver for your device, then reinstalling an older driver (preferably released before February 2013, as referenced in the post I link below). If there are no drivers released before then, try the oldest driver available.

I was having this issue along with many other internet-related issues (corrupt images on webpages, downloads corrupted, etc.). The following post on Microsoft's support website lead me to the solution. If this doesn't work for you, try reading that post to get more ideas (a guy specifically mentions Steam malfunctioning later down in the post).

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/all-browsers-rendering-badly-images-and-downloads/cd19c492-3d9b-45a8-b885-0ee102a41ca2

Hope that helps!!

[AbsoluteKermit]

You sir, are a beautiful human being.

[georgedv1]

My drivers are 2012...but still have problem. I did an update driver in device mngr but sys replied all drivers are up to date....went to linksys site and need to remove adapter to find serial# and model #...these guys are nuts....it wiuld take all afternoon