Why wont steam download "fast"?

[TrixAre4FatKids]

I have 1Gbps interent. Speed test will usually give me ~ 950Mbps on a speed test
32gb DDR4
12700k all Pcore 5.3ghz Ecore-4.2ghz
4090
I have 3 NVME gen 4 2tb drives, A 990 and a MSI MPX600 and a lexmark SV770 or something along those lines.
i have an MSI Radix RXE6600 that i am hard lined directly into with about 5 feet of Cat6E.
I have eliminated literally every hardware bottleneck i could possible think of.
Yet i CANNOT get steam to download over like 350-400 Mbps. 1/2 my speed

PS. Sorry for everyone whos going to read this and be like "wow cant believe this idiot is complaining about ONLY 350Mbps" :(

[GRIMM]

Have you tried changing download regions?

If yes, then have you tried changing to a download region other than something that is nearby? Believe it or not you can sometimes have better luck with download servers clear across the world. Just have to trial and error it. Find a region also that appears to be in downtime away from their peak hours.

[Lithurge]

The reality is nobody can give you a definitive answer. For many of us it maxes out our connection, including 1Gbps connections, but randomly for some people it seems to get 'stuck' and no amount of troubleshooting resolves it.

People can only suggest things like try disabling write cache in Windows for the drive you're downloading too, or checking your ISP isn't throttling you when it comes to Steam downloads.

[bidulless]

hello
because you're not alone may be
https://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/
The download capacities are not infinite but sized for a question of cost

[3moreme]

Sorry, I can't really help with your issue, but I just have to ask :
What the heck is a "lexmark SV770" ????

I have a Lexmark printer, but never heard of SV770 :D

[TrixAre4FatKids]

Postat inițial de 3moreme:

Sorry, I can't really help with your issue, but I just have to ask :
What the heck is a "lexmark SV770" ????

I have a Lexmark printer, but never heard of SV770 :D

sorry i couldnt remember what it was XD, Its a Lexar® NM790,
some weird Cacheless SSD or something. Was on sale 2tb drive for like $120 on the latest prime days

[TrixAre4FatKids]

Postat inițial de GRIMM:

Have you tried changing download regions?

If yes, then have you tried changing to a download region other than something that is nearby? Believe it or not you can sometimes have better luck with download servers clear across the world. Just have to trial and error it. Find a region also that appears to be in downtime away from their peak hours.

i have tried everything i can think of brother. Ive all but given up at this point.

[TrixAre4FatKids]

Postat inițial de Lithurge:

The reality is nobody can give you a definitive answer. For many of us it maxes out our connection, including 1Gbps connections, but randomly for some people it seems to get 'stuck' and no amount of troubleshooting resolves it.

People can only suggest things like try disabling write cache in Windows for the drive you're downloading too, or checking your ISP isn't throttling you when it comes to Steam downloads.

i tried disabling the write cache, it actually made the issue worse. Im not sure how to check if ISP is throttling?

[Lithurge]

Postat inițial de TrixAre4FatKids:

Postat inițial de Lithurge:

The reality is nobody can give you a definitive answer. For many of us it maxes out our connection, including 1Gbps connections, but randomly for some people it seems to get 'stuck' and no amount of troubleshooting resolves it.

People can only suggest things like try disabling write cache in Windows for the drive you're downloading too, or checking your ISP isn't throttling you when it comes to Steam downloads.

i tried disabling the write cache, it actually made the issue worse. Im not sure how to check if ISP is throttling?

Easiest way is to use a VPN, most offer a free trial. As you're not using it to bypass region restrictions you aren't breaking the ToS with Steam, in case you were worried about that.

[TrixAre4FatKids]

Postat inițial de Lithurge:

Postat inițial de TrixAre4FatKids:

i tried disabling the write cache, it actually made the issue worse. Im not sure how to check if ISP is throttling?

Easiest way is to use a VPN, most offer a free trial. As you're not using it to bypass region restrictions you aren't breaking the ToS with Steam, in case you were worried about that.

i have surfshark,. ill give it a go. That would be insane cuz i tried to download ARK again to play today. there is no reason that a gb connections should need 3 hours to download 170gb

[TrixAre4FatKids]

so. Weird. Found this on a 1year old reddit post, Did it. Now im getting ~700Mbps on download, So around 2.1x higher

"There is a Win 10 & 11 bug that limits download and upload. This is what worked for me. I spent hours researching what to do, and just copy and paste this in command prompt one line at a time, and it WILL fix it if you had the same windows bug that I had. (You might have to enter it again after a couple updates. Apparently windows still doesn’t realize it yet…) NETWORK FIX Win 10 & 11

ipconfig /release

ipconfig /flushdns

ipconfig /renew and press Enter. (This will stall for a moment.)

netsh int ip reset and press Enter. (Don't restart yet.)

netsh winsock reset

netsh interface tcp show global

netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=normal

autotuning=normal"

[TrixAre4FatKids]

day 2 of testing now, Just downloaded all of ARK in like 13 min. Maxed out DL speed of 963Mbps, Not sure why the commands i listed above worked. But looks like they did lmao

[Satoru]

Postat inițial de TrixAre4FatKids:

day 2 of testing now, Just downloaded all of ARK in like 13 min. Maxed out DL speed of 963Mbps, Not sure why the commands i listed above worked. But looks like they did lmao

They don't

Ark patches update the entire game. Meaning that Steam

1) downloads a small 1GB or so patch
2) steam reads all 120GB of Ark files
3) Steam calculates how all 120GB of th enew files need to be createed
4) Steam writes out 120GB of new files
5) Steam copies these files to the install directory

The 'problem' isnt the download speed. Steam is sending you the 1GB download patch file. Your system than has to read, calculate and write out all 120GB of files needed to patch the game.

These 'problems' are almost always because your anti-virus is trash and is throttling the patching process. Basiclly if you're not using Windows Defender, uninstall whatever you have because its not doing anything useful other than slowing down your computer