My download speed dropped much

[Dżon Jakuza]

I've got better internet lately, everything goes better, downloading from Epic games, downloading from internet etc. but download speed on Steam has dropped very very VERY much. For example: 870 MB of DBD update takes up to 50 minutes, not mentioning Helldivers 2 11GB patch. However Persona 5 download was going smoothly, but this is an exception, everything other downloads very slow from Steam. Any suggestions/solutions?

[Ettanin]

Make sure there's space on your drive where Steam is installed.

[Dżon Jakuza]

Originally posted by Ettanin:

Make sure there's space on your drive where Steam is installed.

I have 80GB of free space on that disk out of 1TB, is that enough?

[Ettanin]

Originally posted by 呪術Apeljus回線:

Originally posted by Ettanin:

Make sure there's space on your drive where Steam is installed.

I have 80GB of free space on that disk out of 1TB, is that enough?

Depends on the game's size, but a general rule of thumb is at least 20%, so 200 GB free space.

There are a few quite I/O heavy steps:
1. Downloading the encrypted and compressed chunk (Internet)
2. Decrypting and unpacking the chunk (Disk)
3. Applying the diff delta to a new copy of the patched file (Disk) [if it's a patch]
4. Deleting the previous now outdated copy of the file (Disk) [if it's a patch]

A general rule of thumb is that you need twice the game's size in free space or, the game's size for both the main drive and the library drive if the game is being installed into a Steam library.