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The disk write failure message is worrying, it could mean a background process is blocking Steam from downloading or maybe even a disk fault. Might be worth running the error checking tool on the disk as well.
However I could see IO errors in my event log. Chance520 can you see anything in your event log?
I also checked to make sure my firewall wasn't blocking my download and ran Disk Optimization, Registry cleanup, diagnostic report and a full system scan from my Norton 360 and nothing turned up on the drive. Unless you were thinking of something else to run? I've also tried running the download overnight with only steam open and my virus scanner on silent mode with the same result. I'm at a wall for what to try next.
Most recently I uninstalled Steam altogether and reinstalled it and I'm getting the same problem. It's so odd this is only happening to my steam games and not any other programs/downloads.
Anyone know why individual games would be causing this much trouble and not all of them?
If your ISP blocks or throttles traffic over these ports or your firewall is doing something crazy with them then this would be the reason.
Do either of those games give you the option to choose where to install it?
In another thread yesterday, someone from Italy was getting very slow downloads as well. Oddly enough, when the switched to London they got full speed again. It might be worth trying a few different locations to see if that has any impact.
Other than that, I'd peg the issue on Comcast, which has historically never got on well with Steam.
Do you think calling my ISP will do anything? I saw in a few forum posts that ISP's that throttle do so to slow torrenting and other forms common to piracy and can impact perfectly legal downloads too. Not sure if that's the case but it said so on the internet so it has to be true, right?
And thank you so much for the help Canti and everyone else that has offered advice and suggestions!
Anyone know how long waiting for Steam to reply to customer support emails usually takes? sent them and email last Monday about this issue and still haven't received a reply