Solution for Steam’s ‘Download Restarts’ Problem if none is working.

[Slim Shady]

Edit 4 (latest): While downlaoding, turn off the auotamtic updates by selecting "Only update the game when I launch it". Also, participate in the Steam Beta Client updates. And, always Exit Steam properly when you want to give your PC a break. And if, GOD Forbid, it still goes back to 0% after you turn on Steam, wait! It will probably roll back to its actual progress. (Thanks to Bad-Motha for the advice)

Edit3: Solution MIGHT not be working after Steam's many updates to the client.
“Game downloads up to a certain percentage e.g. 60% and then you have to end your day and shut your PC off. So you shut it down. But wait, as you start your PC and steam the next day i.e. Time for the download to resume, you see this in the game download’s progress’ area instead of resuming:

. Pre-Allocating Data..
. Download starting…
.Game downloading: 0% done

OR you see that your download doesn’t have the progress up till the yesterday’s 60% but something very reduced like 12% or commonly from the kick-off area i.e. 0% percent.”
This problem is found amongst many steam users. All they can do is complaining on forums everywhere and demanding Steam for the fix but Steam isn’t working on it at all. Other fellow users suggest some ways for its fix but none works. Well, I have found a somehow fix for it.

FIX
So before shutting down your PC, you should do the following:
Go to:
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\downloading
There you’ll see a folder and two PATCH files. Just Copy those PATCH files and put them into another folder in some other place e.g. on desktop. So you’ll have one copy of two PATCH files on the desktop and the other in its original directory.
The next day when you turn steam on and if the download is messed up again i.e. Restarts or resumes from a reduced percentage point, let it go on for a second and then close steam. Now copy those two PATCH files from your desktop to
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\downloading
And choose ‘Replace the files’. Now open your steam again and you’ll see that download starts from the exact place at the point when you copied them last time.
Do this each and every time when you close steam. It’ll resume from THE EXACT PLACE WHEN YOU COPIED THOSE FILES.




What are those PATCH files?
These PATCH files are the files where the download cache or download progress is stored and updated every minute automatically.
Edit3: Solution MIGHT not be working after Steam's many updates to the client.
Peace.

[Slim Shady]

Първоначално публикувано от §RuRu§:

I just copied the whole files from my C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\downloading and paste it on my downloads where my steam setup is located and when i opened my steam download of dota2 it automatically resume on my last progress....

i hope i help you :)

wait... what? you copy the files from download and paste it again on downloads? that was what I understood from your provided content, brother. Can you please explain what you did?

[-RuRu :3]

In my C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\downloading has no steam setup i paste it on C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\Downloads where steam setup is located...
it will automatically resume on your progress...

[76561198127087709]

@Slim Shady anyway thank you. I only solved this problem by borrowing dota 2 files from my classmates and paste it on my steamapps.

[Slim Shady]

Първоначално публикувано от §RuRu§:

In my C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\downloading has no steam setup i paste it on C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\Downloads where steam setup is located...
it will automatically resume on your progress...

so you mean you copied the game data files into steam apps/ downloading. Tell me exactly what do you paste in c:\ downloads?

[Slim Shady]

Първоначално публикувано от coolfire002:

@Slim Shady anyway thank you. I only solved this problem by borrowing dota 2 files from my classmates and paste it on my steamapps.

what? I use to do same for my Origin downloads but does that work in steam too? and do you have to paste the whole game data files or it's OK to get them even if they are incomplete and steam will automatiacally resume those files? incomplete are OK? and my pleasure dude. Hope you have fun

[Vickers]

Well, actually, the way you can do it is that you move the folder out of the steam folders and into somewhere else, and change it's name to whatever it would be called in the steamapps/common folder.

Then you get steam to delete the local files it has there.

Then copy your renamed game files into steamapps/common.

Then reinstall the game.

Steam will automatically discover all files that are there, so it will only download what is missing.

*slight change* Well, It's best to do this if it's reset to 0%, as it wont go back exactly to where it is. But it's still better than having to redownload the entire game, right?

Also, if you do this and it reads as 0%, but the bar is somewhere that isn't 0%, then idk how i fixed that. I just did.

[Slim Shady]

Which folder I move out of Steam dfolders, friend?

Първоначално публикувано от Regidor:

Well, actually, the way you can do it is that you move the folder out of the steam folders and into somewhere else, and change it's name to whatever it would be called in the steamapps/common folder.

Then you get steam to delete the local files it has there.

Then copy your renamed game files into steamapps/common.

Then reinstall the game.

Steam will automatically discover all files that are there, so it will only download what is missing.

*slight change* Well, It's best to do this if it's reset to 0%, as it wont go back exactly to where it is. But it's still better than having to redownload the entire game, right?

Also, if you do this and it reads as 0%, but the bar is somewhere that isn't 0%, then idk how i fixed that. I just did.

[BUNNY]

but i have four patch files in folder ?
do i need to copy all 4 files ???
plzzzz help me
i am downloading dota 2 3rd time last time it was 90% ...

[Slim Shady]

Brother, This solution used to work when Steam had only 2 patch files, but then quite sometime ago steam updated the client and it ruined this fix. Much chances are that this won't work anymore. But still you can try, and yes, All four patch files you'll have to backup which are related to Dota2 downlaod.Best of luck

Първоначално публикувано от D.K:

but i have four patch files in folder ?
do i need to copy all 4 files ???
plzzzz help me
i am downloading dota 2 3rd time last time it was 90% ...

[BUNNY]

ok i will try ...,,, i hope this time dota2 download successfully...
thankx for reply.

[Slim Shady]

I hope too, babe. :)

Първоначално публикувано от D.K:

ok i will try ...,,, i hope this time dota2 download successfully...
thankx for reply.

[BUNNY]

i have installed dota 2 successfully thank GOD

[Slim Shady]

Първоначално публикувано от D.K:

i have installed dota 2 successfully thank GOD

Mubarak ho, mu-azziz dost. :)

[FADE]

I copied those files but when I replace them those automatically gets deleted and resumes from 1% again!!
I copied files ---
state_570_571.patch
,state_570_573.patch
,state_570_575.patch,
state_570_228990.patch
after pasting those in downloads when I restart steam those gets deleted and starts rom 1% again!
please help me!!!

[Slim Shady]

Първоначално публикувано от HiSoKa....:

I copied those files but when I replace them those automatically gets deleted and resumes from 1% again!!
I copied files ---
state_570_571.patch
,state_570_573.patch
,state_570_575.patch,
state_570_228990.patch
after pasting those in downloads when I restart steam those gets deleted and starts rom 1% again!
please help me!!!

Friend, This used to work before, But steam has updated the client now and this solution doesn't work now As i know. But let's do some experiment. Can you, along with those Patch files, copy that 'appmanifest ACF' file related to your game that is being downloaded, and replace them in Steamapps folder in the same way you do to Patch Files? I mean before shutting steam, copy Patch files and that ACF file in steamapps too, and if GOD FORBId your download is dammed again, copy Patch to steamapps>downloading and Appmanifest file to steamapps folder and replace them. it might work, you never know. It's not that bad tro give it a try cuz these files also momentarily get updated as I see. so lets do the same to appmanifest ACF files. K? Got me? Let me know if it works by any chance.