

Guess why so many big time Publishers left Steam and do their own thing now and rather work with Microsoft and Epic. They flat out stated some years ago they are not willing to get better servers for "the few downtimes and the few problems during sale events". Valve just doesn't care and doesn't want to invest the billions they make on a better infrastructure, the same they don't care about customer support or anything. It has always been that way, in fact, it was worse some years ago during every sale with Steam going down for hours. Originally posted by ShadowAngel:Most of the time it's just the servers being overloaded because they suck. I'll make sure that I have ample space though. when I look at the graph while, specifically in this case Splitgate, is running an update, the disk usage tanks first to nothing, and then network bars completely disappear. You can easily check this by looking at the graphs on the downloads page - if the download speed is zero, you should still notice disk activity working. Payday2 and Ark are notorious for downloading a chunk, stopping while it sorts it all out, before starting up again, so you might want to make sure this isn't happening for your games you're referring to. However, some games do download weirdly too. Originally posted by crunchyfrog:There's afew reasons this can happen, and it can often get misunderstood.

But if you then try to download a 50GB game, thinking you're OK< you likely won't be.Īnd when you over use this space, the typical sorts of behaviour that occur are extreme slowdown on downloads, downliading to a different drive you asked for, or just completely stopping. So, for example, if you have a 1 TB drive, and you've used 850GB (that's 85%) you're cool. Also you should never run Steam install drive to more than 90% full. Because of this, you should always allow up to THREE TIMES the total file size for the thing you're downloading as it needs to unpack and sort all that stuff before writing to its final destination. So this means, your CPU and hard drive are also limiting factors (more so in fact). Games here are both encrypted AND compressed. Steam downloads work differently to other places (even for the same games). There's afew reasons this can happen, and it can often get misunderstood.Ĭontrary to common opinion, download speeds DO NOT depend purely upon your internet here.
