![]() ![]() Steam will not download faster than the HDD can physically accommodate for, it can't, and they're crippling the HDD with other operations so the HDD physically CAN'T download any faster because it's so busy with operations. There's no problem with doing those three things at the same time. Downloading, decompressing, and writing at the same time. Originally posted by r0llinlacs:The problem is it's doing two, actually three things at once. It's not me and Steam behaves exactly the same way on every computer I've ever used Steam on. They are 7200rpm gaming drives with lots of cache and capable of 160+MB/s. They aren't crappy 5200rpm laptop drives that cap out at 100MB/s with pitiful random speeds. They need to create an HDD optimized download mode or something because their download method is absolutely absurdly slow on HDDs.Īnd for god sake it's not my HDDs. I don't have this problem with other services. It's still decompressing and writing, but just stops downloading. ![]() Your HDD is so crippled with other operations that it can only download 2MB/s? GREAT$$$$$Īnd then there's periods where it just stops downloading completely. And the slow download speeds, hell, that's a plus for them. I see why they do it this way, because the other method requires more free disk space, since the game would have to download fully, then decompress and install fully, it would need enough free space for two copies of the game until the installation is completed. It's not Steam limiting download speeds per-say, as much as it is a problem with their install method that causes downloads to slow to a crawl on an HDD. ![]() I can do it with many other services, but not Steam. There is no reason I can't download over 30MB/s to an HDD. The problem is it's doing two, actually three things at once. An HDD can write data faster than my 100MB/s internet can provide. Originally posted by Cathulhu:So, it's not a download speed problem, but a writing speed problem. Stop crippling HDDs with your install method! And I know it's so you can save bandwidth, limiting download speeds to the capabilities of the user's storage drives. When I can go and download 100gb game from RapidGator in less than 20 minutes, then install it in 10-15 more minutes on the same slow HDD, but the same game will take an hour and most likely even longer on Steam, with gigabit internet and 24 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CPU cores, THAT'S A SERVICE PROBLEM. Steam, Gabe, I know you know what makes piracy so attractive, it's the service. The ONLY time Steam ever hits over 30MB/s is when installing to an NVME SSD. Halving the speed of decompression AND halving the speed of the download. Oh, and want to install a game onto an HDD? Well they're capable of completely saturating a gigabit internet connection, yet Steam will download EVEN SLOWER on an HDD because it's decompressing at the same time it's downloading, completely bottlenecking the HDD. I realy want a button to just patch games without secure patching because the patching takes more time then to downloaden some games whole again.What's the point of having gigabit internet when Steam downloads at a max of 30MB/s? So you see that the download can be finished in like 5 Minutes but the moving of files overriting and moving back takes a lot more time in most games up to 5x the download time. The new patched files then get pushed back into the game folder (and probably checked if they are correct) The duplicated files get patched (the reason was so that the main files dont corrupt bcs of power outages, bluescreens etc and or other things that can happen to a pc with a update in progress)Ĥ. the files that have to be updated get duplicatedģ. The biggest problem that steam has is the update routine some games like ark and poe and more suffer from it greatly i did read a steam mod post once where they explained how the update worksĢ. I get rarely more then 20 - 50% from my download speed what all in all more of a inconvenience is then a problem it sucks but what can you do. Steam downloads are VERY inconsistent atm I am hooked up to an ethernet on the best region for me. Why did steam take 20 minutes when it should have taken almost 4 minutes. Divided by 250 megabits per second would be 211.2 seconds. 6.6 GB divided by 250 megabits would be 52,000 megabits. My tested download speed is 250 megabits per second. It was 6.6 GB and took roughly 20 minutes. Originally posted by tyler4897:i'm in the Seattle area, and just downloaded an ark update. ![]()
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