steam downloading problems

[hillkill]

so for some reason, steam will only download like 10 megabytes of updates then drop to 0 mb/s then never goes back up again. my download location is set to the location closest to me.

anyone had this problem and fixed it?

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[Dark X-rane]

Have you cleared your download cache?  That sometimes causes this issue.

[Planr]

this used to happen to me a lot. dunno why it stopped.

[hillkill]

Have you cleared your download cache?  That sometimes causes this issue.

that made it work for like 15 seconds then dropped back down. disk usage keeps fluctuating even though there's 0 mb/s

[Steve5451²]

Change your download location.

[hillkill]

Change your download location.

it's set closest to me already

[Insert Name Here²]

try stopping the download, reset steam fully, and try again

[hillkill]

try stopping the download, reset steam fully, and try again

tried that like 20 times

[hillkill]

it'll work for like 30 seconds when i restart steam, but will stop

[hillkill]

(triple post, i know)

apparently i can't open a ticket with steam? there's nothing on the steam support part of the site that allows me to create a ticket. they want me to select a game and find a problem with it, however a game isn't the problem.

loving horse stuff

[phflack]

I've only had my download rates drop to 0 when it's done downloading, but then needs time to install the updates

[Ipquarx]

What game is it updating/downloading? I know when I'm updating Payday 2 it'll download for a bit, then take a long time to decompress and write to the disk, then start downloading again.

[Gytyyhgfffff]

I know when I'm updating Payday 2 it'll download for a bit, then take a long time to decompress and write to the disk, then start downloading again.

in my own experience this is what happens

[Steve5451²]

it's set closest to me already

something somewhere else. I have trouble with my closest download location and setting it to a state over fixed everything.

[portify]

Does it never go back up even if you wait for a while? Do you have a slow disk? If none of the download cache or location suggestions are working, make sure Steam isn't just using the disk and waiting for that to be done.