My Steam downloads

ddalton

Reputable
Aug 25, 2014
15
0
4,510
Ever since I got my new I7 4770k whenever I start downloading games on steam my computer lags and it is impossible to do anything while its downloading games, updates etc.
I checked to see if it was Norton causing the problem, turned it off, no change
 
Solution
Are you downloading them to your C: drive? If you have a good internet connection and are installing to a machanical drive the drive may be consumed with writing data, causing read performance to decrease dramatically. I have had this happen on a slightly older 2tb drive, but having the OS on a SSD (or even just another drive alltogether) would help.


Its the entire system
 
Are you downloading them to your C: drive? If you have a good internet connection and are installing to a machanical drive the drive may be consumed with writing data, causing read performance to decrease dramatically. I have had this happen on a slightly older 2tb drive, but having the OS on a SSD (or even just another drive alltogether) would help.
 
Solution