- Nov 8, 2013
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This problem is driving me nuts and I've tried everything I can. I'm going to try to include everything wrong and everything I've tried in my first spin at this but I may miss something.
First, the problem. I have 100Mbit internet, and Steam's current peak D/L speed is 1.2 MB/s. I do understand that there's a difference between MB and Mb, so in actuality my D/L speed is 10 Mb/s, and essentially 1/10th my D/L speed. This speed lasts for, at most, a second or two, but I think I'm getting ahead of myself there.
What happens is I'll begin to download a game, and it'll begin at its peak speed, and taper off relatively gradually to 0b/s, about 2 minutes or so is what it takes, never gaining speed usually, just fading out. Every now and then it'll hit a new peak after it's been "downloading" at 0b/s, and start over.
Every now and then it won't hit 0 and it'll start over multiple times, doing the same thing but never quite making it to 0. That's the example I've shown in yellow on the above image.
The attempts I've made to solve this:
Every thing on this list besides moving the game folder to a different hard drive. Foremost because I don't have a second hard drive that has the performance nor space needed to use it. Now that I think of it, I'll do a read/write test with some software and post results in a later reply. Also, just to hit on it because I think it's important, I've tried switching the download server quite a few times, all to different servers. Once it worked for about 10 minutes at full speed, but I'd done almost everything on that list at that time, so it really could have been anything.
I also tried stopping a service called DiagTrack as mentioned in this video. It seems to work for a lot of people judging by the ratings on the video itself so I'm almost at a standstill here.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Edit:
I don't know much about disk read/write speeds. I tested it with this software I've had on my PC forever from some old drive testing.
Here's the drive in question, just to see if the test speeds and the drive's capabilities match up.
First, the problem. I have 100Mbit internet, and Steam's current peak D/L speed is 1.2 MB/s. I do understand that there's a difference between MB and Mb, so in actuality my D/L speed is 10 Mb/s, and essentially 1/10th my D/L speed. This speed lasts for, at most, a second or two, but I think I'm getting ahead of myself there.
What happens is I'll begin to download a game, and it'll begin at its peak speed, and taper off relatively gradually to 0b/s, about 2 minutes or so is what it takes, never gaining speed usually, just fading out. Every now and then it'll hit a new peak after it's been "downloading" at 0b/s, and start over.
Every now and then it won't hit 0 and it'll start over multiple times, doing the same thing but never quite making it to 0. That's the example I've shown in yellow on the above image.
The attempts I've made to solve this:
Every thing on this list besides moving the game folder to a different hard drive. Foremost because I don't have a second hard drive that has the performance nor space needed to use it. Now that I think of it, I'll do a read/write test with some software and post results in a later reply. Also, just to hit on it because I think it's important, I've tried switching the download server quite a few times, all to different servers. Once it worked for about 10 minutes at full speed, but I'd done almost everything on that list at that time, so it really could have been anything.
I also tried stopping a service called DiagTrack as mentioned in this video. It seems to work for a lot of people judging by the ratings on the video itself so I'm almost at a standstill here.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Edit:
I don't know much about disk read/write speeds. I tested it with this software I've had on my PC forever from some old drive testing.
Here's the drive in question, just to see if the test speeds and the drive's capabilities match up.
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