I've resorted to restarting my computer every few minutes to get a few hundred megabytes out of the servers.
Alright, so long story short, I've been trying to download and update some of my games and before this week, I've never had a problem.īut now, the download consistently takes forever by stopping and restarting. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
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So on average this pc is used for 2 to 3 hours a week wich is not excessive imo.Menu Menu. Sometimes I play a few days in one week and sometimes I don't play for weeks.
I have a normal pc that is permanently connected to my TV. Windows disk check says there is nothing wrong with it.
Being extremely fragmented, might also be possible but i doubt that with GB free space. But tonight it was only 1 game that took 36 min to allocate! Hybrid drives can behave a little differently from conventional caching drives, so that's good to know.Įither its stuck - shut down the process and retry, or your drive is failing due to wear and tear or other malfunction. I thought it might had something to do with 4 or 5 games ready for download at the same time. The strange part is I never had this before only the last few weeks. I only have 1 hybrid disk so I can not try the other option but thanks for your suggestions. Back up is only when not in use and my antivirus was not scanning. Steam will find the existing game files including saves, DLC, bonus content, etc. You can delete the game's local content and then click Install, pointing it to the library on the HDD. If you're dealing with limited space, such as on an SD, you can download to one Steam library more quickly, play it there, then copy the game to your HDD later to free up space. If you have multiple disks, you can try creating a steam library on another disk and seeing if it performs any better. With fragmentation ruled out, I'd check for other disk activity - disk backups or antivirus scans going on at the same time, for example, will distract your computer from allocating space for the game. I'm sure that a SSD would do much better, but I don't think it means anything is "broken". I have a regular generic HDD, so I don't think it's really a drive issue. It happens to me when downloading some games, while other games are fine. If it is a HDD, a defrag should be in order.īut yeah, if a game has a zillion small files, allocating them can take a looooooong time. Can't say about Seagate i got WD but normally most would just scan and not try to change or fix anything and should be safe. Thanks I will do the Seagate test but it says to backup first as if there is a problem there is no way back and you have to replace the disk directly if I understand correctly Well that is a bit aggressive as I just want to try my new game atm but I will do it when I have some more time and a very good backup. You said you already defragged, so that can't be it. Most companies like WD will have one of their own, you can do a light surface scan, a good deep scan can take hours.ĭepends also how old the drive is, if it's brand new, less chance, if it's already a couple of years. By now it is allocating free disk space for over half an hour! This is driving me crazy. Please provide a step-by-step process of how the bug can be reproduced.I have a descent PC and fast internet but lately allocating disk space is taking ages. Please provide a fix! This is so enfuriating! I know I’m not the only one with this issue either. And that’s whenever Funcom releases an update.
The only fix is me having to completely re-install the game + all DLC’s + mods which is 100 gigs that takes me about 6 hours. Validating does not work, restarting steam does not work, restarting my PC does not work.
I do not have this with mod downloads, just vanilla game updates. I have waited once, for 4 hours and it just did NOT continue. Server type: [Enter one of the following: PvPĮverytime FunCom has an update, even a minor one I take hours to preallocate, and when it is done it gets stuck at 28.6 MB when the download is like 40MB and it just does not resume. Game mode: [Enter game mode here: (Custom RP PvPe Server)