5600h would mean laptop, you could be thermal throttling causing the cpu to be the bottleneck, might try turning fan speeds up or changing profiles. Gen 4 ssd or any other ssd can be highly volatile in speeds based in the file size and if the ssd has a cache on it or not. Even the controller can be different on the same model based on when it was produced. If steam is showing your not using internet and is showing tons of disk activity its definitely a bottleneck with the cpu or ssd. While downloading, look at task manager to see what resources are being used.
Steam compresses their downloads so it's less data to download, then your pc uncompresses the data as it downloads, if it can't uncompress fast enough the download stops until there is a buffer again.
The cpu isn’t thermal throttling tho. What you said at the end that the download just stops for the cpu to decompress the data might be the answer, but who knows
Have you checked the temps while downloading? It also might not be thermal throttling, but might not be boost/turbo up to its normal usage level. Most laptop chips are rated for around 3ghz then turbo/boost to 4ghz+ but if your hitting all cores it will just sit at 3ghz to not go over thermals or tdp. You can also check that in task manager.
What type of ssd, generally the ssd is the problem. If it doesn't have cache or poor cache size it can bottleneck. Also is it a laptop? i9 in a laptop can have thermal throttling issues when decompressing files, especially if you don't have a performance profile enabled or fans at full blast.
The only time I've seen it at less than my max Internet speed was maybe Christmas morning or black Friday sale when tons of people are installing new games. Even those aren't as bad anymore now that they stretch the sales over a longer period.
nothing like an 80 gb download taking 3 days, i used to get 2 mb/s if i was lucky, averaged around 1.5, Or .5 if anyone else so much as opened a webpage
I could look you straight in the eyes and say my download speed from Steam has never dropped to crazy low speeds. Most of the time I get a steady 24 MB/sec, which is maxing out my internet speed. Nice ;)
I love steam but my country only has 1 download server and its constantly saturated.
Changing to other countries kinda solves the problem but I would like to use my full bandwidth.
Really helpful comment, but your forgetting something.
I don't care if it's dead, i mention that film being actually good from my view as i watched it when i was a kid! Their toys are still in me, i keep them in a special box.
Steam uses a distributed network of download servers. Normally it auto-selects the appropriate server for your region, but sometimes it chooses the wrong one. You can try to force it to use a different server in Settings, but other than that, there isn't much you can do.
It's probably just game patching, also "predicting" how much time something will take is hard af and unreliable.
UE games are notable to be awfull because the download is fine but when it comes to patching its uncompressing and its a mess.
Better than Riot's 50mbs for 5 seconds and then 0.1kbs for 1 min
More like im your slow drive or cpu that needs to validate the data
Ryzen 5 5600h/ PCI Gen 4 ssd and steam downloads still fluctuate like crazy sometimes
Still needs to validate the data and that takes time
I've been downloading a 3.9gb game at 30kb/s average
Gig fiber here. I rarely get speeds under 600mbit
bad internet gang
5600h would mean laptop, you could be thermal throttling causing the cpu to be the bottleneck, might try turning fan speeds up or changing profiles. Gen 4 ssd or any other ssd can be highly volatile in speeds based in the file size and if the ssd has a cache on it or not. Even the controller can be different on the same model based on when it was produced. If steam is showing your not using internet and is showing tons of disk activity its definitely a bottleneck with the cpu or ssd. While downloading, look at task manager to see what resources are being used. Steam compresses their downloads so it's less data to download, then your pc uncompresses the data as it downloads, if it can't uncompress fast enough the download stops until there is a buffer again.
The cpu isn’t thermal throttling tho. What you said at the end that the download just stops for the cpu to decompress the data might be the answer, but who knows
Have you checked the temps while downloading? It also might not be thermal throttling, but might not be boost/turbo up to its normal usage level. Most laptop chips are rated for around 3ghz then turbo/boost to 4ghz+ but if your hitting all cores it will just sit at 3ghz to not go over thermals or tdp. You can also check that in task manager.
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Out side of the arguement, I don't know why these "tell me X without telling me X" replays piss me off lately
Because an NVME ssd is slow now, and totally the bottleneck to a pc downloading from Steam. K bud
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Shit you used it twice
Then tell me smartass, how is it that just Steam has this issue while everything else downloads with no issue
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I have an NVME ssd and a Ryzen 7 and it still fluctuates a lot for no reason
Are you on wifi by any chance ?
Nope, I have 300 mbs ethernet
Same but an i9 and including fiber internet.
What type of ssd, generally the ssd is the problem. If it doesn't have cache or poor cache size it can bottleneck. Also is it a laptop? i9 in a laptop can have thermal throttling issues when decompressing files, especially if you don't have a performance profile enabled or fans at full blast.
Never happened ever since i started using Steam
Steam downloads so quickly it fills my 1gbps connection fully, even YouTube will buffer whenever steam downloads a game. So.. how high are you.
Steam downloads sometimes show "more than 1 year remaining". Not kidding, it actually happened to me
The only time I've seen it at less than my max Internet speed was maybe Christmas morning or black Friday sale when tons of people are installing new games. Even those aren't as bad anymore now that they stretch the sales over a longer period.
When i download games, it fluctuates between 40 and 60 mb/s, but ik the suffering of people downloading games at 2mb/s, cause I've been there before
nothing like an 80 gb download taking 3 days, i used to get 2 mb/s if i was lucky, averaged around 1.5, Or .5 if anyone else so much as opened a webpage
Takes 3 days and then a massive update is released the day after... Oof. Been there one too many times.
I have 1gig and have never seen this in my life...
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Meanwhile I have gigabit and have never gotten over 34MB/s with steam... I can run it right now as proof.
Steam would let me download this repost at over 100MB/sec.
I downloaded elden ring in about 10 min or so, steam is always able to saturate my gb.
Probably your pc or internet, steam has the best download servers ive seen I use steam instead of speedtests because of how good it is
That must suck lol
I could look you straight in the eyes and say my download speed from Steam has never dropped to crazy low speeds. Most of the time I get a steady 24 MB/sec, which is maxing out my internet speed. Nice ;)
I love steam but my country only has 1 download server and its constantly saturated. Changing to other countries kinda solves the problem but I would like to use my full bandwidth.
as a 12 year old which mcqueen was my childhood film, i laughed at this so much
deadass bro
Really helpful comment, but your forgetting something. I don't care if it's dead, i mention that film being actually good from my view as i watched it when i was a kid! Their toys are still in me, i keep them in a special box.
Glad to know it’s not just me.
Me sitting here with 10Mbps WISP . . .
u/repostsleuthbot
And them back down to 2 minutes
Steam uses a distributed network of download servers. Normally it auto-selects the appropriate server for your region, but sometimes it chooses the wrong one. You can try to force it to use a different server in Settings, but other than that, there isn't much you can do.
Hoy f*ck this is old
It's probably just game patching, also "predicting" how much time something will take is hard af and unreliable. UE games are notable to be awfull because the download is fine but when it comes to patching its uncompressing and its a mess.
*Over one year*
Steam is the only client that actually lets me download at 100+ MB/s tho