Can anybody tell me why my steam does this?

[Jeremy Esela]

Can anybody tell me why my steam does this?

 

[Drew Leonard]

should probably specify what is steam is "doing" in this pic lol

 

[Jeremy Esela]

look how it downloads

 

[Ron Barchuk]

Everything that downloads is up and down. I don't see what the issue is?

 

[Jeremy Esela]

it will download continuously like it should then just stop, and drop down to 0MB and sometimes download at 500 to 600 KBs

 

[Jeremy Esela]

then back up to the speed it should be

 

[Naphone Jinn Sa]

It uses p2p so dl of games are not consistent

 

[Jeremy Esela]

its not my laptop or my internet as everything else works fine

 

[Naphone Jinn Sa]

Basically after a pack is done from one user it connectd to someone else to dl another pack

 

[Naphone Jinn Sa]

And of course everyones internet is not the same

 

[Jeremy Esela]

Damn I didn't know steam worked like that

 

[Rick Kidder]

It's normal, you're fine.

 

[Drew Leonard]

also depends on the game. they still have files on servers as well or else nobody could preload a game. bo3 is probably pretty low priority after the years

 

[Rūdolfs Jorens Baltiņš-Kļava]

It is normal steam installation process(it downloads, extracts, checks integrity, installs and downloads next block and does the same)

 

[James French]

Thats wifi for ya dont know why people still use it on their computers

 

[Rūdolfs Jorens Baltiņš-Kļava]

That's not wifi issue LoL, btw 5G over optical connection

 

[Dan Medved]

I just downloaded over 100gb last night and mine never acted like that nor has it ever. This 'extract-integrity-pack' that a couple of you have mentioned sounds like BS. This just looks like a shit internet plan and a slow drive.

 

[Søren Sønderholt Christiansen]

If you know how harddrives work, you'll know why it does this. Eventually after your drives have been used for a while, Steam has to allocate the space for the files you're about to install / download. When you delete something from a harddrive, it doesn't remove it. It only marks the thing you removed as overwriteable. So when you have to download and install new things, you computer goes over the harddrive and finds enough of these spots to download your file. That's what allocating is essentially.

 

[Richard Robert Kershaw]

Ok. As steam downloads it installs at the same time. The blue is the download the green is the hdd installing. The amount of data coming down is packed. So needs to be unpacked then installed piece by piece and your download is waiting for the hdd to catch up.

 

[Adam Murray]

Just depends on server traffic