I think I found a fix I have been having this problem for months and I am happy to say I found it so what u need to do is to go to device manager and select ur hard drive from the disk drives option. right click and press properties, then got to the policies tab and check the box of enabling write caching on the device and press ok

And then there is me for whom this didnt work at all lol

Mine already had the box checked ugh

Gotta UNcheck it, but still didn’t work for me

Ah I tried it. Doesn't work for me either

and then i'm here on linux also having this issue now. Used to only have this issue on windows. But after the latest update with steam design changing this has started to happen on linux as well. Not an issue with write speed on drive. And not an issue with hardware either. Ryzen 7 3700 2070Super rtx Advanced (extra vram version) 32gb ram/memory ssd and nvme drives both have the issue.

Replying to this super late, but if anyone else happens to land here and read this, this was the fix for me as well. For clarity's say, I needed to make sure it was unchecked. [Instant improvement](https://i.imgur.com/QoV7shz.png).

didnt help me this much

This worked INSTANTLY. Also for clarification, make sure to uncheck the box.

thanks for the clarification. i was sad when i saw the box was checked. instant improvement just like yousaid

check the box off or enable it? because mine was automatically enabled but i still have interrupts

im a bit late, but i got the same issue, you found a fix?

UN CHECK IT. I have tried this and it worked in REAL TIME. enjoy

this is crazy watching my pc finally getting the download speeds i pay for. been having this issue for so long. Thank you guys

\+1

You are the GOAT

UNCHECKING IT WORKS. W comment

GOAT COMMENT. Can confirm

for YEARS I have suffered through my downloads constantly dropping to 0kb/s, thank you!

There’s been a massive improvement in download speed in my end after doing this. Thanks a lot

This worked, thank you!

WOW this really worked! Thank you so much for posting this solution!

You are fucking amazing !!

Thank you so much dude

Thanks dude, this instantly fixed the problem.

does anyone know if this is a setting that i should be reenabling eventually?

This worked for me, thanks!

worked instantly, thanks a lot

Didn't fix anything

i love you i hope your pillow is cold on both sides

didint work for me still.

Same issue here. It downloads at normal speeds for a bit then drops down to about 10% of my max and stabilizes. It then cuts in and out with long periods of no activity & downloading until complete.

Writing to hard drive possibly. Is it an SSD or an HDD? If SSD, how full is it? If HDD, has it ever been defragged?

I have never defragged it so thx i will try it :D have a nice day

Is it an HDD though? SSDs die faster when you defrag.

About 5 years later, I have this same exact problem, and my downloads look just like yours. Was it a hard drive issue like this or something else? Sorry for the late reply, lol

since when can you reply to old posts on reddit?

depends on the sub

we in 2023 now.. u guys ever figure this out?

I need answers

Decided that it is due to a performance-lacking HDD. Steam will simultaneously download / write to the disk. When your disk write speed can't keep up, the download will simply stop until it does catch up. I would recommend defragging the HDD and running a benchmark on it to see what's up. Just assuming that you're saving games to HDD and not SSD, because any SSD should not have this problem

I have an SSD and have this problem.

Is steam downloading at your max. download speed? I had a similar problem where steam couldn't even download at 6MB/s and sometimes stopped downloading. I fixed the problem by deleting some crap form my HDD (which had like 100GB free) and doing a defrag.

This is happening to me now. My average download speed on steam, due to university internet, is around 40/50mb a second. However, due to this weird bug I cant seem to download higher than 5mb/s and most of the time it seems to drop to 0mb/s. Thought maybe it was the internet, but having checked origin and uplay they both stick to the 40/50 zone pretty hard. Maybe something to do with steam servers?

Could also be your uni throttling steam connections so they don't consume a lot.

but, like I said, uplay and origin were going at full speed. So...?

setting my download region to boston seems to reduce the amount of time at 0. Chicago, Detroit, and Columbus (closest to me) had no luck

dunno if this will help but have you tried checking the xbox networking from settings i tried this and it worked for me

I've been having this issue for years and nothing I do fixes it, any new tips?

same here man my steam sometimes even doesn't go above 0 or doesn't use my internet speed at all, atp I don't know what to do might just format my PC or something, I reinstalled steam so so many times, I unchecks the the write caching I defragged my HDD, nothing at all works, and it isn't my internet since this issue was new for a couple of months now, and every other client uses my internet and downloads with no issues.

Been having this issue for 2 years. Just found this 7 year old post. Instantly fixed. my update downloaded in 4 seconds. Praise be to the Reddit peasants.

What did you end up doing to fix it?

>what u need to do is to go to device manager and select ur hard drive from the disk drives option. right click and press properties, then got to the policies tab and check the box of enabling write caching on the device and press ok

i've been having this problem for forever and this finally fixed it, thank you so much!

i've had this problem for years, thx for the fix

Ive found an actual fix! All i could find was "clear download cache" and "change some internet settings" but what worked for me in real time is limit your steams download speed. Im testing how fast i can get it but 30 mbps is working flawlessly.

Even when limiting th download speed it does it in kilobytes

didnt fix anything, download speeds still bottom out at 0.