Why is this a thing, I'm not not sure but that is on Steam's end. Likewise, Bastion downloaded at about 10 or so and PSO2 was at about 10-20. For example, I just downloaded Superdimension Neptunia vs SEGA Hard Girls at 46MB/s, but Fallout 4 is maxing at 22 on the same machine immediately after the Nepnep finished downloading. Some games seem to be hosted on servers that are slower than others.

This one is where I think a lot of the issue comes from. Make sure your equipment can actually handle the speeds. A lot of people don't notate this properly when asking for help or researching. A 500Mb/s download would equate to roughly 60 megabytes. Steam downloads In a megabyte download, which is 8x larger than a megabit. Obviously this affects speeds and it needs to be known if you are looking at MB/s (megaBYTES) or Mb/s (megaBITS) as there is a factor of 8 difference. If you're paying for 35Mb/s and steam shows you're only downloading games at 4 - 5 MB/s, that's correct.ġMB (megabytes) is 8Mb's (Megabits), whatever speed you're paying for from your internet provider, divide that by 8 and you will have your download speed.įrom what I gather with my own similar situation and other notes, there are multiple factors that come into play, some more obvious than others.

If if it's not the hard drive launch task manager and if your cpu is at 99% - 100% then you're being bottlenecked by the amount of data your processor can handle.Īs said below, it could be an app like killer wifi and make sure you're reading the right download speed. If you're downloading a game and you have a slow download speed compared to what you should be getting -Ĭheck to make sure it's being downloaded into an M.2 NVME hard drive, I have a i9 9900k and if i download a game on my NVME +900Mb/s / +112MB/s it will use 99% of my CPU, if you have anything less than a 9900k i'm going to guess it will limit your download speed too. If you are downloading it via hdd it will cap at around 15MB/s to 30MB/s (120Mb/s to 240Mb/s) if you download it via Nvme it wont cap and you can download it at the full 900Mb/sĮdit: i also learnt the your CPU can limit the download to. Steam caps your download speed to your hard drives write speed (speeds will and do vary drastically).

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