If you're having these issues but not with these 2 specific games, try Googling your issue and the specific game to see if masses of other people are experiencing the same issues with the same game. If these issues occur for you specifically in either of these games and no other game, it is most likely because of the file system of those games and you just have to wait it out and there is likely no issue on your side. 2 examples are Payday 2 and Path of Exile.

it doesn't mean that there is an issue present that needs to be immediately fixed, sometimes these things just happen as your drive is processing the download (whether it be scanning/processing incoming files, allocating space, unpacking and processing a finished download, etc) and usually go away after about 15 minutes of waiting, but if you have a bad drive and/or CPU this can happen more often and for longer periods at a time this is called drive throttling and is expanded upon in the section below this one.įootnote: Some specific games on Steam are infamous for causing these issues. If a download suddenly drops down to 0 download rate, is stuck at 0 bytes downloaded out of X GB, is stuck at 100% downloaded, etc. Do not immediately assume there is an issue

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