Steam Takes Forever To Download Game

Shouldn't be that slow unless you live in a cave or suchlike. Now, you said you were downloading the orange box. If by that, you mean you're downloading TF2, Half-Life 2, HL2 Episodes 1 & 2 and Portal at the same time. No matter what your connection speed, trying to download 5 games at the same time will, believe it or not, divide it between all of them. For example, if your average connection speed was 5mbps-ish (something I can only dream of, living in a tiny little market town), each game would download at around 1mbps. Of course, anything else you do, like, say, starting threads asking why your download is taking so long, will further detract from the bandwidth available to each game, increasing the download time. Just sayin'.
The only thing I can recommend is to pause all but one of the downloads so that you can get one of the games a bit faster. I'd recommend HL2 first, as it's good and long and you'll be able to play that to pass the time while the others download.

Games, steam, and computer take forever to load. Thread starter Tw1tchyy; Start date Oct 30, 2014; Forums. Then I have had steam trying to open for 2 hours and it is still trying to load my profile, and none of my games load, tried league of legends as well and it wouldn't load. I have no idea what to do. I defragmented disks to clear up space (even though I had plenty for the game) and tried ending processes on the task manager but none of it seems to help. I'm not sure what to try next. Message 2 of 7 (10,751 Views) Reply. 0 Re: Origin takes forever to download games. Macbook pro it only took me about 5 minutes to download the sims3.

*EDIT* might have taken a little too long to write that, but the post's still valid, methinks.

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“I’m drowning in my game backlog! Is there any way to back up Steam games without waiting forever to download them again?” Thomas S.

Steam packs a lot of useful features into its client software, including game backups, although you can always do it yourself once you know where Valve buries the bodies during installation.

Official client backups begin on the Steam menu via the library view. Select “Backup and Restore…” and pick “Backup currently installed programs” from the next dialog.

You’ll be presented with a window that lists all of your installed Steam software. Check the games going on ice and proceed. Right clicking installed games directly from the library listing also works; just select “Backup Game File…” as a shortcut. Use shift or control for multiple selection with this method.

Backup location and archive size come next. In addition to picking a device with sufficient remaining space, keep in mind some older file systems such as Fat32 have inherent file size limitations (4GB, in Fat32's case). Consider converting these devices to newer file systems such as NTFS when possible. Modern file systems have plenty of advantages beyond big backups.

Archive processing takes about a minute or two per gigabyte depending on the system and the files being compressed. Once finished you’ll be presented with the option of opening the backup folder and given basic instructions on restoration.

Restoring Steam backups reverses the process. Select “Restore a previous program…” from the Steam menu “Backup and Restore Games…” option, and select the folder where the backup was stored. You will see all backups kept in this location reflected in the next window as confirmation. Steam validates backups, a process that frequently takes as long as compressing the files in the first place, so be patient for larger games.

If the wait to compress backups and validate them later bothers you, there’s an alternative worth considering. Steam stores game files in a subfolder that’s user accessible, although the default location is buried a few layers deep in “C:Program Files (x86)SteamSteamAppscommon”.

If you don’t mind giving up disk space for speed and easy access, you can simply copy the entire game folder to an archive device directly. This skips the compression and validation process entirely although the restoration process is less guided than Steam’s built-in feature. If you intend to remove the games after backup, do this via Steam’s “Delete Local Content” option rather than deleting them on the desktop.

Steam Game Takes Forever To Download

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