Steam keeps trying to update a 0 bytes update. Not sure what's causing this, after it finished a 7.2mb download it then tried to install a 0 bytes download and it just keeps looping unless I tell Steam to stop updating this game. I've had this problem for 4-5 days now.
Steam defines itself as 'the ultimate entertainment platform.' Its software, available for PC, Mac, and mobile devices, allows people to 'play, connect, [and] create.' Its gaming library has more than 2,000 titles and it has approximately 40 million users. If you're one of those 40 million, you know what a pain it can be to wait for a game to update or for a new one to download -- it's not the speediest process.
Here's how to make the wait time a little less painful:
- Re: Why am I only getting 1.8MB/s download speed from Steam? 1.8 MBps (mega Bytes per second) works out to about 14.4 Mbps (mega bits per second). Whiel not quite 18, its a lot better than what you think.
- Trying to download game and it is stuck at 0 bytes, I have 100 download speed and usually get 11mbs on steam. 2019-03-14 07:49.
- Trying to download a game, in your case Cities: Skylines, at that speed would take, as Steam says, a year. I assume that the reason behind the apparent 0 bytes per second disk usage in Steam is because of the exceptionally slow download speed.
- Well, say you have ten large files, say a gigabyte each, and you change maybe 2 MB in each. When Steam's building each of those files, it'll have to download 2 MB of new chunks, and copy 998 MB of existing chunks from your existing install, per file. Total download winds up at 20 MB, but you end up copying nearly 10 GB.
- I'm trying to download updates, but to no avail. Network usage stays on 0 bytes/s. If I restart Steam, the download will resume for a few seconds then it'll fall back to 0. I tried deleting Steam cache---nothing. I tried changing my region---nothing. My absolute last resort is reinstalling Steam.
How to download torrent on a blocked network. Open the Steam settings page. This can be accessed by right-clicking the Steam icon in the system tray and selecting Settings from the menu that appears.
In the Settings window, there will be many tabs full of all sorts of options and settings that you can play with. The settings we're interested in are under the Downloads + Cloud tab.
Two of the settings here can help increase your download speed. First, make sure the drop-down labeled 'Approximate speed of your Internet connection' is properly set to, well, the approximate speed of your Internet connection.
Second, play around with the Download region drop-down settings. Standard ahci controller driver. Your best bet is going to be the closest location to you, but factors like the internet connection between you and that location or volume of traffic to that server may tip the scale in the favor of a server further away.
Adjusting these settings will require you to restart your Steam client before the changes come into effect. Hopefully you'll notice faster download speeds after the restart. If there's no change -- or worse, your connection seems slower -- play around more with the download region setting until you find a reliable, low-traffic server.
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Numerous people have been having this problem, where Steam will not download games correctly. It will start the download, then it slows to a crawl until it completely stops. I have found two reasons so far as to why this could be happening. One is that Steam is writing to the disk to aggressively, and it stresses out fsync, therefore stopping the download. Another one is that it asks why too many calls to DNS (10 a second), and this will cause it to just stop the download.
Steam Download 0 Bytes Fix
I was wondering if any of you know about this, and maybe have some sort of way to fix this. The fsync theory has a workaround that involves putting 'barrier=0' in your fstab options for your drive. I did this, with no success. It still refuses to download.
The DNS theory has a workaround which includes using a package called 'dnsmasq' to cache the DNS calls, so it doesn't stop the download. I tried dnsmasq with no success. When I set it up, it didn't download at all. My internet worked, but I couldn't download any Steam games. So that didn't work either. I may have set it up wrong, but I followed the dnsmasq Arch wiki page, so I can't imagine that I did.
Any suggestions? Valve has known about this for over a year and haven't done anything about it, so this is the last place I can think of to ask for help. I tried the Valve github, Steam forums, all to no avail.
Last edited by shoober420 (2014-10-17 00:44:53)