Steam Wont Download Game Connection Timed Out
Is it possible to limit the download rate/bandwidth used by Steam in some way? When I am downloading a game it greatly slows down or even blocks all internet activities in my house.
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This is a common type of error that can occur any time a game is updated or installed on Steam. Clearing the Steam download cache will cause the Steam client to flush. Outlined above, it is possible that something outside of Steam is responsible. It is a good idea to test the issue by connecting to an entirely different.
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Yes as of May 2013. http://store.steampowered.com/news/10548/
Added rate-limiting of Steam game downloads, via Settings -> Downloads
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I don't believe Valve provide an option to do that. The Connection Type setting that Corv1nus mentions appears to have no effect.
You may find it easier to install a piece of software able to rate limit other programs than to use QoS. I just tested NetBalancer (free version) with Steam on Windows 7 and it works flawlessly. If you too are using Windows 7, you can safely ignore the warning about unsigned drivers; at least you can if you trust the software publisher.
The consensus of a somewhat rude thread on the Steam Forums is that you can't rate limit Steam from within Steam. Your options seem to be:
- Pause downloads, then start them again at a better time, say overnight.
- Limit it using the free version of NetBalancer, as Lee suggests.
- Limit it using other software, as someone suggested in the Steam Forum thread. Sadly, the program suggested is not free.
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You can go into Settings >> Downloads >> Connection Type and say it is something lower than it is but, I don't know if that will limit it. You would be better off putting a bandwidth limit on your PC at the router and set up QoS.
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Steam Wont Download Game Connection Timed Out Of Computer
Since the last patch, Dota2 has sat in my Downloads section not downloading anything. It showed I had 0 of a 0 sized update, and was just permanently 'Starting'. The game wouldn't load until it finished downloading the update it wasn't starting.
I left it doing that for a week or so (?) hoping it would sort itself, but it didn't.
I have also tried :
- Restarting Steam
- Restarting my PC
- Deleting Clientregistry.blob
- Verifying game cache
- Changing my download location
- Applying the Steam Beta
- Deleting the game files and attempting to redownload from scratch
- Running CCleaner after uninstalling Dota2 (as was suggested on some other similar forum thread)
I now have Dota2 sat greyed out in my Library, but clicking Install just causes it to sit on 'Preparing Dota2 files for install...' for a few minutes before popping up the error message 'An error occurred while installing Dota 2 (Connection timeout)'.
Other Steam games have merrily been installed, downloaded and patched while this was going on. Dota2 Test also installs and downloads.
Suggestions welcome.