#HOW TO MAKE STEAM DOWNLOAD FASTER UPDATE#
#HOW TO MAKE STEAM DOWNLOAD FASTER FREE#
#HOW TO MAKE STEAM DOWNLOAD FASTER WINDOWS#

You can add more in Steam -> Settings -> Downloads -> 'STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS'.

Make sure you use default media directory. I will try reinstalling it all on the larger disk and see if it still works if steam client is installed on another disk than the system disk.Д«ut there you have one posible solution. Not sure if downloading to you default media riectory is the trick or if it was downloading to the same disk the Steam library and binaries are on is the trick. I choosed to download to default media directory. And then instead of choosing my large 1.3TB partiotion that I have set aside for games on another disk (that is not symlinked, bind mounted or anything and has the barrier=0 option. Now I tried to download a new game I just bought from the store. But it is a really small disk (80 GB, it has been my system disk for a VERY long time). I have installed the steam client and all its libraries to my main system disk. But since the problem is somewhere in the 'write and fix data onto the disk' department I have a hard time seeing dnsmasq fixing it.Д«ut if you get it up and running and it solves your issue I sure would like som notes on what you did. When my Steam client is actually downloading I get great speeds. And downloading the data is not the problem in this case. Mainly because what it does is to cache DNS querys locally on your macinge.

However dnsmasq does not improve downloading games. Not sure if this is just working, or if it is working as a result of dnsmasq.

#HOW TO MAKE STEAM DOWNLOAD FASTER UPDATE#

The whole update download tok a couple of seconds. And yes, it does fix the issue where it takes 1 min a click when you are browsing in the Store part of the Steam client.ДЄlso, updating the client itself goes really fast. I have dnsmasq (full, caching enabled one) up and running. Someone mentioned that using a package called 'dnsmasq' would fix this, but I couldn't get it to work. Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release_Дriver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 660 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 It is beta, but I have already tried stable, and gives exactly the same symptoms. Got same download speeds and same symptom of it getting stuck in Writing to disk, while iotop shows that not particulary much is happening on the disk.Д«elow is my System information running Steam client API v017, package version 1419038262.

#HOW TO MAKE STEAM DOWNLOAD FASTER WINDOWS#

Result below: PIDДownloaded and setup steam windows client with wine. I tried to test if the disk would show similar bad performance with other tasks, so I used caja to simply copy a folder containing about 13 GB of data in a couple of files.

#HOW TO MAKE STEAM DOWNLOAD FASTER FREE#

Running an ext4 filesystem that has about 1.3 TB of free space, 4.4 GB of used and is solely used for Steam games. My disk is local, mounted with barrier=0. I have seen quite a few of these googling the internet, but no real fix. home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/tier1/./tier1/fileio.cpp (2965) : Assertion Failed: Failed to determine free disk space for, error 2

How to make steam download faster