Try restarting the download.
If that doesn't work try this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=380Mh4jqs14
If that doesn't work try this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=380Mh4jqs14
Steam, Origin, Epic, Twitch, Good*, *Games Sales [2007-2021]
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DuckThor Evil
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Can't download the stuff I bought at all... I tried three different locations, hours apart. Says "steam servers are busy, try again later"
That BS and the issues with the Witcher patches makes my focus go back to retail, even Steam works It pretty much always gives me crap DL speeds.
That BS and the issues with the Witcher patches makes my focus go back to retail, even Steam works It pretty much always gives me crap DL speeds.
Steam servers being tad bit overloaded during the sale is kind of obvious. Though that didn't stop me from migrating Steam from 200G HDD over to 750G and downloading nearly everything I had on my account to it during the sales over about 4 days and nearly fill the drive 
You can try changing to another download server perhaps? I got best results with Netherlands. It mostly gave me around 2.5-3.5MByte/s but at one evening it gave me around 10MB/s for several hours. Most others I tried, including Finland, rarely went over 1MB/s.
You can try changing to another download server perhaps? I got best results with Netherlands. It mostly gave me around 2.5-3.5MByte/s but at one evening it gave me around 10MB/s for several hours. Most others I tried, including Finland, rarely went over 1MB/s.
It does that for me too sometimes, damned if I know why. Most often happens with automatic updates, I'll go to the download screen and see something just sitting there, suspended, and from the date of the update it might have been like that for days even, and when resuming it'll just get stuck again.
Just yesterday I had an update suspending itself IMMEDIATELY after unpausing it. Immediately! Over and ovr and over. I restarted steam, then it fixed itself.
So it seems to have some connection to wether the steam client is newly started or not, it seems. At least for me.
Steam desperately need a way for customers to indicate they have the same problem with a game ... sure, they can't afford to provide support for individual issues on old games ... but I'm trying to play CoH now and I see a lot of people with the exact same problem as me, and clearly an installer issue (localization can get thoroughly fucked up). If I could just bump one of them with "I also have this problem" Valve could put in a threshold to at least be notified of atrocious problems.
One of these days they are going to get sued over the level of support they provide ...
One of these days they are going to get sued over the level of support they provide ...
It's a nice place for users to help users, but I doubt anyone at Valve reads them.
Steam sales stir the inner gaming pack rat collector inside, no doubt. Not exactly the best week to download the whole collection tho...didn't stop me from migrating Steam from 200G HDD over to 750G and downloading nearly everything I had on my account to it during the sales over about 4 days and nearly fill the drive
For me, I buy something, it reminds me of something else I have, I want to download both, then I remember something else.... It's a pyramid downloading disaster.
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Like I said I tried three different locations and few hours in between. In the past I've tried many more in a desperate attempt to get decent speeds. Not too big of a fan of the service. If the server is too crowded, which is pretty messed up imo, how about putting me on some queue that downloads it for me after it's my turn, without me having to go press install every now and then, only to get a message "thanks for the money, but we can't deliver you the goods at this moment, please put something huge in your ahole and try again later"
This is useful
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/
I connected to some overseas servers to try to get some speed. I noticed that some of the big Euro servers lost most of their load during the night over there. It was faster than the 100KB/s of Chicago. Chicago seemed to be imploding under the pressure as sometimes downloads would just stop for a time.
Valve needs to about double their infrastructure for these sales events somehow.
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/
I connected to some overseas servers to try to get some speed. I noticed that some of the big Euro servers lost most of their load during the night over there. It was faster than the 100KB/s of Chicago. Chicago seemed to be imploding under the pressure as sometimes downloads would just stop for a time.
Valve needs to about double their infrastructure for these sales events somehow.
Buy more stuff from them.
Can I let others take care of that?
Is anyone else having problems connecting to Steam? I updated the steam client with today's patch and then asked me to re-login (why?). Now it keeps saying my account name or password are incorrect. If I try to "retrieve a lost account" and provide my account name it says my account does not exist.
I checked their forums and while they do have a scheduled maintenance for today they say it's at 2PM PST and should only take a few minutes. That was 1.5 hours ago.
I checked their forums and while they do have a scheduled maintenance for today they say it's at 2PM PST and should only take a few minutes. That was 1.5 hours ago.
Crap. [strike]I can login on my other desktop (haven't installed the july 12th update there)[/strike] (not anymore) but not on this one nor on the website. When retrieving lost account not knowing the account name Steam is supposed to send you an email address with your account name. I get that email alright, the account name field is blank.
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