Anyone else run into this? (steam problems)

[LordJerle]

So I decided it would be best to do a clean install of Skyrim with my new system, fresh start and all that, and the download keeps starting and stopping.  When it's going, it goes nicely, but it'll just kick off and then kick back on again.  Is it just me, or is this a common problem?  I've never really sat around and watched Steam download before.

[Guest Plastrader]

That happend to me once.

After a few days Steam died on me.

So I had to rename "ClientRegistry.blob" to "ClientRegistry.blob.somethingelseofyourchoise"

This will force steam to find another server which the client connects to.

 

Might be worth a try.

[Lehshara]

As @Plastrader said, renaming the file should help.

 

Oh, and if you will have slow dl speed change ya download region: {Steam} >> [settings] >> [Downloads+Cloud] >> (Download Region)

 

Other possible fix (from Steam forums):
 

"You need to change your Uni-code language to English, once again Uni-code
language not system language or anything."

 

 

[LordJerle]

Upon further investigation, it was actually due to my roommate downloading steam games at the same time as me.  Don't know why it wouldn't just lower the download speed, but yeah.  I had given him a hard drive from my old PC, and he was feverishly downloading some of the games he had deleted because of his tiny 250 gig hard drive filling up so fast lol.  Very annoying, but good to know for the future.

[polluxval]

i had once a problem with steamworkshop. the crap didnt wanted to redowload my favorited mods. it toke me a month to fix it.

[Guest Plastrader]

Upon further investigation, it was actually due to my roommate downloading steam games at the same time as me.

So he was hogging the internets was he?

It could have been the gnomes...

[GreyDeath]

Upon further investigation, it was actually due to my roommate downloading steam games at the same time as me.  Don't know why it wouldn't just lower the download speed, but yeah.  I had given him a hard drive from my old PC, and he was feverishly downloading some of the games he had deleted because of his tiny 250 gig hard drive filling up so fast lol.  Very annoying, but good to know for the future.

 

check both your pc and your freinds pc to make sure your ports are enabled for file transfer.... the biggest issue with DLing from steam is , if both pc's have the same ports available for port forwarding then you will have a stutter issue to change this either on your pc or your freinds pc you will need to close down a set of your ports and enable a new set for steam then you will have your own port threads for your pc and not as a pair of pc's...Steam doesn't look at your ports and compair to IP's as individual pc's it instead looks at both PC's as one PC on the same line ...hope this helps you understand