I recently had to go through a bunch of hoops in order to 'upgrade' my old Win10 to the Anniversary Edition in order to install the graphics drivers for my new 1070 FTW. I was able to eventually get it to install on my computer and my graphics card's drivers.
So, here's my problem: I was pre-loading Mankind Divided yesterday morning no problem. I left for work, and when I came back in the late afternoon I found that my computer had restarted for some reason (I think it was updates but not sure) and that my download had stopped at 19.9/22.3GB. So I tried to restart the download, it started going at like 1.7MB/s, and after 10 secs it just completely dropped to 0, and disk usage started dropping to 0. Then my system started freezing, apps were lagging horribly, and my taskbar would not respond (but the Windows icons/shortcuts would).
I tried changing Server Regions, running Windows Repair Tool, and deleting the Steam Download Cache all to no avail. So I re-installed the Windows 10 Anniversary Edition using a burned DVD with the iso. I started the download again this morning, it was running fine at 2MB/s for like 10 mins, and when I checked on it right before I left for work...it had dropped to 0 on the network (but disk usage was still going, although it was low). It was at 20.8GB.
What the hell is going on? I've never had bandwidth/ISP issues with Steam downloads prior to this, I've never had to throttle my downloads speeds (I put it at 1MB/s), and I've never encountered this problem in general...which makes me think it's related to Windows but before I wipe it all and do a clean install I want to see if there is another fix.
try creating a NEW steam directory ! I had a similar problem, the downloads stopped because the cache could not install in steam apps ???? (never found out exactly why). New directory, and everything started to work again fine. Something about steam could not find the install directory under the right name ????
funny it DID happen after an update, but in windows 7 pro !
Not sure I'm fully understanding what you mean by creating a new directory for Steam.
My OS Drive is an SSD and my bulk storage is an HDD. I have a junction created between Steamapps on my SSD (C Drive) and steamapps on my HDD (F Drive) so that I can move stuff around with Steam Mover and the like. I mostly install games onto the HDD unless it's something like Skyrim or TW3 or something.
Where would this new directory go and what exactly do you mean by creating a new one?
When you install a new game you have the choice of choosing existing repositories or creating a new one , create a new one ! or delete the game with problems and re-install them using, if possible a different directory. I NEVER used steam mover, I uninstall and then re download and re install.
The Deus Ex thing was unlocking and installing the pre-load, even though Steam was still saying it was downloading. Mine was "pre-loaded" at 19.9GB. DL speed was 0, but there was disk activity as it did it's thing when I went to launch after release. Then there was a patch, which accounted for the additional space. If you have Deus Ex on the same drive as your OS, that could account for the issues you had with Windows. That whole process was a real slog and it was the first time I've had a game take that long to unlock. You messing around with all that stuff probably made it worse. It took about 1 1/2 hours for Deus Ex to finish it's shit.
Hmm, good to know. Maybe the heavens will smile upon me and it will be all ready to go when I get back tonight. I left it on 'downloading' this morning...now that I think about it, I don't think I've left it alone at 20GB for a while, but I also had 0% disk usage last night so I don't think anything was happening.
All I know is, that fucking Win10 Upgrade is a PoS.