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.Ä«elow is my System information running Steam client API v017, package version 1419038262.
#Improve steam download speed windows
Result below: PIDÄownloaded 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.
#Improve steam download speed 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.
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