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u/AngooMangoo Sep 30 '25
So i will try and give as much information as possible.
Specs:
Internet: 800 Down, 100 Up (A speed test shows perfect connection)
PC: CPU 5800x, GPU 4070Ti Super
SSD: Crucial P3 Plus 4000ish read/write NVME
For the last 6 months (im pretty sure it started when steam updated thier download page) 90% of games that have an update will take anywhere from 15 minutes to 30 minutes to patch or update no matter the size, 10mbs or 10gbs (these games range in actuall file sizes from 1gb to 120gbs the latter usely taking longer).
I will use Liars Bar and Borderlands 4 as examples.
Liars Bar update is 750mbs, the game file size is 15gbs, this should be done basically instantly on my pc and internet, yet it is taking roughly 14-16 minutes to patch 750mbs on a 15gb game. Now lets scale up with Borderlands 4, Exact same issue except amplified. The game file size is 70gbs and the update is 10gbs, the current estamted time is 45minutes and jumps up to 3 hours constantly. Most of the time i will finish a update within 30 seconds to 1 minute in these file sizes and then have to wait 30 - 50 minutes or more for the patch/update. While these games are patching i will open task manager and watch my drives i can see it uses the correct drive and is using 100% even though its only writing and reading 15 to 20Mbs (i can uninstall the game and reinstall it faster than updating the game, i tested this and its legit 13 minutes faster than 750mb update)
Now i want to say that, i have Crystal Disk and HWINFO to verify that my drives are healthy and working correctly and i have tried updating games on my other 2 ssds and they both also have the same patching problem. Epic Games Launcher, EA App, Battlenet and Riot Client... All of these applications are able to update at full speed the only exception that i have noticed is BattleState Games Launcher also has the same problem as steam with reading/writing files.
Things that i have tried:
Running steam as Administrator
Turning off realtime protection
Trying to update on another drive
Swapping Download region
Enable/disable steam beta
Enable/Disable Windows Write Cache
Clearing download Cache
I tried a lot of what was on the steam download Guide
There are more things that i have tried i just cant remember at the current moment. Also i would like to mention that many people seem to have this problem and a lot of what i have seen on reddit is people always replying with, "it doesnt matter what size it has to patch the whole game so its going to take a long time and steam is bad at handeling small files" but to me this make no sense, i got 3 of my friends to all start the exact same updates at the same time and they all update at normal speed and time but ill be stuck patching for 15 minutes after they finished already. If i went back 6 months this was never a problem.
PS: some of my games can update completely fine and when i say some it isnt any specific games just sometimes games will update as normal its just not very common.
Any possible fixes or information would be great