In the pop-up, right click on the drive in which you are attempting to download on and hit ‘Repair library folder’.From the downloads setting window, click on the ‘Steam library folders’ button.We hope you kept that window open – because there’s one more! This time, we’ll let Steam take a look at our install location to look for issues.

Press the ‘Download region’ drop down and change it to another.

If the Steam servers in your area are having issues, it may help to swap your downloads region.

In the drop-down, press ‘Settings’ then ‘Downloads’.ĭon’t close this window, because our next step will use the same one.

Press the ‘Steam’ button in the top-left of the client.

The only consequence to this is that Steam will force you to login again, so have you password and phone handy. By clearing this out, some game installations will recover. Inside your Steam files, a temporary folder is created whilst any game installation takes place. Valve has published a short list of interfering firewall applications, so check if you are using any of the following: Firewall/Security Applications

In these cases, third party firewall applications will be managing. It may become apparent that your system isn’t using the Windows firewall at all.

If you can’t find Windows Defender Firewall: If this doesn’t work, we can manually allow it by pressing ‘Allow an app or feature through Windows Defender Firewall’, searching for any Steam applications and give them both public and private network permissions. From the ‘Windows Defender Firewall’ panel, press the ‘Restore defaults’ button.Regardless of the result to Steam, you should remember to turn in back on. Disable the firewall by ticking the ‘Turn off Windows Defender Firewall’ for both public and private networks.Search your system for the ‘Windows Defender Firewall’ or any other firewall applications that you have installed.Disabling this temporarily is the easiest way to check if this is the issue. The most common interfering application is the Windows Defender Firewall, which runs on all Windows machines by default. Most PC users will have a firewall application protecting their computer. If Steam servers are overloaded, such as frequently occurs during Steam sales, or if your hard-drive is holding up your download, you may just need to wait. If you game game is just downloading slowly, it may not be an issue you can fix. The issue can come from a multitude of different places, but we’ll run you through the most common solutions.

If you suffer from Steam games downloading at 0 bytes, being given a connection timeout error whenever you try to launch or you’re seeing the ‘corrupt update files’ error, we’ve got you covered.

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