I was stuck in an endless loop where the download would reset when it got to the bigfiles. Eventually I asked to Steam to verify the install whereupon I was needing to reinstall the whole game again. So the question is why do I need to limit my download to 500kbps in order to get a successful download of the bigfiles? I haven’t needed to do this before since I first installed in August and it’s not as if my internet is blazingly fast to begin with (maybe 20gb). Very annoying.
Good question! The whole problem of resumable or block level file file diff downloads has been solved for years. Why in 2020 do things like this still happen? Its so annoying and such a waste of time and resources. My system has downloaded over 40Gb in the last 36 hours, almost all in restarted “bigfiles” patch downloading over and over. It would get to about 10% then start over, over and over.
So what I did to fix it was similar to the NetLimiter solution. On my firewall/router, we have queues and limiters. I set one to a measly 2Mbps and 150kbps upload just for my PC and it finally worked. We fight with bufferbloat here. Its mostly solved with our router now, but my guess is the their downloader doesn’t like when queues fill up. Dedicating a queue to this task worked.
The file showed about 2.3Gb when it finished. With one huge file like that, why can’t it restart where it left off? so even on our horrible internet connection we wouldn’t keep redoing the same 10% of the file over and over.
I cannot get the Installation Manger to work without netlimiter. Otherwise it’s always stuck in a loop. It took me 2 weeks to reinstall ms2020.
They did an update today. I had to reinstall netlimiter to slowly download this. I am going to have to pay $25 for 3rd party software to slow down the download. This sucks. I wish they would forget any more feature updates until they fix the f###ing downloader. Watching my internet crippled to wait over 24 hours for an update to finish ■■■■■■ me off.
Perhaps you would have been better served by subscribing to a VPN. Traffic routing can be your friend old sock.