Check Steam's server status

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Check your Steam downloads settings

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Start Steam as an administrator

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Allow Steam through your firewall

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Temporarily disable your anti-virus software

Flush the Steam configuration file ( as video

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Change LAN settings ( as video

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Reset your network adapter ( as video

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Start CMD as an administrator by searching for "CMD" in the Windows menu, right-click it and select Run as administrator.



Type in and execute the following command:



netsh winsock reset

Restart your computer.

Steam goes down every Tuesday at around 23:00 UTC for scheduled maintenance, and usually lasts for about 1 hour.There are also other unexpected maintenance's and outages. You can check the status of Steam's servers here: https://steamstat.us If you are having your issue during maintenance hours, or when servers are experiencing issues, please test your issue later. Make sure you have set the correct download region,, and that you haven't enabled any download restrictions, like bandwidth throttling.You can change your download region and check other download restrictions underandEven if you have the correct download region set, this issue can be fixed by changing your download region to a neighboring country, or even an overseas country.After you have changed the download region restart Steam, then double check in your downloads settings that it still is set to the download region you changed it to and resume your download. Let the download stay resumed for roughly 5 minutes. If it doesn't fix your problem you can change it back to the correct download region, which is the closest country, city or sate.The reason this can fix your issue is that sometimes download servers on Steam can get slow, usually caused by major events or major game releases as during these events or major game releases the servers will have a massive bump in activity and usage which can cause slowdowns or server crashes. Fully exit Steam, then go to your, right clickand then click onThis step can be quite useful for obscure issues like corrupted files in the download cache and is one of the most common fixes for general download issues.You can clear your download cache underclearing the download cache will cause any active download to reset to 0% progress.Download related issues can be caused by your firewall blocking Steam or Steam related services and connections.If you are on a public network or business or school network, download issues can occur due to filters or similar things placed on the network. Unless you have administrator access to the network there is nothing you can do about this.Temporarily disable your firewall and see if it solved the issue. If it did, try to allow/whitelist Steam and Steam related services and connections through your firewall.from How-To Geek.from Apple.Your anti-virus software,, can be blocking the download or otherwise might be causing issues with it.First check the quarantine for files related to Steam and in that case assess if those are false-positives (simply Google them). Otherwise go to your anti-virus options and disable it and try to resume the download. If this fixes the issue you need to whitelist Steam and Steam related services through your anti-virus.If you do not know how to disable your particular anti-virus or how to whitelist processes and connections you'll have to Google how to do it as there are too many anti-viruses out there to list how to do it on each individual one.Flushing the Steam configuration file can solve many issues related to Steam, not just download issues, and is a great tool to remember for any other problems you might have with Steam in the future.To flush the Steam configuration file:Press theon your keyboard > typeinto the Run box > press theIn some rare occasions Windows might detect wrong settings for your LAN adapter.Open the Windows, go to> change to thetab > click onand try to download withdisabled. Restart Steam and test the issue again. If it doesn't help, try again with the setting enabled.Also try to disable the option to use a proxy if it is enabled.The following fix is also known as a, it resets your network adapter which can solve some internet and connection related issues.