How to Download PC Games with Steam Author Info wikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors. Jan 7, 2012 - Am I the only one that has this problem? Games that should download in an hr or two take like a day to download from steam's site?:pfff. Having trouble downloading Steam games? I don't know how widespread or for how long. Try adding more games to the download queue. I won't pretend to know Valve's server. Feb 3, 2015 - After you have installed the Steam Client, created a Steam account and logged into it, you can then activate your games.
The file PS2_setup.exe from the planetside site is only 19.2MB. Run that, and then it will go get the rest of the game. From Steam, it is probably the whole game. I thought steam throttled download speed, I only say that because on origins i get 3.3Mb/s. On steam along with all my friend's it jumps to 2Mb/s then solid at 1.1Mb/s. The amount of people on steam servers will DESTROY your download speed. I bought a game when skyrim came out got a whopping 51bytes/s OUCH.
I just bought some DLC for Train Simulator, but after completing the purchase I skipped to another page without starting the download.
Now the DLC shows up in my list of DLC as 'not installed' (in Dutch, so I don't know what the exact English wording is), even though 'install' is checked.
Unchecking and rechecking 'install' didn't do it either.
How do I get Steam to download and install it?
Robotnik♦
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Right click on the game you're after to open properties, click on the 'Local Files' tab, click on 'Verify Integrity of Game Files' let it do its thing. Once complete if should say it's missing some files (your DLC) and it'll go off and download them.
Tim WoodsTim Woods
I had this issue in the past. There is no guaranteed way to trigger the download. Sometimes it will even launch the game without downloading the DLC first. What mostly helps, is to quit Steam completely and then start it up again.
Sometimes also unchecking the 'install' check box and checking it again helps.
BadSnowflakeBadSnowflake
DLC will normally not download if you are running a Steam game already - especially if it uses Steam Cloud Save sync.
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