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Ben_Aperture

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Registered: 2018-06-02

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Steam freezes and stops the download

When I try to install ANY game, it begins downloading, but slowly starts to go slower and slower, until it goes to 0 bytes/s. I am using an external hdd throught an USB 3.0, and this only happens when I use that hard drive.

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WorMzy

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Re: Steam freezes and stops the download

In what was is this a "crash"? Please change your topic title to something that actually describes your issue, and post the journal from an affected session.

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Ben_Aperture

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Re: Steam freezes and stops the download

While it goes to 0bytes/s it doesn't allow me tu use steam and doesn't allow me to close it or kill it either. I think the problem is something with the hard drive, because steam works just fine with my internal SSD, but the problem is that it is only 120GB, so I use an external HDD of 500GB to store my games.

mrunion

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Re: Steam freezes and stops the download

Can you download then to the SSD, then copy them to the external drive?

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