When steam is downloading it uses all my cpu
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Mar 15, 20265028 viewsConfidence Score0%
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My friends say it's just me, but whenever Steam updates or downloads - which can take hours - it uses 99% of the CPU, makes everything else slow, and is itself glacial to respond at all. Does anyone else get this and have you ameliorated it somehow? Even after the update and despite the download fi…
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You can have steam check the filesystem (it uses a virtual filessystem in its caches) when you are logged in, I'd give that a go, and you can also make it defrag it now, those steam cache files get very very large and then the system can get overbur…
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