Here Is How To Fix Super Slow Updates On Steam Even When You Have An SSD

forthelulz

Here is a very easy way to solve this annoying issue that takes only a few seconds to do and then undo after your update is completed.

Go to your list of drives, right click on it and select properties then select the "Hardware" tab. Choose the disk out of the list that you have Dead By Daylight on and then select properties. In the window that pops up choose "Change Settings" which will open another window. Click on the "Policies" tab and uncheck "Enable write caching on the device" and click "Ok" to close that window and close the other disk properties windows that were open.

Now run the update and when it is complete simply undo the fix by re-enabling write caching on your drive.

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In the video I'll link below first I copy my DBD folder which is currently 58GB which takess ~90 seconds to complete, just to show that my drive is capable of maintaining constant read & write speeds at the same time averaging ~600MB/sec.

Then I start todays update. You can see it starts off great the small download takes only a couple of seconds to complete and then it starts patching with disk usage ~600MB/sec which should take ~60 seconds to complete but instantly starts to drop rapidly. After 10 seconds it's down to 300MB/sec after another 10 seconds it's down to 200MB/sec and after 60 seconds it has gone down to under 20MB/sec with the estimated time remaining now at almost a half hour and if I had waited longer disk usage would have dropped into the single digits and estimated time remaining would be close to an hour but rather than have to make a video that's over an hour long I stop the update, then manually delete the update information out of steam so that I can restart the update completely after applying the fix to show the difference quickly.

Then I apply the fix and start the update again.

This time while it starts off slower than it did previously it doesn't slow to a crawl and actually completes the patching process in around 2 minutes or it would have but I stop it just before it finishes so that I can undo the fix and restart the update again and let it run for ~90 seconds to demonstrate the difference once more.

After your updating is complete you can undo this fix and carry on normally, until the next update until it gets fixed which could be awhile because... well you know :)

https://youtu.be/-NU0bmuH9AE

apathyinc

I fixed mine by going into the downloads page on Steam, clicking the cog wheel in the upper right to open download settings. Then I unchecked a box that said something like "Throttle downloads while streaming". I don't stream so I unchecked it, and right when I did DbD unstuck itself and updated super fast.