Updating steam games maxes drive to 100%

[DevilsHand676]

I have a 1.5GB update on a game. I hit install and it starts out fine but then that little green line showing the disk slowly goes down. I opened up task manager and the drive was being maxed to 100%. I pause the download and it goes back to its normal 2%. 

 

There is no anti virus (besides windows defender) and my computer uses a 500GB SSD That isnt even half way full 

[hardtofindinthefuture]

2 minutes ago, DevilsHand676 said:

I have a 1.5GB update on a game. I hit install and it starts out fine but then that little green line showing the disk slowly goes down. I opened up task manager and the drive was being maxed to 100%. I pause the download and it goes back to its normal 2%. 

 

There is no anti virus (besides windows defender) and my computer uses a 500GB SSD That isnt even half way full 

This could be because of task mangier 

[DevilsHand676]

Just now, v0nn_toaster said:

This could be because of task mangier 

What do you mean?

[hardtofindinthefuture]

2 minutes ago, DevilsHand676 said:

What do you mean?

Task mangier is kind of bad at viewing system resources

[WkdPaul]

high drive access will show up as 100% usage in the task manager, it's "normal", as @v0nn_toaster said, task manager isn't the best at displaying system ressources usage

[DevilsHand676]

3 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

high drive access will show up as 100% usage in the task manager, it's "normal", as @v0nn_toaster said, task manager isn't the best at displaying system ressources usage

Okay, but steam can't install anything because it maxes out to 100%, the estimated time just goes away, and it crashes

[WkdPaul]

Just now, DevilsHand676 said:

Okay, but steam can't install anything because it maxes out to 100%, the estimated time just goes away, and it crashes

Ah, that's different from what you first reported. If Steam crashes then it might be something else. Not sure where to go from there.

[Firecheetah13]

28 minutes ago, DevilsHand676 said:

I have a 1.5GB update on a game. I hit install and it starts out fine but then that little green line showing the disk slowly goes down. I opened up task manager and the drive was being maxed to 100%. I pause the download and it goes back to its normal 2%. 

 

There is no anti virus (besides windows defender) and my computer uses a 500GB SSD That isnt even half way full 

Verify the game cache to make sure that steam isn't looking for a file that doesn't exist to place the update into.

[alextheaverage]

1 minute ago, DevilsHand676 said:

Okay, but steam can't install anything because it maxes out to 100%, the estimated time just goes away, and it crashes

I had an issue like this maybe 5-7 years ago I think.  Do you have your SSD drivers installed?  I had issue with my Samsung boot drive until I installed their driver suite.  If that's not the issue try a reboot, if that doesn't work reboot again, win 10 is garbage and weird issues persist even through reboots on this os, assuming you have win 10 that is.

 

[r4tch3t]

Not an issue.

Basically it's installing the patch which well max out the drive.

Happens to me all the time with certain games.

Had a 25MB patch that maxed out my hdd for about 5 minutes once.

[alextheaverage]

2 minutes ago, r4tch3t said:

Not an issue.

Basically it's installing the patch which well max out the drive.

Happens to me all the time with certain games.

Had a 25MB patch that maxed out my hdd for about 5 minutes once.

He says it's crashing steam though.

[r4tch3t]

Ah missed that. Is it only one game?

If so it could be corrupted, you could try reinstalling the game.