Whenever I download a game and before it's finished, if I shutdown my computer, the download gets reset and I have to download the whole thing again.
Can someone tell me why this is happening and if there is a workaround for it?
Steam – Shutdown resets the steam downloads
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Related Solutions
Try disabling ANY processes that might interfere with your downloading (I fixed mine by disabling Skype). You can find the processes here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289 Let me know if this helped!
You can re-arrange queue of download, and cancel the update/download of Gmod. You can do this by right-clicking on any game that is downloading, then clicking Manage Downloads. An alternative way of accessing Download manager is clicking the Downloading sign on the bottom of the Library section.
You will see Gmod downloading on the top. Click the pause button. Then click the up-arrow on Ark below to initiate downloading.
If I wanted to pause Starbound, and update Unturned, I would click pause on top-right and then the up-arrow on unturned to start the download.
Best Answer
This is happening because the partial-game is being downloaded into cache, and upon completion, its moved onto your system.
When you restart your PC, cache and temp files are cleared, thus losing the games download progress.
EDIT: Im not sure if there is a workaround, if there is, I wouldnt be familiar with it.
EDIT2 Try this
Load Steam
From the Library section, right-click on the game and select Properties from the menu. Select the Local files tab and click the Verify integrity of game cache... button.