Steam downloading crashing pc.

Dcully · 01-04-2015 11:26AM #1

Ive started getting crashes while downloading games on steam,no problem playing any steam games or any other games,my system is fully up to date and stable.
Within minutes of starting a download on steam it hangs the pc with a blue screen.
Yet games already downloaded both on steam and origin play flawlessly.
Google isnt offering up much info,seems a weird one to me.
win 8.1

Skerries · 01-04-2015 11:42AM

have you prayed to GabeN?

degrassinoel · 01-04-2015 11:47AM

Might be something to do with how the game is updating - check other software running at the time. Firewall, AV, scheduled tasks etc..

Other than that, no idea what'd be causing it

jumbobreakfast · 01-04-2015 12:37PM

Is the hard drive where you are downloading games full? Perhaps if you are filling up your system drive (C:) that could be causing the crash

Dcully · 01-04-2015 12:59PM

No plenty of room on all 3 hard drives.
Im stumped lol.

Kiith · 01-04-2015 01:18PM

Try limiting the download speed maybe?

I've had some issues with my machine when Steam is downloading, as it goes so bloody fast. Once i get over 2mb-3mb, the pc stutters like crazy and is pretty much unusable. 1st world problem right there.

jumbobreakfast · 01-04-2015 01:29PM

Try Bluescreenview to see what driver is causing the problem. It doesnt always work but its worth a shot

Whocrashed is another similar application but I havent used it before

Dcully · 01-04-2015 06:03PM

Thanks for that, both state problem caused by NETIO.SYS which seems to be network related from what i can gather.
Whocrashed also mention avg could be the culprit, ive uninstalled it and black ops 2 downloaded fine in 4 minutes.
Hope thats the end of it now.

wotzgoingon · 01-04-2015 09:23PM

Dcully wrote: »

black ops 2 downloaded fine in 4 minutes.

It would take me a full day for that.

dunworth1 · 03-04-2015 06:21PM

Dcully wrote: »

Thanks for that, both state problem caused by NETIO.SYS which seems to be network related from what i can gather.
Whocrashed also mention avg could be the culprit, ive uninstalled it and black ops 2 downloaded fine in 4 minutes.
Hope thats the end of it now.

ive seen quite a few network issues caused by avg.

i wouldn't use avg myself

but on pcs i come across i normally disable the avg filter from the network adapter settings manually

Sierra Oscar · 03-04-2015 09:21PM

Yep AVG has been known to cause issues now and then with Steam. That problem has been ongoing for nearly a decade now.

fergus1001 · 04-04-2015 01:10AM

wotzgoingon wrote:

It would take me a full day for that.

Try all week at the home place, 2 minutes at my college house though

nesf · 04-04-2015 03:56AM

Dcully wrote: »

Thanks for that, both state problem caused by NETIO.SYS which seems to be network related from what i can gather.
Whocrashed also mention avg could be the culprit, ive uninstalled it and black ops 2 downloaded fine in 4 minutes.
Hope thats the end of it now.

Anything monitoring network traffic can cause that crash. You can get some weird errors with this stuff, the strangest I had was no file longer than a few tens of kB would download uncorrupted. So you could torrent a file and it'd be fine but an FTP transfer would be corrupted. Culprit was a simple bandwidth monitoring program that wasn't causing any issues on other machines.

Good news is, it's usually a single program causing the problem and once you remove it, job's done.

Steam downloading crashing pc.

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