Fix Steam Downloads constantly being ‘Suspended’
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Almost every Steam User knows it: Suspended Downloads which just won’t finish. Here are my 2 cents on how to fix them in almost any situation:
- Downloads will be suspended when you launch a game. If that’s what you did, then just pause them and unpause them. The download should then continue.
- The Steam folder or some subdirectories are set to “Read Only”. Uncheck that option for the Steam folder.
- If you are using a non-english Operating System you can try to set your Unicode Language Setting to “English” (suggestion by Elvis in the comments).
- Exit Steam, go to the Steam-Folder and delete the “ClientRegistry.blob” file. Now restart Steam (you will have to enter your password again even if you checked to save it).
- Verify the game cache (this option is found in the Properties of the game in the Steam Interface).
- Delete a bunch of already downloaded files and reverify the cache.
- If nothing helps: Delete everything and redownload
Those are pretty much the options in decreasing order in which they should be applied.
If everything else fails and you find out how to fix it, please leave me a comment so I can add it to the list.