Heyy People, When trying to start Steam on my Mac Book Pro (Version 10.6.8) yesterday, the sign popped up as loading, however quit again after a short while. I've tried opening it a couple of other times and every time it quit and said: Ignore, Send Report or Reopen. Reopening and restarting my mac didn't work. Even after it updated today I still had the same issue and it still crashes. (2 days ago it still worked without issues.) Now what's weird: I have to accounts on my mac: On the one account Steam works normally, no problems at all, however as soon as I log onto my actual account which I use daily, I have the same problem again. Any Ideas? I appreciate any help or recommendations which could help me to solve the issue! Thank you very much everyone!!! :) sniperboyz
My job requires me to play a lot of games, and part of “playing a lot of games” is “downloading an astronomical amount of game data every month.”
Some of Steam's servers seem to be having issues downloading games right now. Steam's download servers appear to be having issues. Try adding more games to the download queue. How do I Activate, Download and Play my games in Steam? Updated: February 26, 2019 07:29 Created. - Type STEAM and then choose Steam from the list. On Mac, hold the Command button and tap Space. Open a support ticket.
So today's about the most annoying thing I can think of: Steam's download servers appear to be having issues. I don't know how widespread or for how long, but there's somethingweirdgoingon.
Basically, the downloads get stuck in a pause-unpause loop, where no data is ever downloaded. The downloads just keep starting and stopping. I had my Tesla Effect download sitting at 13.5GB, and then it refused to budge.
Luckily, there are some things you can try. First of all, try adding more games to the download queue. I won't pretend to know Valve's server infrastructure, but according to a few forum posts you can trick the service into downloading the rest of the game by adding more games to the backlog. One user recommends adding a free game like Dota 2 or Team Fortress 2 to your queue if you don't own a second game on your account.
The other, more commonly-suggested fix is to swap your Steam Region. As far as anyone can tell, it's only some of the servers in the United States having problems currently. If you go under the Steam menu to Settings, then Download settings, you should be able to switch to a more exotic locale. For instance, I am currently downloading the rest of Tesla Effect from Sweden.
And that's it. Hopefully the problem will be fixed soon, but until then you might as well give these temporary fixes a shot. Best of luck.
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