Steam downloading crashing pc.

Dcully

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

have you prayed to GabeN?

degrassinoel

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

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

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

Kiith

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

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

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

Dcully wrote: »

black ops 2 downloaded fine in 4 minutes.

It would take me a full day for that.

dunworth1

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

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

fergus1001

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

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.