Pc freezes when downloading from steam

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Forums Hardware and Technology Computer Building. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Previous Next. Ketchup Elite Member. Sep 1, 14, This one is just weird. We just noticed it this week, and it is affecting the machine in my sig not other PC in the house has Steam. It was first noticed yesterday when my son was playing CS:GO.

It has now gotten to the point where I can just start steam and let it sit for a minute, and the entire computer will freeze. Here is where I am at: -Windows 10 has the latest updates as of this week - and the next step will probably be to remove that most recent update. Rolled back to drivers that were a year old, no change. Tried a driver uninstaller, no change. Windows 10 auto driver update is off. Installed Steam no problem. Swapped SATA cable and port, same issue.

I did copy several files that are outside of steam between the two drives today, so I don't believe there is a problem with the cable or drives anyway. And here is where I think things get stranger: we can run any other game on this computer with no issue Need for Speed, Flash-based games, etc and we can surf the Internet, etc, without any type of problem.

I took a look on the Steam boards before posting here and don't see anything, so wondering if you all have run into anything like this.

Last edited: Dec 18, XavierMace Diamond Member. Apr 20, 4, Installed any new games? With Steam Cloud saves enabled, some games will really thrash your drive while syncing. If you open Task Manager and see Steam maxing out your drive, that's probably it. IE, my Spellforce 3 save folder is 4Gb. Steam would lock up every time I quit the game albeit for only a couple of seconds.