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Download speed spike when progress is near the end on Arch

steamopen Distro Family: Arch
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#12223 · opened 2025-07-23 by dxrknesss · updated 2025-07-23 · 2 comments · github
Ddxrknesss 2025-07-23 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1753138871 mon, 21 july 23:21 UTC -08:00
  • Distribution: Arch
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: yes
  • Steam Logs: steam-logs.tar.gz
  • GPU: AMD (Radeon Vega 11)

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Expected: Games are downloaded as usual, without speed spikes.

Actual: When downloading any game (as you can see on the screenshot below, proton also counts), at the time progress nears the end (circa 90-95%, different for every download), the speed drops dramatically. This continues for few minutes (1-5) and then the game just finishes the download as usual.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Start downloading a game
  2. Wait until it's almost finished
  3. The download speed drops drastically
Image It's in Ukrainian, but it basically says:
  1. Network: 70.5kB
  2. Max: 13.5MB
  3. Disk usage: 41.1kB
Ddxrknesss 2025-07-23 github

Damn, I just saw the #12178 and this is possible duplicate of it.. Though, I believe you can extract more information from my report, since there are logs attached, more detailed description, etc.

Ooggytheman 2025-07-23 github

Same thing happens to me actually

Nothing extracted yet.