Dear Steam.. WTF r u doing now

Ewanb75 · 8 Sep 2011 at 14:40

why has it decided to download about 10 games ..!!?!?!

GJ02 · 8 Sep 2011 at 14:42

i would check your account hasnt been hacked and someone has bought you some games

Evilsod · 8 Sep 2011 at 14:47

Yeah... steam doesn't suddenly start downloading things unless its been told to.

Someone else been using your computer? Or does someone else have an account on there and its continued the downloads?

Dano · 8 Sep 2011 at 14:51

Downloading or just updating? Mine updated a shed load of games this morning.

GJ02 · 8 Sep 2011 at 14:53

looking at the sizes, they are full games

Frapple · 8 Sep 2011 at 14:57

Looks like something has screwed with your game folder!

ak22 · 8 Sep 2011 at 14:57

Looks likes its downloading judging by the file size :eek:

Contact steam, also check your email to see if you have revived any receipts for the games you could be hacked

dasyad · 8 Sep 2011 at 15:00

I never let Steam store my card details.

Hope your games folder got corrupted or something rather than someone hacking your account.

Liampope · 8 Sep 2011 at 15:03

It would help to know if you already owned these games or not.

Swi1ch · 8 Sep 2011 at 15:08

Liampope said:
It would help to know if you already owned these games or not.

This makes every bit of difference.

Tefal · 8 Sep 2011 at 15:18

mine occasional decides it's going to re download company of heroes usually pausing it and telling it to verify the game files stops it.

Kainz · 8 Sep 2011 at 15:24

Mine's been acting up too - although no where near as bad as the OP's :eek:

On Steam I've told it not to update Oblivion, and yet the pos does exactly that overriding one of my key mods on a heavily modded Oblivion setup.

It also repeatedly re-downloads a 'small' 2GB portion of Witcher 2 for no apparent reason even though the game has been already installed.

gropingmantis · 8 Sep 2011 at 15:25

Mine updated about 12 games this morning. I'm sure its nothing to worry about. It was only a tiny amount downloaded so I doubt its important.

Ewanb75 · 8 Sep 2011 at 15:28

I do own the games, these ones are installed.

I set the hard reset demo to download before i went to work at lunchtime, came back to see it had melted my router with the amount of downloads as it had reset the router, and some games were downloading and some were updating. (auto updates are switched off)

No receipts or emails etc either.

Ewanb75 · 8 Sep 2011 at 15:30

gropingmantis said:
Mine updated about 12 games this morning. I'm sure its nothing to worry about. It was only a tiny amount downloaded so I doubt its important.

mine so far is trying to download over 30+ gb from whats on the list, and it has finished some
:eek:

orderoftheflame · 8 Sep 2011 at 15:48

Its not a hacked account like some people have mentioned. Which games are downloaded are machine specific, you can't start a download remotely from another client.

Sound more to me like games weren't uninstalled correctly/have become corrupt, then Steams gone to update and want to get the whole set of files.

HeX · 8 Sep 2011 at 15:50

Tefal said:
mine occasional decides it's going to re download company of heroes usually pausing it and telling it to verify the game files stops it.

This. I eventually just uninstalled the damn game as it must have tried to redownload it every other day.

Only ever CoH. :mad:

Tefal · 8 Sep 2011 at 16:09

i think it's cause of that **** relic downloader crap.

Overslop · 8 Sep 2011 at 16:15

This happened to me the other day after I updated Steam. It's happened before when I've had hard drive issues too. Running CHKDSK sorted that crap out.

stooeh · 8 Sep 2011 at 16:54

Just started a demo on download and go to the Downloads section, about 15 of my games in there :O

Thankfully they were all paused on 0 bytes dl'd hopefully a restart will sort it