Why can't I download 2 games per once. Whenever I run the installation of the one, it automaticly pauses the second one. What to do?

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You should be able to go to the downloads tab and just click the play button on both. The button is sometimes a little laggy for me though.

I can't download more than 3 at a time, but you should be able to download 2.

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Steam is wierd sometimes I can download 3 or 4 games at once sometimes it only lets me download one at a time.

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^This

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Same with me, I just assumed that it adjusted how many I could download based on my internet speed.

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Same, some of the time it will split bandwidth between downloads and other times it will use it all to download one then the other.

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I think it mostly depends on your connection settings. For my connection (set for 2 MBps, although my connection is faster), it allows me to queue up multiple games for download but only downloads one game at a time (I just let it download when I'm off my system to minimize downtime).

There might be a case of where you can only download one PER DRIVE at a time, as it seems when I start chaining downloads to the same drive, it suspends the previous download while it parses the new download into the queue. However, when the download goes to a different drive (like J:\ instead of C:), it doesn't stop the download from the other drive.

Of course, your mileage will like vary based on your system configuration & internet connection.

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You can set as many things to download as you want, it will simply do it's own thing in relation to order in which it downloads stuff etc.

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Closed 11 years ago by Buszmen.