

Once this installation has completed you can then play the game. This will take you through to this screen: You can check the progress by clicking 'Library':ħ. Steam will then begin the download and installation of your game. Then accept the License Agreement and click 'Finish'. Then choose your desktop and shortcut preferences and click 'Next'.Ħ. Then click 'Next', and once you see the screen below 'Finish'.ĥ. Then copy the Steam key that was sent to you by email when you made your purchase and paste it in the 'Product Code' box:Ĥ. Then click 'Next', and on the next page 'Agree' in reference to the license agreement.

Make sure you have Steam installed and are signed in to your account. If you only need to know where to input your key, please see steps 1-3.ġ. This is a thorough tutorial on how to install a game via Steam key. After you have made your purchase, you will be automatically sent an email containing your Steam key(s).

You can purchase Steam keys for our games through our webstore at. But, in the same settings window at the bottom, clicking "clear download cache" has worked for me.A Steam key is a unique code that will allow you to download the game from the gaming platform Steam and then play it. I changed mine to Frankfurt, Germany and my download is no longer starting and stopping.ĮDIT 2: /u/SonicBlue22 with an update if changing the DL region doesn't work: 9 year old post but I'd like to add changing the region didn't work for me. Apparently changing your download region to somewhere else in the US wasn't good enough. Thanks in advance.ĮDIT: Thanks to /u/thetorsoboy for finding a fix. I'm just wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem/knows of a good fix for me. Every game I have tried to download has given me this issue. Recently just upgraded my internet and modem/router equipment to 1gbps speed, but according to the download meter in Steam my download peak is barely. This isn't just certain games doing it either. Not very long of a pause in download but enough to make the download go extremely slow.Īnd verifying the game cache on the games. Basically, any game I try to download will start and stop in rather quick succession. So this started a little over a week ago and I've tried everything I can think of/googled so far.
