Why are my steam games so slow?

Ok so I downloaded the game Zombie Panic: Source and it had probably 180-500 kb/s install. Now i'm downloading Day of Defeat: Source and it was downloading about the same, but it ...show more

I recently bought some games through steam, but they all seem to run slow on my PC. I made sure to check the specs on my machine before buying and my specs seem to far exceed the requirements. Example: Dawn of War II, Home Front. Other games that I have...

I hate Team fortress 2. I don't want it on my pc, yet, everytime I try to play Gmod it re downloads itself as well as 14gigs of other crap. I don't have much space on my pc because of this so it slows down, quite a bit. Anybody know a way to make steam...

I want to get Dead island, on steam it's $29.99, at EB Games brand new it's $48.00, so why is it cheaper on steam does it not come with some content? I need to know so I know what one to buy. Also add me on steam@ Jayet101.

Some of my steam games (such as borderlands) have DLC you can download and they sometimes have an activation key that pops up at the bottom. Using borderlands as an example, i downloaded 2 of the 3 DLC's and they both have activation codes, one asked...

So i was looking at buying a game on steam that a lot of my online friends have been playing but was up in the air as to if i should because its 90$ US. When i was talking to my friend from the us apparently the game was 30$ for him a few weeks ago not...

I moved my steam files to a different hard drive petition and after starting steam it believes that my games aren't installed despite them being in the right directory, I can ...show more

When I play solo (L4D2 i play fine on single player and I play TF2 on solo practice well.) but when I tried to play online it took me a long time to connect a server, even at ping rate of 80. Almost everytime I succeed connecting (Other times i was timed...