Internet connection stops working during the Epic Games Launcher after 85MB of GTA V is downloaded.
Internet connection stops working during the Epic Games Launcher after 85MB of GTA V is downloaded.
You recently began downloading GTA V via the Epic Games Launcher. Initially, your connection suffered from very slow speeds (often stuck at zero). After adjusting the engine.ini file with specific timeout settings, you noticed an improvement, but once around 80-85MB was downloaded, the speed fluctuated—sometimes reaching about 100kB/s for a brief moment before dropping back to zero. You restarted the launcher multiple times without resolving the issue. Additionally, changing DNS servers didn’t help. Could you find a solution to this recurring problem?
Sure, it seems like the game is being transferred to an HDD.
The game is being saved onto a 500GB 5900 RPM Seagate Video 3.5" HDD. Note that the write rates I observe during download hover near 500MB/s, yet they drop to zero when speed reaches zero. Typically, I see about 400-600kB/s for the portion where speed isn’t halted. Also, even at a flat 0kB/s download, the file size continues to grow while write speeds occasionally increase. Updated July 30, 2021 by Hamza-Jilani
I typically experience speeds between 500-700kB/s. I navigated to the settings in the Epic Games Launcher, enabled the "throttle downloads" feature, and adjusted it to around 1000kB/s for safety. I also modified the engine.ini file with the following configuration: [HTTP] HttpTimeout=10 ... [Portal.BuildPatch] ChunkDownloads=1 ... and pasted it into the saved Windows config folder. This should help maintain a stable connection. Note 1: Only changing both actions proved effective; trying other values didn’t resolve the issue. Note 2: Setting the download limit to the actual maximum speed your internet provides—like 700kB/s in my case—was crucial for success.