incredibly slow download speeds

[EA_Darko]

Have you tried the troubleshooting in this thread @Zuccador.

Darko

[EA_Darko]

Not sure what you're trying to say @inoperable by taking my screenshot and just resharing it. 

Darko

[Rzthm]

trying to update fifa 23 and im stuck on 0.00 bytes per second, its only this game that is this slow. Yes I tried the cache things and my internet/network is not the problen

[BOOTIWARRIOR27]

I have the same issue as of 2/10/23 and it just gets worse. I actually just went back to the old origin and the download speeds went back to normal. Just don't use this trash app it's a waste of time.

[Purdiddy]

This is a issue for everyone. EA says that its backround activity, but in reality they have a * optimized app, that has a 90% bottleneck on wifi. I am downloading something right now, EA app is sucking up 100mbs of wifi, while only downloading at 10mbs. If they let me download on steam, I would be downloading 10x faster.

[Nightluber]

Hey everyone,

Won't comment on the software quality, but from what I can gather unlike Steam/Battle.net/Epic, EA Desktop (and Origin for that matter) doesn't store any of the downloaded files in RAM or other memory area to do the unzipping & writing on your installation disk in a parallel manner. It therefore writes data in blocks (which you can actually see from the "Performance" tab of your Task Monitor, the Disk Activity and Network graphs are complementary) to your installation disk, unzip them in a temporary folder, and then applies the update or installs the game.

We can assume (or hope ?) that this kind of software behaviour will be patched/improved over the life of the EA Desktop app.

This will happen whether or not your installation disk is an eNVM SSD (M.2 PCIe in my case), a SATA SSD or a HDD.

This is what I was able to gather from my own experience for my specific setup & location (5Gbits/s, around 300 to 600MBytes/s optic fiber in France) which might differ from yours, but if my answer actually brought some kind of info that's been helpful, glad I could help !

[ALC8509]

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@HardcoreFinesse wrote:

1. Open powershell as administrator

2. enter this command -> netsh interface tcp show global

3. For me, "recieve window auto-tuning level" was set to disabled

4. to enable it, enter this command -> netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

5. enter the command in step 2 to verify it worked.

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Your solution works, and thanks for it!

No need to disable any background programs or any anti-virus software.

[Bananacreamdream]

didn't work thanks

[SenseiSnickers]

lol great! I didn't love origin but now I can't use it anymore and ea App gives me approx 10x the download times compared to even origin. At least Apex can also be played via steam - fun fact, the full installation of the game on steam takes less time than updating it via ea app

[MarshaMyGames]

I’m currently downloading a game (to EA app NOT Origin) at a speed of 70-72kb. I’ve seen so many people who have reported the same download speeds. If it were a connectivity issue, it doesn’t make sense that so many different people in different places with different internet connections and plans are ALL reporting this same thing.

I’ve been downloading ONE ☝️ game for the past TWO days and nights. This is after spending two days troubleshooting the app to make it run. I lowered my firewall, other security and all permissions.

I’m only at 30% and this isn’t even including all the packs. I’m still here only because I have invested thousands of hours in this one version of the game, (+ a lot more on other versions). . If I were a new player, I wouldn’t be. I’d quit. I thought Origin was bad... smh.  

It’s gut wrenching, knowing how much I have lost, already - ALL of my saves. All mods and cc. I’ve seen this is typical for way too many people.

I am open to suggestions.Thanks in advance.