
Whether you’re running on Windows 7, 10, or 11, your downloads can freeze without notice. What’s even more compounding is that this problem is not isolated to one or two operating systems. In some cases, the problem only appears with a couple of mods, but some users have also reported being unable to download anything at all. There have been multiple reports of downloads abruptly terminating mid-way through completion or not launching at all. Sadly, however, the Workshop’s operations haven’t been smooth as of late. In addition, the Workshop provides a way for developers to directly integrate user-created content into their games. See your question 1.Users can also browse workshop content created by other users, rate and comment on it, and subscribe to content that they want to be automatically updated. If the addons downloaded by Steam are stored elsewhere, is there any way to make Garry's Mod copy-paste instead of downloading them again (if it is doing that)?.It's not like you can download 400MB in 3 seconds with Aussie Internet speeds? It is merely updating out-of-date addons that have been currently installed.Īs for the extraction stage, it doesn't use any Internet usage. Why is Garry's Mod downloading my addons again? (And is it downloading it twice or only updates?) I've noticed that both steps involve using a lot of bandwidth.They are stored in the workshop folder \workshop\4000\\. When Steam downloads an item from the workshop, where is it stored? In the addons folder or elsewhere?.The cause of your problem is because you have so many (about 1,268 addons), and that there are many updates, you're not waiting for them to complete, thus stopping the update process before the point where it unpacks the new addons (that are downloaded through Steam), which happens after all updates are finished.

Then, it decompresses new addons (downloaded via Steam) and mounts them too. It checks for any updates to existing addons, and then mount them. When you boot up Garry's Mod, it follows the list of procedures as listed above.

Download all the updated files for addons that are unmounted (needs updating).Mount all addons that does not have an update.Check for any updates on existing addons.When you start Garry's Mod, it does the following: Garry's Mod downloads all the updates before decompressing new workshop files downloaded through Steam.
