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Downloading it from steam takes just as mush time. But that 50GB is probably for more then 100 hours of playtime, which amounts to a persistent 145kb/s. With s
by gnur 9y ago
Downloading it from steam takes just as mush time.
But that 50GB is probably for more then 100 hours of playtime, which amounts to a persistent 145kb/s. With some caching up front, I think this could actually work. There literally is no need to have everything on disk before starting. Maybe a few hundred megs before starting, but even that is less then a few minutes on most connections, which is a lot faster then downloading the full game before starting.
- 0xfeba 9y agoYou need all the art and sound for the first few minutes. Probably a lot more than 300MB.
- sp332 9y agoPS4 has gone this way already. When downloading a game you might get two progress bars. You can start the game when the first one is done, and it will download the rest of the game while you're playing. Microsoft has had this tech for a long time, I know they use it for MS Office programs at least.
- mr_toad 9y agoBrowsers are pretty terrible at downloading more than a few hundred MB. They can't compare to native download managers like Steam or Blizzard's, or even wget.