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submitted 1 year ago by scops@reddthat.com to c/games@lemmy.world

From Steam's self-published stats.

Baldur's Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam's bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection.

Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.

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[-] Neato@kbin.social 88 points 1 year ago

And it still gave me 800Mbps consistently right at launch time. Good servers.

[-] ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Steam has some of the most consistent and high quality servers around. It's quite rare to see them slow down or go down, at least in my experience.

[-] tpyo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I can't think of a time steam was down (for me personally, I know outages happen) that wasn't planned and announced well ahead of time

And I've got a lot of hours on steam

[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

What, you just play "Steam"? :)

[-] MolochAlter@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's got a very satisfying game loop:

  • open library
  • browse my 800+ games
  • realise this is how women feel when they look at their packed closets and say "i have nothing to wear"
  • close steam
  • wait a bit
  • open steam
  • repeat
[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

I always wanted to start a let's play channel where a just play a random game from my libraryb every time. I have so many I never even touched

[-] MolochAlter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

IIRC there is a website that does this with your library if you log in with steam. It just picks a random one from your library, and you may even be able to set filters or pick a specific collection.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

And at best only during specific sales like the Steam deck their servers became unresponsive for a bit.

[-] ollie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

so high quality that they go down for maintenance every Tuesday..

[-] kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

That seems pretty normal if you want your servers to stay high quality?

[-] ollie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

normal? not at all. Imagine if youtube went down every week, and they have way more overhead than steam

[-] kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You mean if Youtube had regularly scheduled maintenance every week?

[-] SoaringDE@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

I wonder how much they paid for that launch bandwith.

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Steam has a 30% cut, so, that pays

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Because they use Akamai as a CDN.

[-] ZippyZiggurat@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Isn't Steam download peer to peer additionally from their servers?

[-] Desistance@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago
[-] EtzBetz@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, interesting. I didn't know that. Is this automatic, or does it need to be configured somehow?

[-] Hikiru@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

automatic for me. as long as u have 2 pc's with steam open on the same network, it'll do a local transfer

[-] Silviecat44@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Crys in low internet speed

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