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 11 months ago (20 children)

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

[–] ZippyZiggurat@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Desistance@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Only on the local network.

[–] EtzBetz@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hikiru@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months 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

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