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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[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 years ago (20 children)

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

[–] ItsMeSpez 35 points 2 years ago (11 children)

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.

[–] ollie 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] kmkz_ninja 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] ollie 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] kmkz_ninja 2 points 1 year ago

You mean if Youtube had regularly scheduled maintenance every week?

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