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] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why couldn't it be preloaded?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Using torrents would be relevant

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

Is this the highest it's ever been? Pretty nuts.

[–] o_oli 3 points 2 years ago

I'd be curious to know that too but I can't find any info on it. I mean it must surely be a contender because other huge releases typically have preload.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Mineis still downloading at about 600kb per second so it will be a while. I got pathfinder kingmaker super cheap so playing that for a bit.

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