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I wasn't sure if they'd actually introduced this or not but it appears as though Steam's "trickle" distribution system that was implemented a while actually does work.
You may all notice that when you reloaded Steam it's preload progress appeared to be frozen at a certain point. In my case it was 73%. I didn't think anything of it at first, and realised it was going to stay like that for a while and then speed up and get to 100% after the load on the servers is down.
Then I soon realised that I was actually downloading the complete game, and for any complete game to download in the matter of 2 minutes to 73% would have been a mammoth connection. The next thing I noticed is that it then, slowly but surely, went up to 74%. I realised that for some reason, I had downloaded the first part of this extremely fast. Or had I?
I reckon I've been downloading this in bits for weeks. We all have. Steam released an update about 6 months ago now saying it had introduced this feature. I believe we've all just had a chance to witness it
Cool eh?
You may all notice that when you reloaded Steam it's preload progress appeared to be frozen at a certain point. In my case it was 73%. I didn't think anything of it at first, and realised it was going to stay like that for a while and then speed up and get to 100% after the load on the servers is down.
Then I soon realised that I was actually downloading the complete game, and for any complete game to download in the matter of 2 minutes to 73% would have been a mammoth connection. The next thing I noticed is that it then, slowly but surely, went up to 74%. I realised that for some reason, I had downloaded the first part of this extremely fast. Or had I?
I reckon I've been downloading this in bits for weeks. We all have. Steam released an update about 6 months ago now saying it had introduced this feature. I believe we've all just had a chance to witness it
Cool eh?