• Timbits@lemmy.ca
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    24 hours ago

    More like check your hdd. Steam goes like this for me download, download, download, pause downloading to extract and smash my hdd, download, download, downloand.

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      23 hours ago

      Yeah I think it ends up waiting for slower storage if your cpu or HDD are too slow. I experience that with slower sdcards on the Deck.

      But on a decent NVMe with a balanced CPU the download and disk are full bore and the CPU usage goes really high.

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        23 hours ago

        Ahh yeah this could be. My system isn’t by any means crazy but it is modern. A tuned 5600x (draws about 115W at full load) and an nvme 3.0 ssd. I’m being bottlenecked by internet bandwidth at the moment.

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      23 hours ago

      Is this why steam is so insanely slow to download games.