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Re: Solving the 100GB Game Download

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Post by MBCook »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #40
pcchristie wrote: post #27

This seems an incredible technical accomplishment. My one question is, is it supposed to be solving for disk space constraints or connection speed constraints? I'm guessing both, but the former is pretty cheaply solved these days with a new drive (or by finally admitting you only need to have 2-3 games installed at once and probably aren't playing a dozen games in parallel), and I'm not sure it seems to be solving th…

Right. 2.5 hours initial wait to then play a game normally is... fine. It's a non issue for most folks:) I noticed Battle.net from BLizzard tracks couple of thresholds in the progress bar - when the game will be fully downloaded, but also when the game is playable. For many updates, those two thresholds are very close together; but occasionally, the "playable" is half the distance or less of "completed", which makes…

PS5 has a similar system to let you start playing (properly designed) games before downloading is complete.

I know iOS has something like that, though o don’t think I’ve ever seen it used.

And I’d expect Xbox does as well, but I’m not in that ecosystem so I don’t know as much about their features.

Re: Solving the 100GB Game Download

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Post by thomastjeffery »

permo-w wrote: post #28
thomastjeffery wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's absurd and real at the same time. My apartment contract forces me to pay $99/mo. for roughly 120mbit, while most residences on my block can get 1gbit symmetric from Google Fiber for $70/mo.

those prices are crazy. it never ceases to amaze me how expensive life is in the US. that aside, I'd be delighted with 120mbi/s. that's just under 2 hours to download 100gb. it may well take you longer to actually go to the shop and buy a physical copy

Don't get me wrong, it's a wonderful thing, and I'm happy to have it. I've lived a lot of my life on much slower connections, usually 10-20mbit..

Over that same span of time, I've seen my local storage throughout go from ~100mb/sec to ~6000mb/sec.

The improvement of internet bandwidth for the average person is moving at a glacial pace. I'm happy to live near the middle of that spectrum; and I'm frustrated to be so close, yet so far away, from the bleeding edge.

Re: Solving the 100GB Game Download

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Post by dmitrygr »

“Solving the 100GB Game…”

That’s been solved already. Play older games. Better story, less fluff. As an extra credit, they are smaller, don’t require top of the line hardware, do not need to insert any kernel anti-cheat rootkits, and do not spy on you.

Re: Solving the 100GB Game Download

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Post by cma »

pcchristie wrote: post #27

This seems an incredible technical accomplishment. My one question is, is it supposed to be solving for disk space constraints or connection speed constraints? I'm guessing both, but the former is pretty cheaply solved these days with a new drive (or by finally admitting you only need to have 2-3 games installed at once and probably aren't playing a dozen games in parallel), and I'm not sure it seems to be solving th…

It would be faster to drive to a store, buy the game, and bring it back, I think you want to at least beat out that.

Re: Solving the 100GB Game Download

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Post by thomastjeffery »

pcchristie wrote: post #17
thomastjeffery wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's absurd and real at the same time. My apartment contract forces me to pay $99/mo. for roughly 120mbit, while most residences on my block can get 1gbit symmetric from Google Fiber for $70/mo.

I assume the parent comment is making the opposite point? I'm in Australia and I can get 90-100mbps which is very fast in this country - I'd say the average house gets 50-60mbps (guessing, haven't looked it up).

That's what I mean by absurd: 120mbit/sec is fantastic!

It's also quite slow, depending on what you compare it to.

Re: Solving the 100GB Game Download

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Post by justinclift »

pcchristie wrote: post #27

This seems an incredible technical accomplishment. My one question is, is it supposed to be solving for disk space constraints or connection speed constraints? I'm guessing both, but the former is pretty cheaply solved these days with a new drive (or by finally admitting you only need to have 2-3 games installed at once and probably aren't playing a dozen games in parallel), and I'm not sure it seems to be solving th…

> I get 10MBPs (megabytes) down reliably from Steam

Ahhh, that's interesting. Personally, I've relocated to Brisbane recently and the NBN connections up here go to 1Gb/s (!). I'm on a 400Mbps plan, with downloads of .isos from mirrors (etc) routinely being 40-50MB/s.

But the fastest downloads from Steam (using Brisbane download server) are 5-6MB/s, which really sucks. :( :(

Re: Solving the 100GB Game Download

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Post by yCombLinks »

cma wrote: post #44
pcchristie wrote: post #27

This seems an incredible technical accomplishment. My one question is, is it supposed to be solving for disk space constraints or connection speed constraints? I'm guessing both, but the former is pretty cheaply solved these days with a new drive (or by finally admitting you only need to have 2-3 games installed at once and probably aren't playing a dozen games in parallel), and I'm not sure it seems to be solving th…

It would be faster to drive to a store, buy the game, and bring it back, I think you want to at least beat out that.

In which you open the case and proceed to do a giant download.

Re: Solving the 100GB Game Download

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Post by laserDinosaur »

Ok the video on the home page is very confusing. I couldn't understand why it was demoing that you can play a game without waiting for the full install..when the video only runs games that are already installed.

Turns out that's just a visual side affect of the app itself - everything appears as if it's already installed. So when he opens Destiny in the demo it's not actually installed yet (even though it looks like it is).

I feel like that could have been made clearer.

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