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[–] Timbits@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope you aren't literally still using an actual HDD.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago

Not for games, usually, but it still has its uses, so why not

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

It can be, spinning iron has pretty bad throughput.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

Could be a variety of things but yes. It also depends on the game and how compressible it's assets are.