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by Zekio 253 days ago
steam game installs are bottlenecked by cpu speed these days due to the heavy compression, so doubt it be much faster
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Well, the amount of compression isn't set in stone, obviously a system like this would run with a less compressed dataset to balance game boot time, time taken away from running the game by compression, and scale on available bandwidth.

With low bandwidth just downloading the whole thing while having enough compression to 80% saturate the local system would be optimal instead, sure.