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Steam Gets A Speed Boost

Steam Gets A Speed Boost

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PC gamers, listen up. Steam has been updated, and the name of the game is speed. Valve has totally overhauled their content delivery system, allowing games to get to the market, and to you, much quicker. Here’s what valve had to say about it.

“The new content system is designed to do two things: deliver better download rates in more places around the world, and also to simply streamline the publishing process on Steam, ultimately making it possible to ship more games than we would have been able to with the old system.”



On the technical end of things, Valve says it had increased Steam’s “maximum aggregate bandwidth.” What’s that mean? Well it means more people can be downloading at the same time without users taking a hit in download speed. I re-downloaded Team Fortress 2 yesterday at a blazing fast 2.1 mb/s. You can’t beat that.

Steam also said that patches will now be able to be made smaller in size with their new “Client Code.” So you’ll have less to download to keep your games up to date. This is good, because there’s a limited amount of bandwidth to go around after all, and with Steam being the most popular digital distribution platform, they can use all the bandwidth they can get.

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