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simoncionyesterday at 8:32 PM1 replyview on HN

As a user of both EGS and Steam, the one thing that EGS doesn't have that Steam does is multi-threaded downloading. Steam can saturate any connection I've thrown at it, whereas EGS gets a few-hundred mbit/s and saturates a single CPU while doing it.

Perhaps game devs get a whole bunch of "gee whiz" features from the Steam Platform that Epic Games doesn't provide, but I -personally- couldn't care less about those.


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fc417fc802yesterday at 9:13 PM

You don't need multiple threads to saturate a gigabit connection. Even many embedded SoCs can do it.

That said, Steam has a rather absurd CDN.

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