Epic is overwhelmingly faster at downloading than Steam. Is it my fault?

[Pvt. Parts]

When I download something from Steam its speed goes from 2MB/s to 25MB/s without any patter that I can see. However, when I download something from EGS it just goes @ 60MB/s (bytes, not bits) for almost the whole download.

I won't either complain nor ask for better Steam servers but what can I do to improve my Steam speed? Changing server location proved useless when I tried.

[ReBoot]

Start your system in safe mode (for obvious reasons with networking). Does that change things?

[✨Saint✨]

Yeah, I have noticed the same thing as OP, but it really uses your full connection making other things on the web kinda slow. Something I have never had on Steam.

[Nx Machina]

I get the same download speed on all PC clients.

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I have 250Mb/s and everytime i download from steam i get around 28.25MB/s which is what i pay for so my downloads are not really slow.

[Pvt. Parts]

Originally posted by ✨Saint✨:

Yeah, I have noticed the same thing as OP, but it really uses your full connection making other things on the web kinda slow. Something I have never had on Steam.

:saint:

That's a fair point. Currently experiencing that to the point that I had to pause the download to access this forum to answer you.

[wuddih]

depends on game.

1. what game(s) you experience this with?
and was it an
a) uninterrupted first download.
b) interrupted first download.
c) update.

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by Snakefist:

I have 250Mb/s and everytime i download from steam i get around 28.25MB/s which is what i pay for so my downloads are not really slow.

1) megabit (Mb) or megabit per second (Mbps, Mb/s), with a small or lowercase ‘b’, a data-rate unit used for download speeds advertised by ISPs and reported by on-line tools, equal to 10002 bits (b).

2) megabyte (MB) or megabyte per second (MBps, MB/s), with a capital or uppercase ‘B’, a data-rate unit used for file sizes and often in end-user software, equal to 10002 bytes (B).

[Pvt. Parts]

Originally posted by wuddih:

depends on game.

1. what game(s) you experience this with?
and was it an
a) uninterrupted first download.
b) interrupted first download.
c) update.

Perhaps it depends on the game but I don't think that's the case here. I've downloaded a batch of games and every time the speed fluctuates a lot.

About the other question: uninterrupted first download (I'd say interrupted but I uninstalled the game before it ended, deleted the cache and restarted to see whether or not the speed would show any improvement)

[MancSoulja]

That mean's you're probably I/O limited when downloading from Steam.

[Pvt. Parts]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

That mean's you're probably I/O limited when downloading from Steam.

lmao I didn't even know that was possible. Any workarounds to get rid of that?

[nullable]

Originally posted by Medic Enjoyer:

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

That mean's you're probably I/O limited when downloading from Steam.

lmao I didn't even know that was possible. Any workarounds to get rid of that?

First you would want to diagnose that your disk speed is the issue. If it is, get a faster disk. If it's not, move on to the next thing to test.

[Pvt. Parts]

Originally posted by Snakub Plissken:

Originally posted by Medic Enjoyer:

lmao I didn't even know that was possible. Any workarounds to get rid of that?

First you would want to diagnose that your disk speed is the issue. If it is, get a faster disk. If it's not, move on to the next thing to test.

As I said, Epic Games uses my whole internet bandwidth to download. Is this enough to decide whether or not my disk speed is the issue?

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Medic Enjoyer:

Originally posted by Snakub Plissken:

First you would want to diagnose that your disk speed is the issue. If it is, get a faster disk. If it's not, move on to the next thing to test.

As I said, Epic Games uses my whole internet bandwidth to download. Is this enough to decide whether or not my disk speed is the issue?

Well, have you checked in safe mode?

[Muppet among Puppets]

Each time i open the client window of epic it feels like its loading it from the internet.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Each time i open the client window of epic it feels like its loading it from the internet.

That's because it is

Epic loads pretty much everything from the internet.

That means if the Epic store goes down, so does your library. How do I know? Because the Epic store went into a bit of a tizzy during the sale. Guess what didn't load. my library. Again not the store page, which is again annoying that you cannot default the opening of hte client to your library, but the library itself does not load if the Epic store is down.

But don't worry you can "Enable offline mode browsing" in the settings

Which you cant get to

Because the Epic store is down so the entire UI doesnt load........


Do this test

1) Launch the Epic client
2) Go to your network settings and disable your network adapter
3) go back to the epic client and try to load your library by clicking the "Library' button

Your library won't load. I fyou're lucky the sidebar QuickLaunch will still show 'something'

Note that you can't go to settings because the entire UI elements for that are *poof* gone. Since its under your username in the upper right, which is no longer there because you're not online.


I mean Steam's offline mode isn't perfect and may not get enabled when you need it, but even during steam sales when the store page is a smoking hole in the ground, at least your library loads properly and you can play games.