Is there anyway to download more than 1 game at once ?

[River]

I have Fiber so want to take full advantage of it.

[MancSoulja]

Steam's downloads are too I/0 heavy for simultaneous downloads.

[_I_]

use another pc, then copy game to it using lan

[76561198343548661]

Mine are queued and the download starts when the previous ends . I have 300Mbit/s and the download uses the full potential . In fact 270Mbit/s.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Also what I do is, let's say have stuff in the downloads queue. Pause all download and X them all out. Then start with the largest download and click Start for its download, then do this for every available download, largest to smallest. This way in the end it will start downloading the smallest first ones first.

Same with installing a bunch of games

[Sikobae]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Steam's downloads are too I/0 heavy for simultaneous downloads.

Steam used to already have simultaneous downloads during the single-core/hard drive days when HL2 Ep1 was still considered new.

And your response is that modern thousand-core ramdisks can't handle it?

[x]

mathematically it makes no difference downloading 5 games one at a time or 5 games at the same time. Youre limited by your download speed and how many gb the games total.

Also youd probably be more CPU limited or drive speed if it were possible to do 5 at the same time

[Supafly]

Even if you could download more than one you'd still be getting the same speed down.

1 game download = 100 MB/s
2 game download = 50 MB/s as speed is split

Then the is the fact downloads are compressed and once a chunk is down it gets unpacked/installed. All that requires CPU and drive use and could limit downloading speeds while that happens.

If you have a HDD is possible when 1 chunk is getting unpacked/installed for the DL speeds to drop and even stop. If your downloading 2 games at once chunk for Game is being installed and downloads for both games stop. 2 seconds after speeds pick up a chunk for the other game completes and your back to downloads slowing/stopping whilst that gets decompressed and installed

[Gökyüzü]

Steam can download one game at full capacity to first limit is your internet speed second limit is your ssd or hdd speed. Which ever is the lowest you are gona be able to download at that speed.

Originally posted by average cs enjoyer:

mathematically it makes no difference downloading 5 games one at a time or 5 games at the same time. Youre limited by your download speed and how many gb the games total.

Also youd probably be more CPU limited or drive speed if it were possible to do 5 at the same time

Exacly like this guy said

[Cathulhu]

Originally posted by average cs enjoyer:

mathematically it makes no difference downloading 5 games one at a time or 5 games at the same time. Youre limited by your download speed and how many gb the games total.

Also youd probably be more CPU limited or drive speed if it were possible to do 5 at the same time

Then add this to your math, OVERHEAD. In fact you will reduce the total amount of download data banwidth availabke by adding more overhead traffic into the mix.

[Lord Flashheart]

Originally posted by gamer:

I have Fiber so want to take full advantage of it.

Maybe multiple machines downloading games.
It is basically what I do.
One actual machine and one virtual machine in a server, downloading to my games backup.
Also I have this in the server: https://lancache.net/
It is installed an another virtual machine.

I think steam also has options to download from other PCs on the same local network.

It is a much less expensive option than a fibre connection, well where I Iive anyway.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes you'd actually slow it down further if it could download multiple at once. Like he said, overhead.

Rearrange the queue so the smallest ones download first to get those out of the way and allow you to start to launch them if needed. If it's a single player game you wish to load up, you can allow downloads during gameplay in Steam settings so your other queued items can download in the background. However you want that disabled if loading up an online MP game.

[emoticorpse]

What speed are you downloading at now through Steam?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

^ This

Probably just need a faster speed plan; if available.

Even on 150-200Mbps download it takes maybe 30-40 minutes to download an 80GB game.

So yea maybe look into getting something faster.

Also take the time to spread out your downloads.

If you are completing a new build for example and need to redownload your games, it's not realistic to be able to install all the games you want on the system in 1 day.

Download a game, run it and start enjoying what you have on your Steam account. When it's time for bed, start the install of a game, once its in the download progress area, pause it and X it out to throw it down into the queue. Do that for a bunch of games. When ready to call it a night, click start on everything in the queue. Then it will download all night long.