Can you start games before it's fully finished downloading?

[86TMH]

Not sure if i remember that being a thing or not.

[Emilio]

Thats not a thing, you have to wait until it's finished 100%. I believe Sony are the only ones that does that with the playstation 4.

[Kris]

Originally posted by Emilio:

Thats not a thing, you have to wait until it's finished 100%. I believe Sony are the only ones that does that with the playstation 4.

You can on Xbox One as well.

[Emilio]

Originally posted by Kristee:

Originally posted by Emilio:

Thats not a thing, you have to wait until it's finished 100%. I believe Sony are the only ones that does that with the playstation 4.

You can on Xbox One as well.

My mistake then, i don't know much about the Xbox one.

[86TMH]

Originally posted by Emilio:

Thats not a thing, you have to wait until it's finished 100%. I believe Sony are the only ones that does that with the playstation 4.

It may have been Uplay i was thinking of. I remember launching a game on PC with 80% downloaded or something. Would be a nice feature to add to Steam

[86TMH]

Originally posted by dANNEboy:

Nah it wouldn't be, especially on pc.

It wouldn't be a nice feature to play a game before it's fully downloaded? You have more patience than me my friend ;)

[Flint&Steel!]

They let you do that on orgin but you cant play online only campaign.

[ATA ATAK]

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[mellow]

how does that even work????

[86TMH]

Originally posted by an lol mellow|merry christmasp:

how does that even work????

If it has a single player campaign, it lets you play the levels already installed while the rest of the game downloads. Wouldn't work with some games but i played most of BF1's campaign before the game had fully downloaded. It's great if you're stuck with a crappy internet speed

[mellow]

Originally posted by 86themadhatter:

Originally posted by an lol mellow|merry christmasp:

how does that even work????

If it has a single player campaign, it lets you play the levels already installed while the rest of the game downloads. Wouldn't work with some games but i played most of BF1's campaign before the game had fully downloaded. It's great if you're stuck with a crappy internet speed

o cool

[YT Bagiaadis]

its a thing now in 2019 *cough* old guy

[Black-Dog1968]

Originally posted by Emilio:

Thats not a thing, you have to wait until it's finished 100%. I believe Sony are the only ones that does that with the playstation 4.

In origin you can start play before its finished

[HLCinSC]

Steam actually tried it with MKX, but it didn't go well and I don't think they ever tried again.

I think Battlenet does it too with some games. I think with Starcraft 2 it had actually 3 stages, it downloaded the low res assets first to become "playable" and then it proceeded to download until it reached "optimal" which I think was probably high res assets/audio for the early game campaign, and then it would download until finished.

Edit: I checked myself https://imgur.com/a/mY8vAyt

[Nguyễn Văn Pót Mà-Lôn]

nawh u cant

[exb0xthreesixty]

you can on xbox game pass for pc with the newer games only. maybe steam will jump on board soon