The download process seems to be more demanding now
My PC now sounds like a jet engine, which didn't happen before when downloading games with Steam. Has the method for downloading/installing games changed?
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It is, recently, when a new update is downloading, I cannot watch Vids on Steam at the same time and even the Store is lagging.
Last edited by TheStoryteller01; 23 Aug @ 12:44pm
aiusepsi 23 Aug @ 1:01pm 
The only difference I'm aware of is they changed the compression algorithm from LZMA to zstd for new content / updates (things uploaded to Steam by developers before the change remain compressed with LZMA).

The reason for this change is that zstd uses less CPU time to decompress data compared to LZMA. Or, to put it another way, with a fixed amount of CPU time, zstd will decompress more data.

One possible outcome of this is that if your downloads used to be CPU-bound, they may well not be any more, and something else might now be the bottleneck, like your disk or your internet connection.
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