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Steam survived the onslaught of players downloading Baldur’s Gate 3The huge RPG couldn’t be pre-loaded
The huge RPG couldn’t be pre-loaded
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios
Baldur’s Gate 3came out earlier this evening. It couldn’t be pre-loaded before launch and having already installed the Early Access versionwasn’t an alternative, which means a lot of people were trying to download the 122GB RPG at the same time.Steam held up to the onslaught - mostly.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settingsBaldur’s Gate 3 was worth the wait, says Liam.Watch on YouTubeSteam makes various stats available, including bandwidth used in the past 48 hours. You can seethe Baldur’s Gate 3-shaped spikefrom the moment where bandwidth usage leapt from under 20,000Gbps (gigabits per second) to a peak of 146.3Gbps at the moment of release.At the same moment, Down Detector does showa few hundred reports of Steam outages, suggesting the store was failing to load intermittently for some. Still, the numbers are low considering 459,301 people are playingBaldur’s Gate 3right nowaccording to Steam’s stats.A Baldur’s Gate download spike. |Image credit:ValveIt’s pretty rare for Steam to have any downtime at all, and when it parts of it do go offline - as it didback in 2021- it’s not always clear why.Baldur’s Gate 3 wasn’t available to reviewers until earlier this week, which means we need more time to bash through a game that’s apparently 80+ hours long. We do have amaking-of interview with Larian, instructions onhow to get the best performance, and a look athow it runs on Steam Deck, however. Plus, our guides team have a guide onhow to move that damned scuffed rock.
Baldur’s Gate 3came out earlier this evening. It couldn’t be pre-loaded before launch and having already installed the Early Access versionwasn’t an alternative, which means a lot of people were trying to download the 122GB RPG at the same time.Steam held up to the onslaught - mostly.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settingsBaldur’s Gate 3 was worth the wait, says Liam.Watch on YouTubeSteam makes various stats available, including bandwidth used in the past 48 hours. You can seethe Baldur’s Gate 3-shaped spikefrom the moment where bandwidth usage leapt from under 20,000Gbps (gigabits per second) to a peak of 146.3Gbps at the moment of release.At the same moment, Down Detector does showa few hundred reports of Steam outages, suggesting the store was failing to load intermittently for some. Still, the numbers are low considering 459,301 people are playingBaldur’s Gate 3right nowaccording to Steam’s stats.A Baldur’s Gate download spike. |Image credit:ValveIt’s pretty rare for Steam to have any downtime at all, and when it parts of it do go offline - as it didback in 2021- it’s not always clear why.Baldur’s Gate 3 wasn’t available to reviewers until earlier this week, which means we need more time to bash through a game that’s apparently 80+ hours long. We do have amaking-of interview with Larian, instructions onhow to get the best performance, and a look athow it runs on Steam Deck, however. Plus, our guides team have a guide onhow to move that damned scuffed rock.
Baldur’s Gate 3came out earlier this evening. It couldn’t be pre-loaded before launch and having already installed the Early Access versionwasn’t an alternative, which means a lot of people were trying to download the 122GB RPG at the same time.
Steam held up to the onslaught - mostly.
To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settingsBaldur’s Gate 3 was worth the wait, says Liam.Watch on YouTube
To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings
To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings
Steam makes various stats available, including bandwidth used in the past 48 hours. You can seethe Baldur’s Gate 3-shaped spikefrom the moment where bandwidth usage leapt from under 20,000Gbps (gigabits per second) to a peak of 146.3Gbps at the moment of release.
At the same moment, Down Detector does showa few hundred reports of Steam outages, suggesting the store was failing to load intermittently for some. Still, the numbers are low considering 459,301 people are playingBaldur’s Gate 3right nowaccording to Steam’s stats.
A Baldur’s Gate download spike. |Image credit:Valve
It’s pretty rare for Steam to have any downtime at all, and when it parts of it do go offline - as it didback in 2021- it’s not always clear why.
Baldur’s Gate 3 wasn’t available to reviewers until earlier this week, which means we need more time to bash through a game that’s apparently 80+ hours long. We do have amaking-of interview with Larian, instructions onhow to get the best performance, and a look athow it runs on Steam Deck, however. Plus, our guides team have a guide onhow to move that damned scuffed rock.
