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omfg 1000th post
I fail to see the point of the steam backup option
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What kinda connection are you on? Very few people have ~200MBit/s connections at home, and even those that do rarely manage those kinda speeds over the internet. Theres very few people with residential connections who can download that much in an hour. For most people thats between 2 and 10 hours of downloading.
Besides you'd be lucky to get anything close to that on steam, I managed 400MBit/s once during a quiet period but generally it caps out at around 70MBit/s if your lucky and about 5Mbit/s during peak times.
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Probably because some of the other games where being auto-updated in the background whiilst you were playing before you reinstalled. I'm not sure if the Steam client is clever enough to suspend auto-updating if you launch a game. I'm sure it does but I've never checked it myself.
I'm dubious of that. Even if you had a fast enough connection, steam wouldn't kick out that sort of bandwidth to one user.
what was the game?
if it was CS/css that's because the default rates which you would have after a reinstall are terrible.
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It is. Steam automatically pauses all patches, updates or new games downloading in the background whenever you load up a game, even if its singleplayer. You can turn them back on yourself, and doing so then complaining would be stupid
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I guess you are on 50MB/s broadband, I only get 150KB/s. I assume you can do the maths
Also like hell steam gives you max speeds all the time, I get about 2-3 MB/s on my 50meg sometimes dropping to 200kb/s or something stupid can get max speeds elsewhere, good for cs where you want to back up config and maps etc.
Oh yeah and it loves making my router crash, virgin and steam piling on the &&&&.
Oh yeah and it loves making my router crash, virgin and steam piling on the &&&&.
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Not everyone lives in big cities with 12mb+ broadband.
4-6mb here, with a 50gb per month download limit. Pretty easy to see why backing up is a useful feature.
4-6mb here, with a 50gb per month download limit. Pretty easy to see why backing up is a useful feature.
Just remember all, that most people in this forum are tech savvy and know that you can just copy the steam folder over. I've done it a number of times when replacing HDD etc.
But not everyone is as clever as us
Some people still want to be hand held through everything and seeing a simple. Back Up Local link is just what they need. They don't want the hassle of opening windows explorer etc.
Taff
But not everyone is as clever as us
Some people still want to be hand held through everything and seeing a simple. Back Up Local link is just what they need. They don't want the hassle of opening windows explorer etc.
Taff
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I think the OP is referring to the inbuilt backup feature, rather than backing up manually by copying the folder. The backup utility takes ages in comparison to copy and pasting the folder.
The only advantage I can see is that it allows you to split the backup into chunks.
The only advantage I can see is that it allows you to split the backup into chunks.
Because if you me for instance and ive just reinstalled windows and i now need to install my 37 steam games thats a lot of data.
Im also with BT so im limited to 100GB per month on the highest package so i could quite easily go over that threshold.