Now keep in mind this update obviously won’t benefit Steam Deck users, as the Deck can’t make use of these features. Cyberpunk 2077 got a DLSS 3/Reflex patch just a few days ago.

Now let’s talk about games that are already installed, but have an update available. Whereas “downloading it from scratch” took just over an hour. Altogether, Steam Deck Gaming reports it took over two hours to install a pre-loaded game. Verifying took close to an additional 40 minutes.

On Deck, there was still about an hour left of unpacking to do.Īs if that wasn’t bad enough, the Deck had to go through the verification phase after the game was unpacked. On desktop, it took 25 minutes to unpack the game, unlike the six-minute claim that Steam reported. Try to process how long that would take for unpacking 122 GB’ worth of content. Steam Deck Gaming just uploaded a video, noting that “this problem is really starting to get to me.” Unpacking Forspoken is only operating at 6 KB/s. If you’ve ever noticed the Deck downloading huge updates for your games out of nowhere, know that you’re not the only one having to deal with downtime.

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