It is very common that there are users with more than one device from which they connect to play: a desktop PC to enjoy the beast with the best possible quality from the comfort of a good armchair player; another laptop for when we go on a trip or in the office itself at lunchtime; and of course, those who have taken the step of buy a steam deck to enjoy anywhere.
What will Steam do?
In all these cases we have to download the games locally and, depending on the title, we could spend many hours downloading and downloading if our internet access is limited. Having to download the 147 gigabytes of a Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
Well, for now let’s hope, because Steam seems to have us in their thoughts since he started working on a new function that will help a lot for users whose connection does not allow them to download several gigabytes in a few minutes. This, therefore, is going to allow us to move more quickly each installation of the game that we have on one PC to another more easily. Even on a Steam Deck. And how do you think he’s going to do it?
Valve is apparently working on peer-to-peer Steam downloads over LAN. https://t.co/o6fXYo7gHK
October 27, 2022 • 8:29 p.m.
It was engineer Pavel Djundik who posted an important discovery on Twitter, since he believes he has found a function that is hiding in the latest Steam beta and claims that it is some kind P2P system (equals) via a local network that This will allow the two machines to communicate and send data much faster which are part of any game already installed in one of them. In other words, to set up a kind of eMule at home (for those who remember it) which does not need to leave the framework of our LAN.
Faster, more efficient and without internet data
This curious system would create a kind of server equipment and another receiver which is the one that connects to receive the data packets without even needing to have an Internet connection. For now, this function is present in the beta version
Do not exclude that this function has a lot to do with Steam Deck, the PC consolidated from Valve which it put on sale in March 2022 and which requires much longer download processes than those suffered by other competing devices such as Nintendo Switch, where its developments barely occupy 6 or 7 gigabytes on average in these AAA that they come from time to time. Something wrong with the American machine where the usual thing is to find 10 times more data.
For now you have to wait for Steam to release this feature but if you dare to try with the community to see if it works, you have plenty of forums fuming right now.
