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What is the actual technical purpose of background decompression during a Steam game download, and why does my home computer processor work so hard while installing large games?
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What is the actual technical purpose of background decompression during a Steam game download, and why does my home computer processor work so hard while installing large games?
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Steam download installation decompression CPU SteamPipe content system compression chunks patching documentationGoogle ↗
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Steam download installation decompression CPU SteamPipe content system compression chunks patching documentation Google ↗
- Uploading to Steam (Steamworks Documentation) · partner.steamgames.com
- High CPU usage when download · Issue #6684 · ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux · github.com