I’m trying to support GOG by buying some games for my Steam Deck (my only gaming pc), but the downloads through Heroic are really slow compared to Steam.

Since you can’t do any background downliading on Heroic on the Deck, I tried downloading the games on my desktop PC through Heroic and importing them on the Deck. Still it’s really slow…

Downloading directly on GOG is also really slow, so I wondered how you were doing it since I can’t have a 40gb game taking 5 hours to download.

Especially because turning off the Deck or my weak computer means starting from scratch again.

I’m on Linux for everything by the way.

How do you manage this?

  • moody@lemmings.world
    14·
    12 hours ago

    How slow are we talking? All my GOG downloads through Heroic have always been as fast as my connection allows. It sounds like there may be another issue at play.

    Is there a VPN involved?

    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.worksOP
      5·
      11 hours ago

      Around 0.5 MB/s through heroic and 250 kb/s thrrough Firefox from the GOG website.

      But my connection is way faster with everything else…

      • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        9·
        10 hours ago

        Yeah that’s abnormal and not what everyone else experiences. Idk what’s wrong and can’t give you any suggestions, but you should be getting better speeds than that. I can download Cyberpunk 2077 off of GOG in a few minutes.