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?
Well I have only rebooted the Deck, but it also happens on my Linux pc’s.
And downloading Playstation games, Steam games, watching Peertube, watching Nba league pass, watching youtube or listening to music on Tidal works fine.
Directly from GOG or through Heroic, I got these really slow download speeds, so it’s an isolated case.
Edit: after a network test, here’s what I’m getting
24mbs is the max you’ll see in a good day, your speed is pretty slow compared to most. Also you probably wouldn’t get the 24mbs downloading through most services.
To give you a comparison, at one point I had gig internet but still would download at only a few hundred mps. Im currently on 700mps and share that connection with a household streaming everything, and have dropped to 50-100mps for a lot of downloads. You could be seeing 1-5 mbs downloads on that connection which is painfully slow.