Steam patent reveals a great improvement

A digital copy is a readily dispersed computer system data including a media product such as a film or songs cd. The term contrasts this computer documents with the physical duplicate (usually a DVD, Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray 3D, or 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray disc) with which the digital copy is normally offered as component of a package. It allows the disc s purchaser to acquire a solitary duplicate of the film on electronic tool such as a desktop computer, smartphone, tablet computer, or digital media player, and view it on those gadgets without calling for access to the physical media. Digital copy is likewise frequently described as Digital HD (where it is referencing a high-definition or UHD digital copy).

One of the biggest inconveniences of the current games, is that no matter if you have a physical or digital copy, you have to wait for a download to be completed. Fortunately, from the past generation, the PlayStation and Xbox consoles do not allow you to enjoy certain sections of a prior degree that this process will end. This is also now available on platforms such as Origin and Battle.net, and now it has revealed Questeam could have this function in the future.

According to a new patent, Steam would be looking for a way to implement a technology that allows us to enjoy a certain game while it is installed on the PC . To achieve this, the server would collect certain data to create a map and thus prioritize some files or others when downloading a certain title. This was what is discussed in the document about it:

This telemetry-based approach allows a remote system to collect access data by multiple client machines, catalog the access data according to the configuration of the client s system and analyze the information to generate data usable by client machines To implement several functions related to games, including, without limitations, the instantaneous execution of the video games, discarding the unused data blocks to release resources from the memory, or the local data preload to reduce latency during the game .

This patent was recorded in March 2020, but it was not until a couple of days ago that the information became public. As always, This type of documents are not a guarantee that something comes true , and usually are used to protect certain intellectual property. Hopefully this is not the case, and Steam finally allows us to enjoy certain games while they are downloading.

On related topics, not all Steam games will be compatible with Steam Deck. Similarly, these consoles are almost arriving at developers.

Via: Pavel Djundik