Why the very, very slow download rate? BG3 is the only game I own on GOG and I'm already really wishing I had bought it on Steam. Faster download rate for patches and GOG's unofficial "find your friends on Steam" feature doesn't even work so it's tricky to get a multiplayer game going....


EDIT -> Up to 60 MBPS now... guess someone opened the valve?

I download with 11mb/s. Restart gog

But i hate the 55GB "Patch". Its just redownlaod of the game...

I guess net providers have agreed to diminish net speed so we take their cable and 5G offers.

Yes it is. However, that was the point. You download the files again for Larian has split them into smaller chunks. That's to ensure smaller patches in the future. It's in their patch notes.

From everything I've read, multiplayer is still a long way off with BG3. It sort of works now, barely--but not really...;)

I own > 300 games on Gog and they all download fast. Your local Internet pipe has more to do with your download speed than GOG does, GOG downloads for me @ ~10Megabytes/s, 100Mbps, or so. I own games on Steam--I don't see a difference.

I don't see how anyone is getting download speeds as posted in this thread. Most of my download speeds are 4 mbps and I can download a 4gig file in slightly over 15 minutes.

internet in the US is different to Germany or France... draw a line on the map between Poland and where ever you live to see how far the patch has to travel when you download it, add in every moron sending their food images up to twiter \ facebook on the same line at that time of the day or night

Quite understood. But here in the U.S., my provider will say I have 35-50 mbps. But they allow just so much bandwidth.

Not sure I understand your statement. My Internet access is ~105Megabits/s (10-12Megabytes per second)up & down. Basically, in the US you can go as high as you are willing to pay for. I'm very slow compared with some other folks...;)

Secondly, lots of people don't understand that when one is on the Internet very often download speeds are governed by the server you are downloading from--not according to the access speeds you pay your ISP for. For instance, if you go to Nexus.com and you have a free account there, when you download a file you are governed by the Nexus servers to 1 Megabyte/s down, regardless of how fast your Internet access ISP speed is. Your ISP has no control over the servers on the Internet apart from it's own--which would be the great majority of Internet servers that your ISP does not control.

Also, even if the server--say, the GOG servers--have no caps and theoretically allow you to download at the maximum speeds you pay your ISP for--that doesn't mean you will always get that. For instance, if GOG has a super-busy day and its download servers are being hit hard, you may find your download speeds reduced by a little or a lot, depending on GOG congestion at the time. All of this is just normal on the Internet...;)

In addition to this, local LAN conditions will dramatically affect your actual speeds. A single old/bad/noisy network cable can force a 1GBPS switch to downgrade to 10MBPS for that port. Running the cable right next to power can sometimes also cause problems.

Congested wireless environments will have similar problems, as will old/outdated firmware, etc. Too many splitters on your cable line, if you're on a cable internet provider, can weaken the signal and cause corrupted traffic. There's a lot that can go wrong between where the Internet hits your house, and where it hits your computer.

I was having speed issues on one of my machines when the pandemic hit... the switch was showing 100MBPS when the NIC supported gigabit. Wireshark showed tons of retransmits, so I swapped cables. That fixed everything.