Playing PC games while they download it looks like a dream, but it is looking for this Steam patent

Play your games while downloading It is not something impossible ... in consoles. From the past generation, the Xbox and PlayStation desktop consoles allow you to run partially games while the rest of the installation is completed, something that then replied clients as origin or battle.net. And now it is valve that joins fashion. The Gabe Newell company wants PC players to play their games as soon as you buy them and without any limitation, while downloading and installs the adventure. This is reflected by a new Steam patent.

Discovered by the creator of Steamdb, Pavel Djundik, Steam s new patent was recorded in March 2020, although he has not become public until this week. With the name of Instant Play , this function looks for what we have already explained: that each Steam user can play its PC games while installing . To do this, the customer will track the reading operations that the executables of the Games perform, and with those data will create a map for prioritize some files or others when downloading the game. That is, the files that are needed first will be downloaded first so that the player can start as soon as possible.

This telemetry-based approach allows a remote system collecting access data by multiple client machines, cataloging the access data in accordance with the configuration of the client system and analyze the information for generate data usable by client machines to implement various functions related to games, included, without limitations, the instant execution of video games, discarding the data blocks not used to release resources from memory, or Local data preload to reduce latency during the game, says the patent. Obviously, enjoying the game without limitations will depend on having a suitable Internet connection and the server status.

As usual, the existence of patents does not always imply that companies go to give them use. But that does not take away that, in all lights, Steam looks for its users to play their games while installing, fluently and without limitations . We remind you that the digital platform will celebrate the month that comes a new Steam Next Fest with hundreds of us available, including that of this curious mix of Zelda with Hike Short and crocodiles.