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Apr 28 2020 02:17pm
Quote (Caulder10 @ Apr 28 2020 12:00pm)
this

unless you need to be the first one on the servers (which usually aren't stable for 2-3 hours anyway) at the start of a league there is no real issue.
patches thru steam are twice the size of standalone and because of the way steam and ggg update it has to pre-allocate for awhile as well, some people report this taking a very long time. its never been an issue for me.

that being said the only real bonus to steam is 1. you can use your steam wallet to purchase mtx/tabs etc and 2. you can track your total hours.


only problem is when they release small patches, even an ssd takes forever to patch for no reason, when standard client takes less than 60 seconds.

Don't get unlimited time to play, well before covid shit, so when it took 20 mins to update that was a good chunk of my time to play and sometimes they throw out updates 2 days in a row.

This post was edited by ISellLeagueBoosts on Apr 28 2020 02:18pm
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Apr 28 2020 02:30pm
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only problem is when they release small patches, even an ssd takes forever to patch for no reason, when standard client takes less than 60 seconds.

Don't get unlimited time to play, well before covid shit, so when it took 20 mins to update that was a good chunk of my time to play and sometimes they throw out updates 2 days in a row.


yeah those are the issues I don't have
takes less than 2 minutes to pre-allocate for me

not sure why some people have such long times
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Apr 28 2020 02:31pm
Quote (Caulder10 @ Apr 28 2020 03:30pm)
yeah those are the issues I don't have
takes less than 2 minutes to pre-allocate for me

not sure why some people have such long times


yeah ive read about people having less time to pre-allocate but idk, i've used my original rig, a laptop, and my new setup with all being slow af =[

ssd on both setups just not on laptop.

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I start in client. But nice game . 70 lv and act 10 .
I have many to learn about evrything in game :)
Duellist earthquake. I find this bulid on poe forum ;)
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Quote (Cedvin @ 25 Apr 2020 02:06)
any diffrents :D ?


Steam Client uses 27% more CPU ,and the latency is roughly Example 87 norm, and 127 steam.
I highly recommend normal client, there are also situations where steam client will crash due to steam server issues.
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Quote (conetopia @ Apr 30 2020 04:26am)
Steam Client uses 27% more CPU ,and the latency is roughly Example 87 norm, and 127 steam.
I highly recommend normal client, there are also situations where steam client will crash due to steam server issues.


have never had a steam server issue cause me to crash in 7 years of playing this game.

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