Game servers purposefully slow on Lutris downloads

[RabidPedagog]

Well, it looks like the corporations want to discourage you from using a
compatibility layer to play games. In trying to download Cyberpunk 2077
through Lutris yesterday, I was forced to endure a download speed
ranging from 1Mb to 10Mbps. This is despite the fact that I have a
1.5Gbps connection and that my wireless around the house runs no slower
than around 450Mbps no matter where you are. It took me hours to
download it, and I was treated to an eventual "source file corrupted"
issue which prevented me from getting it installed.

Why do corporations do such things? Who are we hurting in trying to play
the game somewhere other than Windows?

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Fuck Windows.

[RabidPedagog]

Nevermind, it looks like GOG's servers are just ridiculously slow in
general.

[DFS]

But before you find that out, always blame Microsoft for slowing down
the Internet to make it more difficult to play a game on Linux.

Unbelievable. Are you Linux lusers born or bred?

[RabidPedagog]

I didn't blame Microsoft; I blamed the corporations, in this case GOG.
However, it seems to be a known problem with GOG, so they weren't
detecting that it was Lutris downloading the content rather than their
own Galaxy application.

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Matthew 24:5

[rbowman]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:57:04 -0500, RabidPedagog wrote:

> Why do corporations do such things? Who are we hurting in trying to play
> the game somewhere other than Windows?

In this case it sounds like inadequate servers but always follow the
Franklins. In the ongoing Google trial a peon blurted out that not only
does Google pay tp have their search engine on Apple devices but Apple
siphons off 36% of the ad revenue generated by the search engine. Best
guesses are billions are changing hands.

[RonB]

Maybe the servers were slow due to heavy usage?

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[RonB]

On 2023-11-14, RabidPedagog <ra...@pedag.og> wrote:

They probably seriously need a server upgrade. The one game file I
downloaded was huge (almost 50 GBs). I don't know specifically what server I
was using, I just downloaded it from Steam, but that could just be a
front-end to a different server.

[Borax Man]

On 2023-11-14, RabidPedagog <ra...@pedag.og> wrote:

I've had some shockingly slow download speeds from GOG, we are talking
DSL speeds at best, sometimes slower. But other days its pretty fast.

[RabidPedagog]

On 2023-11-14 6:15 p.m., RonB wrote:
> On 2023-11-14, RabidPedagog <ra...@pedag.og> wrote:
>> Well, it looks like the corporations want to discourage you from using a
>> compatibility layer to play games. In trying to download Cyberpunk 2077
>> through Lutris yesterday, I was forced to endure a download speed
>> ranging from 1Mb to 10Mbps. This is despite the fact that I have a
>> 1.5Gbps connection and that my wireless around the house runs no slower
>> than around 450Mbps no matter where you are. It took me hours to
>> download it, and I was treated to an eventual "source file corrupted"
>> issue which prevented me from getting it installed.
>>
>> Why do corporations do such things? Who are we hurting in trying to play
>> the game somewhere other than Windows?
>
> Maybe the servers were slow due to heavy usage?

Nope, my original guess was correct. They are slowing down transfers
through Lutris and allowing full speed through GOG in Windows. I just
tried it in Windows 11 (and figured out what was really causing the
sound issue) and was able to install the 100GB game in about 30 minutes.
They are setting Linux and gaming through Linux for failure.

[RabidPedagog]

So far, it has not once been slow in Windows. There was a point where
their servers were screwed up for a day, but speeds were never affected.
Only through Lutris have I ever had slowdowns. However, since other
people complained about speeds there, even through Windows, I'll just
assume that this was merely a coincidence.

[RonB]

Sorry to hear that. I'm guessing you posted what was causing the sound issue
elsewhere.

[DFS]

First it was Microsoft/"corporations" trying to screw everyone over in
favor of Windows:

"it looks like the corporations want to discourage you from using a

compatibility layer to play games... It took me hours to download it...

Why do corporations do such things? Who are we hurting in trying to play
the game somewhere other than Windows?"

Then it wasn't:

"Nevermind, it looks like GOG's servers are just ridiculously slow in
general."

Then it was again:

"They are slowing down transfers through Lutris and allowing full speed
through GOG in Windows. I just tried it in Windows 11 (and figured out
what was really causing the sound issue) and was able to install the
100GB game in about 30 minutes. They are setting Linux and gaming
through Linux for failure."

Now it's not again:

"However, since other people complained about speeds there, even through
Windows, I'll just assume that this was merely a coincidence."

Linux makes crazy crazier.

[RabidPedagog]

The facts remain that:

1) GOG is generally very fast to download games in Windows.
2) Through Lutris, downloading the same game through what is presumably
the same server never goes faster than 10MB/sec with an average of 2MB/sec.
3) People posted all over the web complaining on GOG speeds, yet:
4) On the same connection and the same computer, using GOG in Windows
once again delivers fantastic speeds.

They truly seem to be throttling the speed on Linux. I don't understand
why since GOG is the one game service which doesn't have DRM in its
games. Such things are celebrated by the people who run Linux. With that
in mind, the company has no reason to alienate Linux users not only by
throttling the speeds but by refusing to release a Linux version of
their game delivery client.

So yes, you can call me crazy. However, I invite you to try downloading
a large GOG game through Lutris yourself and show me where I am wrong.

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