Taking a look at Steam's download and preload system · SteamDB

Steam Pre-Load is live! : r/ForzaHorizon

Disk usage does not show its value when preloading a game · Issue #7261 · ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux · GitHub

Starfield is ready to preload on Steam! : r/Starfield

How does preloading on Steam work? Does it start downloading the game automatically when it officially releases? Or do I still have to manually download it? - Quora

Steam downloads too many shader pre-caching updates, and they are not small : r/SteamDeck

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